Good
News About "Pandemic" Flu!
How
to Protect Yourself
and Your Family
Flu Fear Fighters
by: Rima
E. Laibow,
MD
Worried about Avian Flu? Don't be. As a physician
and a
scientist, I want to share the best news of this flu season: You
can prevent or treat the Avian Flu (IF it develops the ability to
infect humans) easily, simply, cheaply, safely and naturally. And
I know that there are things you can do to make the problem much,
much worse. The choices are yours. Please share what you are about
to read with everyone you know. This information could save huge
numbers of lives.
Please remember, though, that this
information is not a diagnosis or a treatment plan. It is
educational material intended to help you develop your own
personalized disease prevention or treatment strategy. You might
want to consult a nutritional professional or natural physician to
help you personalize it for you and your family.
How
does the
Avian Flu do its damage? Birds (or humans if the virus mutates
spontaneously - or is mutated in a lab) die because the H5N1 virus
depletes Vitamin C stores so quickly that the cause of death
is fulminate scurvy. Scurvy is the same disease that killed
seamen on long voyages because unless we get enough Vitamin C from
our diet or our supplements, we
get sick or die. Humans cannot
make Vitamin C but we need it for a great many vital processes
including immune function and vascular integrity. This particular
type of virus uses up Vitamin C stores so quickly that the immune
system is overwhelmed and the blood vessels
loose their
structural
integrity: they leak so badly that infected animals literally
bleed to death through those damaged vessels.
Prevention?
Vitamin C: lots and lots and lots of Vitamin C. Treatment?
Lots
and lots and lots of Vitamin C.
Vitamin C is not
toxic. Under
stress (like a viral infection), your need for Vitamin C is
increased. When your body has had enough, your body will tell
you
by soft stools or diarrhea. This is not a sign of toxicity: it is
a sign that you have reached "Bowel Tolerance" (BT). Once
you get there (and it can be at 1 gram or 20 grams: your body will
tell you), cut back to 75% of the dose that represents BT for you and
keep taking that dose EVERY DAY.
Write down each of
the 4
daily doses of Vitamin C that you take each day because you will
be increasing your intake gradually until you find the amount that
you need for immune support. This dosage information is important
enough that it could literally save your life so it is worth
taking the time to record this information carefully
and stick
to
the dosing schedule precisely. If you mess up, don't quit, but do
make your best effort to stick to it.
You will start
with 1
gram per dose so for example on Day 1, suppose that you take 1000
mg (= 1 gram) of Vitamin C every 4 hours for a total of 4 grams.
On Day 2, increase the first dose to 2 grams and then take 1 gram
for your other 3 doses. (You will take 4 doses per day). On day 3,
take 2 grams for your first and second doses and 1 gram for the
remaining two doses. On Day 3, you would take 2 grams for the
first three doses and 1 gram for the next dose. You would continue
increasing your dosage in that way until your body lets you know
via your GI tract that you've reach the level you need. Now
multiply
that total daily dose by 0.75 and you've got your daily dose.
For
example, suppose you reach Bowel Tolerance at 10 doses.
Multiply by 0.75 and you now know that you need 7.5 grams of
Vitamin C a day for immune system support. You would do well to
take reasonable doses of Vitamins E and A along with Zinc and
reduced L-Glutathione since they work together with Vitamin C. How
much? That depends upon your weight, health, etc. I would also
recommend that you take a good Multivitamin along with the
preventive levels of Vitamin C described above. The Multivitamins
I recommend have so much in them that a full adult dose requires 6
capsules or tablets to get all the nutrients in. A single
multivitamin cap is just not potent enough to provide serious immune
support, no matter what the company tells you.
And I
hope it
goes without saying that the more processed foods you eat, the
more chemicals, flavors, preservatives, pesticides, sugar
and artificial sweeteners, in short the more junk you put into
your body, the more acidic your body will be and the less
resistant to viral infection it will be. So now would be a great
time to switch over to a diet rich in fruits, dark and
brightly
colored vegetables, free range animal protein and organic
everything. Those are food choices that build your immune
capacity, not bang it around.
Selenium blocks deadly
mutations
in the Avian Flu virus (J American College Nutrition 20: 384-88S,
2001; FASEB Journal 15: 1846-48, 2001; Journal Nutrition 133:
1463-67S, 2003) while elderberry syrup has been shown to be an
effective flu remedy (J International Med Research 32:132-40,
2004; Israeli Medical Assoc Journal 4:919-22, 2002; European
Cytokine Network 12:290-6, 2001; J Alternative Complement Medicine
1:361-9, 1995). Garlic is a highly effective anti viral substance
which should be part of your diet (Planta Medica
58:417-23,
1992).
Children's doses should
be titrated the
same way taking the weight of the child into account.
