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Get Real: no drug or vaccine will avoid a very big coronavirus epidemic

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Re: Get Real: no drug or vaccine will avoid a very big coronavirus epidemic

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It is interesting to me that people are so laser focused on test kits and vaccines. In my less than humble opinion, people should focus on improving their immune system. You can reduce the load on your immune system by not eating sugar and reducing carbs as much as you can. We also know from history and science that every plague that killed people from respiratory virus infections was due to a lack of vitamin D3 and…

Here are three negative results (all randomized controlled trials) for Vitamin D supplementation during the winter: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2019.0006... failed to show any effect on wintertime supplementation of D (using pre-registered criteria) http://www.vitaminedelft.org/files/art/ling2009.pdf "no benefit" https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2014/fo/c4fo0... "did not lower inc…

It would be no benefit to anyone that is not already deficient. [1]

[1] - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6075634/

Re: Get Real: no drug or vaccine will avoid a very big coronavirus epidemic

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It is interesting to me that people are so laser focused on test kits and vaccines. In my less than humble opinion, people should focus on improving their immune system. You can reduce the load on your immune system by not eating sugar and reducing carbs as much as you can. We also know from history and science that every plague that killed people from respiratory virus infections was due to a lack of vitamin D3 and…

> people should focus on improving their immune system Okay, but for those who cant, underlining conditions etc, what do you suggest ? This is the world we live in, and that kind of build up you're talking about that would fight off all these strains of virus' would take generations of active measures. In the meantime, I don't think it's a bad idea to develop vaccines and shots which will aid our immune system. Our b…

Everyone will eventually get one of the mutations. [1] Maybe a vaccine will cover all of them some day. In the mean time, everyone, especially those with pre-exisiting conditions should be focusing on removing burdens from their immune system (sugar, carbs, anything that spikes insulin), getting a LOT of sleep, and ensuring they are not deficient in D3, Zinc, L-Glutamine, Magnesium, well, all the essential minerals, vitamins and enzymes. I have not had a vaccine since the 1990's and I have only noticeably had the flu twice (h1n1, h3n2) and even then it just made me gassy. I went home as a courtesy to my coworkers. I have not had a cold in 15 years.

[1] - https://nextstrain.org/ncov

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