Good News About "Pandemic" Flu!
How to Protect Yourself and Your Family
Flu Fear Fighters
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 veggies, 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 which 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 which 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
Natural Solutions Foundation