{"id":198,"date":"2020-04-17T13:24:54","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T13:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darachi.com\/?p=198"},"modified":"2022-08-13T15:27:04","modified_gmt":"2022-08-13T15:27:04","slug":"how-vitamin-c-and-magnesium-help-reverse-disease-and-treat-viral-infections-dr-mercola-interviews-dr-thomas-levy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darachi.com\/how-vitamin-c-and-magnesium-help-reverse-disease-and-treat-viral-infections-dr-mercola-interviews-dr-thomas-levy","title":{"rendered":"How Vitamin C and Magnesium Help Reverse Disease and Treat Viral Infections; Dr. Mercola interviews Dr. Thomas Levy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5U0BWVWeY6A\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3a5szEr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Magnesium<\/a> is my favorite supplement. I\u2019m also interested in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Orthomolecular_medicine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">orthomolecular<\/a> uses of vitamin C owing to the work of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Linus_Pauling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Linus Pauling<\/a>. Coronavirus is on my mind, as it must be on everyone else\u2019s in the middle of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this pandemic<\/a>. So I took out an hour out the other day to listen to \u201cHow Vitamin C and Magnesium Helps Reverse Disease and Treat Viral Infections\u201d [1]. Below are my notes.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Mercola and Thomas Levy start out discussing <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2xgmPdF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">vitamin C<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Vitamin C<\/h3>\n<p>Levy claims that vitamin <span style=\"color: #000000;\">C stimulates the immun<\/span>e system and suggests 6 &#8211; 12 g per day during the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"blockquote-5\">Dr. Thomas Levy:\u00a0 Well, obviously, I don&#8217;t want to minimize what the government doctors have been saying about hygiene, washing and that sort of thing that&#8217;s obviously extremely important, and I don&#8217;t want to say that it&#8217;s not, it is. However, we want to talk about what to do to best prevent getting the virus and if you eventually get the virus, how then best to approach treating it. <span style=\"background-color: #e3edfd;\">Preventing is just to stimulate your immune system as best as possible<\/span>. As I&#8217;m sure you know Vitamin C is one of the primary&#8230; I personally believe from the research and literature, <span style=\"background-color: #e3edfd;\">the primary agent that&#8217;s stimulates an arms and maximizes the potency of the immune system.<\/span> So I don&#8217;t think it can be undersold as to how important a regular dose of C&#8230; How much? Well as a general recommendation, <span style=\"background-color: #e3edfd;\">two to three grams, three or four times a day<\/span>, somewhere in that range for most people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He also suggests taking double or even triple what I\u2019d normally take of <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3efGxqp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">vitamin D<\/a>. I\u2019d normally take 5,000 IU\/day and had already doubled up to 10,000 IU\/day due to the pandemic. He further suggests zinc but does not give a dose. I take 30 mg <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3b5V0mL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">zinc picolinate<\/a> most days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"blockquote-5\">Dr. Thomas Levy: Some people will be sensitive, take less, some people can take more, but ball park, that would be the ball park. It&#8217;s very important to take Vitamin D as well. Probably somewhere along the lines of <span style=\"background-color: #e3edfd;\">10 to 15,000 units a day<\/span> at least during the time of the epidemic, later on perhaps less. A <span style=\"background-color: #e3edfd;\">good preparation of\u202fzinc<\/span> also helps arm the immune system, and any of the basic good vitamin and nutrient supplements are fine, but those are the premier ones.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Levy lists his top four supplements. I\u2019m in agreement. At least in terms of very \u201cbase\u201d supplements i.e. essential.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"blockquote-5\">&#8230; I consider <span style=\"background-color: #e3edfd;\">Vitamin C, magnesium, Vitamin D, and Vitamin K2 to be the premier, top four supplements for promoting and maintaining good health.<\/span> Mainly because they&#8217;re the primary antagonists to calcium accumulation and excess calcium inside the cell, which I might later be able to show you, I consider to be the primary pathophysiology in all disease.