Posted on 08/06/2017 12:22:05 PM PDT by BenLurkin
It killed 3-5% of the world’s population in one year
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic
Get plenty of sunshine or take vitamin D3 supplements. You will not get any such virii should they come close.
I have been taking 10k units daily for about 12 years. Wife 5k and three kids 5k in that time and among us there have been 0- that’s no, zero, virus or colds. Wife and I both started when we were very sick with, not H1N1 but one that was laying low much of the town for 2 to 4 weeks. We started with the formula of 900 units per pound of body weight in one dose. Both of us were quite free of it and feeling good 8-10 hours later. I make sure the widows at church have a three month supply of D3 @ 5000day every fall. They stay healthy through the winter.
D3. It is easy and so far as I have seen among many people I have induced to use it, pretty much foolproof. It is a quick (8-10 hours) fix if you already have flu and a sure preventative. The avoidance techniques don’t hurt either but, as we all know from living, are not foolproof.
So simple and so amazing. Many doctors never mention it. True flu and virus prevention.
Also, I have been getting IVs with vitamins and minerals and trace minerals since I had surgery. EVERYONE having surgery or even bad injuries should get these nutrients in their IV if they can take nutrients by mouth. But no one ever does in hospitals. Don’t we want our bodies in TOP shape to heal well?
Stomach flu in the house or school or office? Probiotic liquid (say, from fermented vegetables like pickles or real sauerkraut - not vinegared), even a teaspoon, might prevent you or your child from coming down with it. Adults might also pop a real probiotic capsule.
Glad you care for the widows at your church whose docs are NOT telling them about the benefits of having enough D3 in their bloodstreams.
We will check into this! Have not heard of this before.
I have long been a firm believer in Vitamin D. Not just because of its direct effects against viruses, a breakdown product eroding the viral coat in serum, but it opens immune pathways against pathogens, and finally acts as an ACE inhibitor against the cytokine storm.
But it is unwise to see it as an absolute. So a much better way is a “defense in depth”.
Cutting to the chase, the last deadly outbreak of H1N1 was in Ukraine. Many of their doctors refused the idea that it was influenza, because “influenza doesn’t *do* that.” But what they were seeing were the consequences of the cytokine storm.
The described the lungs of some of the deceased as being black, like they had been burned. It was the first, unequivocal evidence of the cytokine storm as a phenomenon.
The other problem was the H1N1 Spanish flu. Unlike typical flu, it wasn’t limited to the winter months, and was just as active in summer, year around for that matter. And this is worrisome.
Typically, influenza doesn’t perform well south of the US border and in the tropics. But all that heat and humidity (as well as vitamin D generating sunlight), didn’t even slow it down.
Being active in the summer months means it is not so susceptible to Vitamin D as most flu bugs are. Sunshine is why flu and colds are largely winter phenomena. I remember living up nawth, in Michigan for a time and noticed there people talking about having “summer colds.” I suspect now it is because the sun, even in the summer is at a less direct angle and.
In Viet Nam flu is a “womens’ disease.” That’s probably because women cover themselves totally when they go outdoors. Their mamas have told them since they were babies that they must never let the sun touch their skin or they will turn black and never get a husband. Men don’t have that phobia and rarely get sick.
Wonderful for him! Must have amazing genetics.
Like George Burns at 100 smoking and drinking, and people asking him what his doctor said about that. “Oh, him? He died twenty years ago!”
Yes, I agree with the more sun = more Vitamin D = less flu, in *typical* flu. However, “killer flu” seems to be far less affected by Vitamin D, at least enough to be of concern.
Just today, a newspaper article:
Drink black tea and red wine to limit flu symptoms, researchers say
https://health.spectator.co.uk/drink-black-tea-and-red-wine-to-limit-flu-symptoms-researchers-say/
From what I know about influenza and the biome, this article is punctuated with errors, false assumptions, speculation and legitimate ignorance.
It hearkens back to a story from the days of the Spanish flu, in which sweaters made by a woman in Indiana were thought to somehow prevent infection, and she was swamped with thousands of desperate requests for her personally hand-knitted sweaters.
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