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Make_Med_Great_Again 1 point ago +1 / -0

Yeah that's basically why I wrote this. I'm hoping someone does.

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Make_Med_Great_Again 2 points ago +2 / -0

None of the existing hypothesis line up 100% which is what makes it tricky to make a statement on any specific thing. Currently, the most evidence accumulated so far is for the climate link. Poor sanitation is a possible link too (there were early speculations linking it to the chinese using squatting toilets) but I felt that one was less likely so I did not include it in the list. The bigger issue just is that no one is doing in depth study to deduce what is exacerbating the illness.

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Make_Med_Great_Again 1 point ago +1 / -0

Yeah. We've been discussing that one a bit for the last 2 weeks. As of now I am not aware of any evidence it works, but I'm pretty sure once reports come out from any hospital it has any effect everyone is going to jump over it. My personal suspicion is that it's not going to be effective based on it's mechanism vs. the pathophysiology of COVID, but a lot is still unknown over exactly how it treats altitude sickness, so it's possible it may end up working.

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Make_Med_Great_Again 1 point ago +1 / -0

Just to be super clear, bleach (sodium hypochlorite), the main ingredient in Chlorox Wipes should never go inside the body. The only medical applications I am aware of for Bleach specifically is taking a bath in it if you have certain skin conditions (and a very small amount absorbs into the body) or a dillute solution to purify drinking water. Both of these are at low enough concentrations they are deemed to not be of significant harm. Despite this, there is good evidence to say always filter it out of our drinking water.
There just are also related chemicals that also can be used as disinfecting agents that have internal physiologic benefit at low concentrations.

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Make_Med_Great_Again 1 point ago +1 / -0

Yeah I was kind of jaw dropped he haphazardly opened the door to using this stuff for COVID, which I did not think could be done, but is basically one of the more important treatments for it.

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Make_Med_Great_Again 2 points ago +2 / -0

As best as I can tell, the 3 supplements in that category most likely to derive benefit are Zinc, Vitamin C and Vitamin D, as that effect has been shown for similar illnesses in the past. I'm not actually familiar with any research or case reports specifying which of those is the most important one (besides physicians in the field reporting that they've taken blood tests of COVID and found vitamin C to be low enough to diagnose scurvey and using that to justify the somewhat controversial practice of IV Vitamin C...scurvey is a basically a way more PC indication for Vitamin D than saying it's to cure sepsis etc), so Zinc is in this category where if I had to guess, I would say it's important to take (and I have been doing that), but I have no evidence I can cite as definitive proof of that assertion. There are tons of ideas I run into that seem plausible, but I normally avoid recommending them until I have good evidence because a lot of times something you think ends up not panning out at all in reality and there are so many ideas to share, you need to find a way to narrow down which ones you go public on (I also don't want to be a physician who gives bad advice, so I spend a lot of time to fact check each thing I say before I claim it).

For the broader question, in a lot of fields of medicine there is a very strong prejudice against using basic vitamins, so when people advocate that, especially when working within a hospital system they risk being ostracized. If that Dr. was a medical resident, especially an intern, this is more so the case. Additionally, many places in NYC have a gag order in place for physicians to speak to the media about COVID, so that could be applied here,.

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Make_Med_Great_Again 2 points ago +2 / -0

Basically, some disinfectants work by being oxidizing agents. The human body also uses oxidizing agents to conduct normal metabolism, and neutralize things inside it that it wants to get rid of. As a result, low doses of them can often have beneficial responses. I did not go into it here, but one experimental treatment that has also been explored for COVID is inhaling alcohol vapor to the lung, and most hand sanitizers are just alcohol.

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Make_Med_Great_Again 4 points ago +4 / -0

To an extent I agree with your characterization of the medical educational process, and there are a lot of financial interests that create pressures to make it be that way. The flip side of the coin is that medical education is very difficult, and unless you have highly motivated creative self directed learners, that's often the only way you can teach students to be able to reliably address a fairly complex wide range of medical conditions. I have been on a educational committee and it's much harder to do things well on the other end than it seems from looking in on the outside.

In my own experience dedicated Christians tend to be unusually excellent physicians, but harder to find in coastal cities.

Agree with your list. You might want to look into the iatrogenic, electrical, and metal contribution to this issue along with the effects of disruption to the natural body rhythmns.

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Make_Med_Great_Again 1 point ago +1 / -0

Thanks for posting this. When I heard Trump talk about this today I jumped on here to make an account to discuss this therapy. It's tremendously effective and very safe.

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Make_Med_Great_Again 2 points ago +2 / -0

That is one major trick to using it properly. You can get away with a lower blood volume as well. My personal opinion (there is some evidence to support this) is that blood will conduct light so by irradiating a small portion, it irradiates the entire system and going through more than 5-7% overdose it. I have a lot of experience with this therapy and have had very positive experiences with it.

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Make_Med_Great_Again 2 points ago +2 / -0

It has been observed that when it is combined with antibiotics, antibiotic resistant organisms become susceptiable to the antibiotics they were previously immune to.

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Make_Med_Great_Again 2 points ago +2 / -0

Also, in saying that, I need to acknowledge that I am personally very biased towards UV in the blood as it has directly helped me with a few significant health issues.

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Make_Med_Great_Again 2 points ago +2 / -0

My personal hunch is that UV is the best option, but the strongest data for COVID so far has come from Ozone, and if it continues to perform as observed, it immediately ends the whole epidemic. It would also be tremendously easy to make this therapy available in every hospital in a matter of days (whereas that might be more challenging to do for UV).

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Make_Med_Great_Again 3 points ago +3 / -0

I don't have any friends who have contacts in the government. If I did I would, and I think many leaders (especially Republican ones, but even Dems) would be willing to look into this because the money they are loosing from the shutdown is a lot more than the money they loose from upsetting the pharma lobby.

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Make_Med_Great_Again 3 points ago +3 / -0

Please see references. There are also more as well not included here. I also repeatedly specified you need a lower not higher concentration of peroxide.

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Make_Med_Great_Again 6 points ago +6 / -0

Thank you. That was a large part of why I cut most of what I could have said here out to keep it from being too long while still somewhat covering a fairly nuanced topic.

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