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Viral Illness
Viral illnesses include the common cold, common wart, shingles, herpes I and II, and others. While there are differences, boosting the immune system can only help prevent and/or decrease the severity of an infection.
The collected information on Coronavirus is a good start to understand and fight virus.
Coronavirus: Vitamin C and Dr. Rath’s Recommendations
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Dr. Rath worked and published papers with Linus Pauling, who championed vitamin c as an antiviral. He is one of many who are continuing Dr. Pauling’s Vitamin C’s torch. This article provides specific advise that has respectable scientific backup.
Let’s stop the virus!- Let’s end the hysteria! – Dr. Rath Health Foundation_2020_03_23
You can also look at Youtubes by Eugene Levy, MD, JD on vitamin C.
One is linked on our Youtube page here.
Vitamin D
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IMPORTANT NOTICE
This information is for educational purposes only, to facilitate quality conversations between patients and their personal physician(s). Several essential considerations are required to safely administer any protocol for an individual. This information is NOT intended to diagnose, treat or encourage self-treatment of any medical condition.
This page is under development. Working links will provide starting information. Please let us know about your interest in this page by emailing us here, and check back soon.
Vitamin D Products Comparison Table
unit conversions: Vits A, D, E, B3
Vitamin D is a hormone, not a vitamin. Hormones act as signaling molecules, which affect how cells work. Vitamin D not only influences bone formation, but immune function, other hormones (including sex and thyroid hormones) and coagulation. The RDA remains at the 1970 value of 400 IU, while most people need between 4,000 and 10,000 IU. Recently the units of vitamin D have been changed from IU’s to mcg. The pdf below shows the conversion. Recent data suggests that the best time to take vitamin D is before bedtime, as some of the activities of sleep can be enhanced by the presence of higher levels of vitamin D.
Vitamin D levels should be checked at a minimum of once a year. Primary Care Practitioners should include Vit D levels in annual preventive testing. Levels can be influenced by several factors including: gut function (fat absorption), presence of vitamins A, E and K, presence of toxins including lead (Pb), and other hormone levels.
Best Vitamin D article from Alternative Medicine Review 2005
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References
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Vitamin C, Ascorbic Acid
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Vitamins
Vitamin C and Collagen
Vitamin C and the Bowels
Vitamin C and Detoxification
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Vitamin A
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Vitamins
“Vitamin A” is actually a family of molecules that are involved in most forms of life. Plants and bacteria make beta-carotene and related molecules; animals eat beta-carotene, where it is converted by the liver to several forms of Vitamin A (retinoids).
IMPORTANT NOTICE
This information is for educational purposes only, to facilitate quality conversations between patients and their personal physician(s). Several essential considerations are required to safely administer any protocol for an individual. This information is NOT intended to diagnose, treat or encourage self-treatment of any medical condition.
Vitamin A Factoids
- Many people cannot adequately convert beta-carotene to vitamin A.
- There are conventional blood tests for Vitamin A and “Retinyl Binding Globulin.
- The concern about Vitamin A toxicity (“someone once died from eating a bear liver”) is overblown and is similar to the past concerns about Vitamin D. Most of us are deficient in many vitamins and minerals including Vitamin A. Holistic authors believe that doses of 20 – 40,000 IU are safe (and possibly essential) for most people, while doses up to 200,000 IU can be used short-term.
- The fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E and K often co-exist (such as in the liver) and are co-dependent
- Vitamin A deficiency affects night vision.
- Vitamin A deficiency in Africa is a major cause of irreversible blindness in children.
- Vitamin A deficiency has been linked to cervical dysplasia in women.
- Vitamin A is involved in gut health.
- Vitamin A is necessary for immune system defense against viruses.
- Vitamin A deficiency can look like excess especially with skin and hair.
- Vitamin A is essential for proper thyroid function.
References
Vitamin-A-from-Vitamin-K2-and-the-calcium-paradox-_Rheaume-Bleue.2012
Vitamin A metabolism– an update.2011
Induction of cellular and molecular immunomodulatory pathways by vitamin A and flavonoids.2015
Bioconversion of dietary provitamin A carotenoids to vitamin A in humans.2010
The Microbiome and Butyrate Regulate Energy Metabolism and Autophagy in the Mammalian Colon.2011
Vitamin A and the regulation of fat reserves.2003.a
Fat-Soluble Vitamins_ Clinical Indications and Current Challenges for Chroma citations.2016
Vitamin A Units Changing
10,000 IU = 3000 mcg = 3 mg