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mercola and Levy go off at a tangent and mention \u201chydrogen peroxide\u201d and \u201cnebulization\u201d, both of which I\u2019d never heard of. Amazon links to both products included below:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"blockquote-5\">For both prevention and treatment <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2XyjYaK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">nebulization<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2Vnjr8B\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hydrogen peroxide<\/a>. Hydrogen peroxide absolutely destroys everything on an open wound. Well, guess what? When you put a fine mist of it inside your sinuses, nose, and throat it nukes the virus there too&#8230;\u202fI don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s emphasized enough is that, even when you&#8217;re systemically ill influenza or coronavirus and you have virus in your body, the thing that&#8217;s fueling it is still an ongoing massive replication of the virus in the sinuses, nose, and throat. And when you can effectively knock that down 99% plus, as I like to say, &#8220;You lop the head off the snake.&#8221; And then the body is in great shape, especially with the support of things like Vitamin C to mop everything up&#8230;\u202fit&#8217;s the regular, over the counter, 80 cents a bottle at Walmart, three percent hydrogen peroxide [diluting the regular three percent by 50%-75%]. If you don&#8217;t mind a little discomfort, you can do the full strength.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Levy then mentions his non-pandemic use of vitamin C:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"blockquote-5\">I take usually two grams of the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2xgmPdF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">liposome encapsulated Vitamin C<\/a> a day. That\u2019s usually my Vitamin C regiment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The more affluent members of society afford themselves intravenous vitamins and minerals. Owing to coronavirus Levy says that he&#8217;s been busier than usual at the <a href=\"https:\/\/riordanclinic.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Riordan Clinic<\/a> doing such IVs. They don\u2019t seem to indicate pros of IV over say liposomal. They do get into this IV dosing discussion that I took note of:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"blockquote-5\">Dr. Joseph Mercola: What are your observations on the rate at which you can administer intravenous Vitamin C and not cause vein irritation?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"blockquote-5\">Dr. Thomas Levy:\u202f When you have a pH-balanced solution, which is usually just sodium ascorbate dissolved in water, you can have ascorbic acid dissolved in water, but buffered up with sodium bicarbonate for the same thing.WEh it&#8217;s pH 72, 73, 74 and you&#8217;re doing it into a good sized vein, and we&#8217;ve done this many, many, many times, you can give 12 grams IV push over five minutes&#8230;\u202fDr. Hunninghake at the Riordan Clinic. Especially, in light of the pandemic, this allow patients to come just spend 10 minutes or so at the clinic, get a quick IV push in between seven point five and 10 grams of C, along with magnesium and a few other things, and then they&#8217;re out the door.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"blockquote-5\">Dr. Joseph Mercola: And what&#8217;s the dosage? What&#8217;s the dosage on that with respect to the amount of bicarb you have to optimize the pH?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"blockquote-5\">Dr. Thomas Levy: I&#8217;ve used the McGaugh preparation, which is they say, &#8220;Buffered five point five or above.&#8221; So they&#8217;re never really clear, so I guess you have some preparations that are six, some are six, five, some are seven. We&#8217;ve used that without fuller buffering without any problem as well. It&#8217;s usually&#8230; There&#8217;s usually a small number of people, usually, the ladies with tinier veins, that can have the problems, but most of the time there&#8217;s no problem at all. And matter of fact, many years ago, after reading Dr. Klenner&#8217;s work, he reported that in a patient, that was&#8230; he said was dying of a toxic, I believe it was snake or insect bite, who said, &#8220;Doc, I think I&#8217;m going out.&#8221; His blood pressure was down. Well, Klenner took out, I think it was, 15 grams, full concentration, 500 milligrams per cc of Vitamin C, started the butterfly, a 20 gauge\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A discussion of measuring your blood levels of vitamin C then ensures. Levy, however, says for him it\u2019s pointless to measure:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"blockquote-5\">Dr. Joseph Mercola: Do you, I guess, gauge your therapy based on blood levels at all? It is possible to do serum levels of Vitamin C?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"blockquote-5\">Dr. Thomas Levy: Dr. Hunninghake at the clinic, they&#8217;ll do the blood levels for investigational purposes, but especially when you&#8217;re dealing with infections, everything is clinical. I mean, you basically use enough Vitamin C to get a positive clinical response, less fever, less sweating, improved blood work, et cetera. And it&#8217;s strictly clinical, empirical. So, no, I&#8217;ve never gauged a treatment on reaching a certain blood level.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mercola and Levy get into why liposomal C may be better than intravenous, leaving you wondering why administer it intravenously:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"blockquote-5\">Dr. Joseph Mercola: &#8230;if you or anyone in your clinic or researchers you&#8217;re aware of that has compared <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2xgmPdF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">liposomal Vitamin C<\/a> versus intravenous.