There is plenty of exciting research about the benefits of vitamin C and how it can save people from the harmful effects of the coronavirus, such as pneumonia. This video will cover some of this research.
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DOCTOR USING VITAMIN C TO FIGHT VIRUS
Long Island Doctor Using Mega-Doses of Vitamin C, Says “It Helps A Tremendous Amount”
“Dr. Andrew G. Weber, a pulmonologist and critical-care specialist affiliated with two Northwell Health facilities on Long Island, said his intensive-care patients with the coronavirus immediately receive 1,500 milligrams of intravenous vitamin C.” This is repeated three or four more times per day, which would total a daily dosage of 4,500 to 6,000 milligrams of vitamin C per day for each patient.
“The patients who received vitamin C did significantly better than those who did not get vitamin C,” Dr. Weber said. “It helps a tremendous amount, but it is not highlighted because it’s not a sexy drug.”
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Intravenous (injected) vitamin C being used in a clinical trial sponsored by the National Institutes of Health to see if the vitamin helps to fight pneumonia, one of the complications of the coronavirus.
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Coronavirus Often Leads to Pneumonia: Recent Study shows Major Benefits for Vitamin C in Fighting Pneumonia
Coronavirus often leads to pneumonia, a type of lung infection.
What became known as Covid-19, or the coronavirus, was discovered in 2019 as a cluster of pneumonia cases with an unknown cause.
Professor John Wilson, president-elect of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, reports that “almost all serious consequences of Covid-19 feature pneumonia,” according to an article in The Guardian.
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VITAMIN C FIGHTS PNEUMONIA, DECREASES HOSPITAL TIME BY A THIRD
So if we could just find something that would effectively combat pneumonia, we would have a powerful fighter against Covid-19, right?
The following excerpt is from the article “Vitamin C and Immune Function,” in the peer-reviewed journal Nutrients:
“Beneficial effects of vitamin C on recovery have been noted in pneumonia. In elderly people hospitalized because of pneumonia, who were determined to have very low vitamin C levels, administration of vitamin C reduced the respiratory symptom score in the more severe patients. In other pneumonia patients, low-dose vitamin C (0.25–0.8 g/day) reduced the hospital stay by 19% compared with no vitamin C supplementation, whereas the higher-dose group (0.5–1.6 g/day) reduced the duration by 36%”
So this article just stated that people who received between 500 milligrams and 1,600 milligrams of vitamin C per day had their hospital stay reduced by 36%, which is more than one-third!
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VITAMIN C HELPS PREVENT GETTING SICK IN THE FIRST PLACE
Let’s continue:
“Since prophylactic vitamin C administration also appears to decrease the risk of developing more serious respiratory infections, such as pneumonia, it is likely that the low vitamin C levels observed during respiratory infections are both a cause and a consequence of the disease.”
The word “prophylactic” refers to the use of vitamin C BEFORE a person is sick. So it’s saying that the use of Vitamin C before the onset of an infection may prevent the onset of the infection in the first place. It says that if people have low levels of Vitamin C, they are more likely to get the disease.
It”s estimated that 35-40% of the elderly are deficient in Vitamin C!
“Vitamin C appears to be able to both prevent and treat respiratory and systemic infections by enhancing various immune cell functions. Prophylactic prevention of infection requires dietary vitamin C intakes that provide at least adequate, if not saturating plasma levels (i.e., 100–200 mg/day), which optimize cell and tissue levels. …Ensuring adequate intake of vitamin C through the diet or via supplementation, especially in groups such as the elderly or in individuals exposed to risk factors for vitamin C insufficiency, is required for proper immune function and resistance to infections.”
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THE US GOVERNMENT APPROVED SAFE LEVELS OF VITAMIN C
“The Tolerable Upper Intake Level (UL) is the highest level of daily nutrient intake that is likely to pose no risk of adverse health effects for almost all individuals in the general population. “ The UL for Vitamin C for adults 19 years old and older is 2,000 mg. per day.