That
part is important: this part is even more important: at the
very first indication of anything that might be viral disease,
increase your Vitamin C immediately. DO NOT WAIT TO SEE IF THINGS
GET WORSE! INCREASE YOUR VITAMIN C TO YOUR NEW BOWEL TOLERANCE
LEVEL. That level might be very, very high. Vitamin C is not
toxic. Unlike drugs, which poison enzymes and are thus capable of
severe toxicity, nutrients, especially water soluble ones like
Vitamin C, have no meaningful level of toxicity. Your body knows
what you need. Pay close attention to it.
In the
event that
you think you may have the flu, take the amino acids l-lysine,
l-proline and l-glycine. An average size adult can take up to 3
grams of each one 4 times a day since they help prevent the
spread
of the virus in your body.
My personal regimen for
immune
health includes high dose Vitamin C and Vitamins A and E along
with zinc and L-Glutathione.
I travel with Olive
Leaf Extract,
Oil of Oregano (not to be taken by pregnant women since it can
cause abortions), goldenseal, Echinacea, curcumin (from turmeric),
probiotics, B complex, fish oil and alpha lipoic acid. I drink
organic green tea and I do not eat any sugar whatsoever.
If
you do become ill, the best thing you can do is contact a
physician who practices natural and nutritional medicine and begin
a regimen of Intravenous Vitamin C treatments (you may need
between 100 and 200 grams (not milligrams) for a short time since
the Avian Flu is so good at using up your urgently needed Vitamin
C.
Here's what not to do:
Do not
take Tamiflu
(oseltamivir). The widely touted antiviral drug (like its cousin
Relenza or zanamivir) produced drug resistant viruses in 18% of
children treated with the drug and a drug resistant strain has
been found in a Vietnamese girl treated with the drug. A
drug resistant strain would be a far more dangerous virus than one
which had not learned how to evade the drug's effect. Viruses can
not become resistant to Vitamin C.
Do not take
FluMist.
FluMist is a live virus vaccine which introduces between 10 and
100 million viruses into the nose. Those viruses are not the same
as the Avian Flu and therefore do not confer immunity
against
it
since only the identical virus could do that. FluMist is based on
last years viruses which were not effective against last year's
viruses. They are certainly not effective against the Avian Flu
virus which has not yet become infective to humans so no
vaccine exists against it in its infective form.
However,
once treated with FluMist, people shed live, infective viruses for
up to 3 weeks which can give people flu. In fact, immuno-compromised
people, nursing babies, people with eczema, HIV, taking steroids,
chemotherapy, radiation treatment (or the 60% of the American
population which is chemically immuno-suppressed) are at significant
danger if they come into contact with anyone who has been inoculated
with FluMist.
FluMist is delivered into the nostrils
by a
forceful squirt. This puts infective viruses very close to the
brain where they can pass through the thin cribiform plate at the
top of the nostrils and enter the brain. It is not known if such
treatment causes encephalitis. Only time will tell but the risk is
a serious one considering the
morbidity (sickness) and
mortality
(death) caused by encephalitis.
Each
of the three
viruses in FluMist can mutate and can cause mutations in the Avian
Flu. Those mutations can supply the Avian Flu virus as it
currently exists with the genetic sequences it needs to
become
a
pandemic virus. The FluMist live virus nasal inoculation can assist
the much feared Avian Flu virus to transform into the very pandemic
we are being told to fear.
Flu Vaccines for a
pandemic version
of the Avian Flu do not exist. The only way to make a vaccine
against a particular virus is to have the virus available and then
make a toxic brew filled with poisons (mercury, aluminum,
squalene), foreign particles (egg, chick and other
proteins)
and
contaminants (stealth viruses, etc.) That flu virus does not yet
exist, we are told. Assuming that it is not already manufactured
and waiting for release in a lab somewhere, it would be 6 months
before an Avian Flu vaccine could be ready. Vaccination with
anything
else would not help a bit with the Avian Flu strain which we are
supposedly facing disaster from.
But, assuming that
we already
had a vaccine for the right flu strain and assuming that vaccines
were safe enough to use (which I do not believe they are since
vaccines are very dangerous treatments which should be approached
with the gravest reservations) the fact is that they do not
produce immunity most of the time. We have been ballyhooed and
mislead about the efficacy and safety of vaccination.
It
is
neither efficacious nor safe. And to ask the American people
to submit to vaccinations which are infective (because they spread
live vaccines), ineffective (because they are not vaccines against
the real danger that does not exist yet and vaccines take 6 months
to make) and dangerous (disease rises sharply with vaccination)
and for which manufacturer liability is being removed is not good
medicine, good policy or good sense.
Please
safeguard your
life and that of your loved ones. Pass this information to
everyone you know so that they can delve further and make their
own choices.
And please visit www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
to sign to new Citizen's Petition which contains the Revised
Vitamin and Mineral Guideline that can make the US Codex Compliant
and preserve your rights to optimal health through nutrition. If
you have signed it before, you can sign it again since the
original Citizen's Petition has been revised.
Yours
in health
and freedom,
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical
Director
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