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"blockquote-5\">Dr. Thomas Levy: We just recently did that at the Riordan Clinic. It was a small study and we were just looking at Vitamin C levels inside cells&#8230;\u202fthe IVs and the liposomes were comparable, although the <span style=\"background-color: #e3edfd;\">liposomes were better, as we would expect, with intracellular concentrations.<\/span> And in particular, in this one particular study we also looked at the effects of hydrocortisone, in particularly with the liposome C and we were looking at Vitamin C concentration inside lipocytes, the intracellular levels. And we found that the <span style=\"background-color: #e3edfd;\">presence of the hydrocortisone massively increased the amount of Vitamin C that goes inside the cell.<\/span> And this is very interesting because when you think about the fact that probably, I would think, among all prescription medicines, although it&#8217;s a natural agent as well, <span style=\"background-color: #e3edfd;\">hydrocortisone is considered your number one antiinflammatory agent.<\/span> And it&#8217;s my opinion, not\u202ffact, but opinion that the primary reason hydrocortisone is your primary antiinflammatory agent is because it exerts such a profound effect on putting Vitamin C inside the cells<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"blockquote-5\">Dr. Joseph Mercola:\u202f And that makes a lot of sense too, because it should penetrate the cellular membrane more easily and it&#8217;s&#8230; actually that&#8217;s where you need it.\u202f<span style=\"background-color: #e3edfd;\">You need it inside the cell, you don&#8217;t need it in the plasma or the interstitial area as much.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Next, they move onto magnesium.<\/p>\n<h3>Magnesium<\/h3>\n<p>Mercola promotes magnesium in his latest book \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3a3zmhJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">EMF*D: 5G, Wi-Fi &amp; Cell Phones: Hidden Harms and How to Protect Yourself<\/a>\u2019 to help mitigate the harmful effects of electromagnetic fields (EMFs) and starts with that:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"blockquote-5\">Dr. Joseph Mercola: <span style=\"background-color: #e3edfd;\">Magnesium is a calcium channel blocker,<\/span> which is one of the reasons I like it for mitigating the oxidative stress from EMF exposure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Levy adds that his four favorite supplements all decrease all-cause mortality.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"blockquote-5\">Dr. Thomas Levy:\u202f\u202f<span style=\"background-color: #e3edfd;\">Magnesium, Vitamin C, Vitamin D, and Vitamin K are so good, is they all are natural calcium antagonists,<\/span> they all help dissolve preexisting calcifications and they all help to normalize the calcium in the body, and each one, individually, decreases all cause of mortality. Decreases your chance of death from anything, which means they favorably impact every cell in the body.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>They then move onto disease, <span style=\"background-color: #e3edfd;\">focusing on calcium as a \u201ctoxic\u201d supplement.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Disease<\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"blockquote-5\">Dr. Thomas Levy:\u202f It became apparent to me and I&#8217;ve not found an exception to this yet, which is <span style=\"background-color: #e3edfd;\">every cell that is &#8220;diseased&#8221; has increased calcium levels inside the cell&#8230;<\/span>\u202fIt&#8217;s the highest levels of calcium that also result in cancer. It was also very apparent even before I began the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/34zj5jj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">magnesium book<\/a>, that magnesium was the number one calcium antagonist and general metabolic calcium function inhibitor&#8230;\u202f<span style=\"background-color: #e3edfd;\">More calcium increased your chance of death by all causes, less decreased. More magnesium decreased it, less magnesium increased it&#8230;<\/span>\u202fit becomes apparent that magnesium deficiency by itself causes many disease, but perhaps even more importantly is magnesium deficiency, if it doesn&#8217;t cause a disease, it makes all the rest of the diseases worse. Because, once again, the more calcium you get inside the cell, the more oxidative stress, the less enzymes and other biomolecules function normally&#8230;\u202fI was also very impressed with the anti-infectious nature of magnesium as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"blockquote-5\">\u2026 it turns out the even though magnesium is not an antioxidant per se, it exerts through other mechanisms a profound antioxidant effect inside cell. Largely by displacing calcium and allowing Vitamin C to accumulate and for glutathione synthesis to become optimized.