What does Dr. Tom do when he is sick?
Video Clip #1 of a Special FB Live with Dr. Tom with our Clinical Services Functional Medicine practitioners, Michelle Ross and Pooja Mahtani discuss best practices for supplementation, nutrition (foods to avoid) for a strong immune system and Dr. Tom’s own “personal” wellness protocol.
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If I get sick, what am I going to do? This is what I’m going to do: I’m going to take vitamin D – 50,000 units at a time – 50,000 units once a day for a week every single day. Let me explain why vitamin D. (This is why it’s part of the bundle to help protect you because if you get sick you would you want to bring in the big guns.)
They found four people who died in the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic buried in the Arctic tundra of an army base. They dug them up and did autopsies to find out how they died. That’s when scientists really learned about what’s called a “cytokine storm” meaning your immune system in the lungs over-respond to the perceived threat. What does that mean?
Think of the part of your immune system, called macrophages, like a high-powered rifle and the chemical bullets called cytokines kill whatever you breathed into your lungs (and they’re in other places too) They [macrophages] fire their high-powered rifle and the bullets called a cytokine to attack the bacteria, to attack the virus or whatever the lungs tell your immune system that there’s danger in the lungs.
What happened in 1918 the Spanish Flu is that the trigger on this high-powered rifle got stuck in the on position. The spring didn’t work for the trigger to pop back and so the high-powered rifle became a submachine gun. And, that’s what caused the quick development of pneumonia; the inflammation that occurred around the overactivity of the macrophages trying to protect you.
That’s why, during the1918 pandemic, so many young people with strong immune systems, went to work in the morning but they never came home. That happened to a lot of people during the 1918 Spanish Flu.
The spring on the trigger of your macrophages is completely controlled by vitamin D. This is why I take a high dose of Vitamin D.
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