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mercola gets into the biochemistry:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"blockquote-5\">Dr. Joseph Mercola: The intracellular concentration of Vitamin C is about 50,000 times lower than the extracellular. But when you get an excess amount of calcium inside the cell, it causes nitric oxide and superoxide levels to increase. And those two molecules, once they&#8217;re formed, it&#8217;s like instantaneously they form this really pernicious molecule called peroxynitrite, which is a reactive nitrogen species, an RNS, not an ROS, and it lives about nine million times longer than hydroxyl free radical. So because it lives so much longer, it can travel throughout the cell. Outside that it&#8217;s formed and into the nucleus and really cause a lot of damage, like stem cells, cell membranes, proteins, mitochondria, so it&#8230; And I think that&#8217;s the primary issue is this peroxynitrite, and it spins off carbonate free radicals, which can cause significant damage in the DNA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>They then jump back to magnesium and discuss how to measure your levels of it. Certainly the <a href=\"https:\/\/requestatest.com\/magnesium-testing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">standard magnesium blood test<\/a> is fairly useless, it\u2019s only really testing that your body can maintain a homeostasis rather than inform you of your body levels. Most magnesium is stored. Only 1% of total body magnesium is present in extracellular fluids, and only 0.3% of total body magnesium is found in serum. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/requestatest.com\/magnesium-rbc-testing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Magnesium red blood cell (RBC)<\/a>\u201d is an intracellular measurement and is normally considered far better and sufficient.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"blockquote-5\">Dr. Thomas Levy: <span style=\"background-color: #e3edfd;\">If your blood level of magnesium is low, you&#8217;re very, very, very low in magnesium throughout your body.<\/span> However, if you&#8217;re more fortunate to have a blood of magnesium that falls in the &#8220;normal range,&#8221; you&#8217;re certainly much better off than the low blood level person, but 99% of magnesium is inside the cells, and of that 95% is inside the mitochondria&#8230;\u202fmost of the time the <span style=\"background-color: #e3edfd;\">blood is just reflecting your daily intake and excretion, intake and excretion,<\/span> and if you keep a good level, and you maintain, this &#8220;normal level.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"blockquote-5\">Dr. Joseph Mercola: Do you regularly <a href=\"https:\/\/requestatest.com\/magnesium-rbc-testing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">monitor RBC magnesium levels<\/a> as a good arbiter of magnesium?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"blockquote-5\">Dr. Thomas Levy: Red blood cells don&#8217;t have <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cytoplasm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cytoplasm<\/a> and they&#8217;re not really a good reflection&#8230;\u202fif your blood level is low, you&#8217;re low. You don&#8217;t need to go any further in testing. Number two, if your blood level is &#8220;normal,&#8221; then really the next step is to go to something called it&#8217;s the&#8230; the website is <a href=\"http:\/\/exatest.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">exatest.com<\/a>, and they actually get <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sublingual_administration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sublingual<\/a> swabs and they measure <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Intracellular\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">intracellular<\/a> levels or not only magnesium, but calcium and a couple other electrolytes. [cytoplasmic levels, sublingual, cost $250-$300]<\/span><\/p>\n<p>They then turn their attention to the percentage of the population deficient in magnesium:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"blockquote-5\">Dr. Joseph Mercola: Okay, and how many people do you&#8230; or <span style=\"background-color: #e3edfd;\">percentage of the population do you believe is deficient in magnesium?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"blockquote-5\">Dr. Thomas Levy: Wow. Okay, obviously, it&#8217;s just my opinion, but I would <span style=\"background-color: #e3edfd;\">say between 80 and 90 percent.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"blockquote-5\">Dr. Joseph Mercola: Mm-hmm (affirmative), I would agree with you. Maybe even higher.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The answer is pretty much everybody and certainly everybody in ill health, from disease to migraines:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"blockquote-5\">Dr. Thomas Levy: But we still also know that just about everybody in the population with given afflictions or diseases they get better when you give them more magnesium. So in that regard it doesn&#8217;t really matter what that level ends up being if you doing something that&#8217;s therapeutic and not toxic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"blockquote-5\">Dr. Thomas Levy: Upon my review on migraine, let me say, <span style=\"background-color: #e3edfd;\">it&#8217;s my humble opinion that migraine is completely and totally a magnesium deficiency disease.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"blockquote-5\">If you are going to get intravenous vitamin C, you should make sure magnesium is added to the pack at the same time:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"blockquote-5\">Dr. Thomas Levy: One point I\u2019d like to make, you had mentioned earlier about intravenous, is the fact that I also like to tell people <span style=\"background-color: #e3edfd;\">never miss an opportunity if you get an IV for any reason at all, to have the opportunity to put magnesium in it<\/span>\u2026\u202fwe\u2019ll still routinely put 500 milligrams of magnesium in that and that still goes in in five minutes along with the Vitamin C with no problem.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>They then move onto the <span style=\"background-color: #e3edfd;\">three \u201ctoxic\u201d nutrients; calcium, copper and iron.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>\u201cToxic\u201d nutrients<\/h3>\n<p>To my surprise Levy says that we should not see any calcification of the arteries as we age:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"blockquote-5\">Dr. Thomas Levy:\u202f A lot of people and physicians think, &#8220;Oh, well, you&#8217;re old, your arteries should develop a little calcium.&#8221; No, it&#8217;s never, never, never normal to have extracellular calcifications in your body, in an organ, in a blood vessel, <span style=\"background-color: #e3edfd;\">that&#8217;s absolutely not normal&#8230;<\/span>\u202fcalcium is a bad supplement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"blockquote-5\">Mercola asks his thoughts on the <a href=\"https:\/\/podcast.hyperwellbeing.com\/episode\/003-ivor-cummins-an-engineers-guide-to-staying-alive-for-longer-preventing-disease\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Calcium Artery Score<\/a>; a test that\u2019s been gaining rapid popularity owing to <a href=\"https:\/\/podcast.hyperwellbeing.com\/guest\/ivor-cummins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ivor Cummins<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"blockquote-5\">Dr. Thomas Levy: It&#8217;s an excellent test for prognosis, long term prognosis for heart attack&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"blockquote-5\">what&#8217;s very interesting is they&#8217;ve now found that the <span style=\"background-color: #e3edfd;\">coronary artery calcium score also correlates directly with all-cause mortality.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"blockquote-1\">The higher your calcium in the coronaries, the higher your chance of death from any cause.<br \/>\n<strong>Thomas Levy<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"blockquote-5\"><span style=\"background-color: #e3edfd;\">The calcium is just the sentinel that&#8217;s indicating to you what the calcium status is throughout the rest of the body as well. So if you have high coronary calcium, you have high extracellular calcium throughout the body as well, which is why it reflects in increased all-cause mortality and not just increased cardiac mortality&#8230;<\/span>\u202f It&#8217;s one of the few tests we have that I know of, to clearly tell you if your overall supplemental nutrition healthcare regimen is working optimally. And it&#8217;s only working optimally is if you started it and you had a calcium score of a 100 and six months to a year later it&#8217;s down to 50 and two years later it&#8217;s down to zero, then that&#8217;s a good program.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mercola worries, however, about the radiation involved (think <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/scitable\/topicpage\/repairing-double-strand-dna-breaks-14432332\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">double-strand DNA breaks<\/a> etc). He suggests fasting in advance to enter a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dietdoctor.com\/achieve-ketosis-through-fasting-cummins\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ketogenic state<\/a> and to consider taking <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3ejD7Tu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hydrogen water tablets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"blockquote-5\">Dr. Joseph Mercola: <span style=\"background-color: #e3edfd;\">CAT scan is enormous levels of radiation, literally, a 100 times or more that of a chest x-ray&#8230;<\/span>\u202f should be fasting for a day or two. Why? Because when you&#8217;re fasting, you&#8217;ll be in nutritional ketosis and ketones are a profoundly effective mitigator against oxidative stress. You could take Vitamin C like Dr. Levy suggests too. You could also take <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3ejD7Tu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">molecular hydrogen<\/a>. I would take four, six, 10 tablets about a half hour before the scan, which will radically decrease your risk of this oxidative damage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>They speak of the three \u201ctoxic\u201d nutrients calcium, copper and iron, particularly focusing on the dangers of iron for most people.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"blockquote-5\">Dr. Thomas Levy:\u202f They&#8217;re certainly absolutely, without any qualification essential at lower doses for normal metabolism<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"blockquote-5\">Dr. Joseph Mercola: Yeah, so, just be really careful, but I couldn&#8217;t agree with you more on that one. For every person who benefits from iron supplementation, there&#8217;s probably 10 to 100 who are getting\u202fdangerous side effects from it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff Magnesium is my favorite supplement. I\u2019m also interested in orthomolecular uses of vitamin C owing to the work of Linus Pauling. 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