"Also according to CDC statistics, swine flu is only approximately one-tenth as dangerous as regular seasonal flu. That's because the CDC maintains that seasonal flu kills 36,000 Americans each year (a figure that I've already pointed out is highly suspect, but that's what they claim).
But even seasonal flu is nothing to get all worked up over. Unless you're in a state of terrible health with a compromised immune system, obesity and asthma, beating seasonal flu is a no-brainer: Just nourish your body with vitamin D, zinc, superfoods and natural health supplements and let your built-in immune technology do its job. Your immune system has already saved your life countless times. It knows how to do it if you give it the right nutrition." -- "Aspirin kills 400% more people than H1N1 swine flu", Natural News
Given that the population of America is about 350 million people, about 0.1 percent die of seasonal flu yearly and about 0.01 percent died of H1N1. However, it could be the combined effect of human influenza virus (the flu) and hemophilus influenzae bacilli which is causing the deaths being reported so far in the news.
Therefore H1N1 is not deadly except when in combination with secondary infections by hemophilus influenzae and streptococcus pneumoniae bacteria.
The H1N1 virus itself is actually weaker than regular H5N1 flu. The statistics of 0.01 percent prove that the mutation of H1N1 influenza virus consisting of avian, human and swine influenza genetic material is weaker than human influenza strains consisting of either human or human and swine genetic material.
What is not weaker is the immune system when subject to H1N1 infection. The coughing of phlegm and build up of mucus is consistent with what is called the "cytokine storm" reaction to secondary infection by both hemophilus influenzae and pneumonia bacilli.
It is the reaction to these secondary infections which add risk to H1N1 infection.
To relieve symptoms of this secondary infection, Vitamin D and garlic are indicated. However, cetirizine may relieve mucus buildup in the lungs along with use of cough drops, by reducing the impact of the cytokine storm.
Vitamin D supports normal function of your immune system. It might reduce the severity of colds and flu. As well, Vitamin D supports normal inflammatory response.
Update: 20120118.1149
The difference between stomach flu and regular flu is that stomach flu does not cause fever.
NIH article on hemophilus influenzae
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2135289/pdf/7.pdf
Wikipedia article on hemophilus influenzae and interaction with streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumonia bacilli)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haemophilus_influenzae#Interaction_with_Streptococcus_pneumoniae
Cetirizine may relieve cytokine storm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cetirizine#Rhinovirus_infection
Cytokine storm explained
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytokine_storm
Difference between norwalk and influenza symptoms
http://www.ctvnews.ca/health/many-confused-by-difference-between-flu-and-stomach-flu-1.1118140
Update: 20130206.1209
Vitamin D: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_D
Update: 20130618.1848
N-acetylcysteine: Potent Influenza Protection: http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2010/may2010_N-Acetyl-Cysteine_01.htm
'H5N1 influenza, or bird flu, is a lethal and potentially pandemic infection that produces the massive release of inflammatory mediators aptly called the “cytokine storm.”Other more common forms of influenza also act by triggering massive cytokine releases that inflame vulnerable lung tissue. In early 2010, it was discovered that NAC offers dual protection against bird flu. It inhibits both virus replication and expression of pro-inflammatory molecules in cells infected with H5N1 virus, holding out the promise of effective protection in the event of a global avian flu pandemic.'
Showing posts with label influenza. Show all posts
Showing posts with label influenza. Show all posts
20091119
How I Survived the Swine Flu
For the first week of the flu, circa October 5 to October 13, I just felt depressed with mood swings i.e. neuropsychiatric affect of malaise.
Then the first symptoms started.
During October 17-20, I felt listless, achy, had a fever, lots of phlegm, and the neuropsychiatric affect mentioned above.
A week later, I decided to start taking antihistamines for the mucus build up along with one ibuprofen a day. At first I used fexofenadine for about a week, and then switched to cetirizine.
As well, I'd been taking Swiss Natural Sources High Potency Cod Liver Oil, and found the high potency garlic capsules I'd been keeping in case of a cold.
By November 12, I was over most of the symptoms. Currently the one of the symptoms I have left consist of occasional coughing, which may be related to histamine levels (allergy).
This occurred when I had a Yogen Früz slurpie, which contains a milk product. Though it might be remotely to the flu. This may also indicate a normal cough reflex due to eating certain cold foods.
Another symptom I have is a secondary infection. It consists of eustachian tube blockage in my right ear.
What appears to "fix" it is to take a garlic capsule, and bite on it to release the contents of the capsule, which then is kept in my mouth until it's absorbed into the mucus membrane lining the inside of the mouth.
So, overall it's taken about a month to get over the flu.
However, what I feel actually helped me get over the flu is the Vitamin D in the cod liver oil capsules. It also prevented the flu from weakening me, even during the time when my lungs were severely congested.
I also used cough drops for the flu, and bought some mint tea for coughs.
To sum up, here are the supplements I used to get over the flu:
Cod liver oil capsules -- improves immunity, mood, and calcium & magnesium levels at three capsules a day. - Swiss Natural Sources Hi Potency Cod Liver Oil
Garlic capsules -- relieves infections -- I take three capsules a day - the recommended dosage - according to the label - Swiss Natural Sources Triple Strength Odourless Garlic, 500 mg
Siberian ginseng -- adaptogen, acts as calmative - I take about three of these day.
Nutrilite Stress B -- after a couple weeks when I'd knocked this bottle of vitamins (super concentrated yeast tablets) off my bedroom cabinet, it got stuck behind one of the cabinet drawers. Now, I am back taking these tablets up to three times a day
Nutrilite Flex 500 - I take this product for its EPA content which is 500 mg per capsule. I take three a day, the recommended dosage. During the flu, I stopped taking this supplement since I was dosing with the garlic oil capsules and the cod liver oil capsules.
Thinning out the blood combined with the neuropsychiatric affect of the flu could be potentially harmful. So to prevent any serious complications, I try to stay in good humor. Though, I am convinced the regular intake of Vitamin D is helping stabilized my mood swings.
Mint tea -- I make myself a cup of mint tea occasionally for digestive aid and to reduce coughing.
Other supplements I take:
Centrum Select 50+ -- this is for regular maintenance of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants.
Strategic Health Muscle Recovery -- this is for joint pain and inflammation. Frankincense works well.
Yeast tablets -- I only take these as needed.
Now Super Odorless Garlic - each capsule of this product contains 50 mg of concentrated garlic extract, hawthorn extract 100 mg, hawthorn berry 250 mg, and cayenne pepper 100 mg. I don't take much of this product because of the cayenne. It should be taken twice a day, once in the morning and once before bed.
Jamison Calcium Magnesium with Vitamin D -- I take this product sparingly. 1 a day when I actually need it
Melatonin - this product helps to adjust my body clock. I take it sparingly
Products I rarely take:
goldenseal root tincture -- this is for infection. it also causes blood pressure to rise, so i rarely take it.
Milk thistle tincture -- i should take this occasionally for revitalizing my liver.
Krople zoladkowe T - Polish tincture for digestive problems
Product I take rarely
Xtreme Lean -- think of this product as a coffee substitute. the dosage is two 1500 mg capsules before breakfast and two capsules in mid afternoon. but you need to have it with lots of food. so i only use this rarely if i need an energy boost. i only use one capsule once a day because of the risks involved in taking too much of it.
For the record, I do not overdo any of the supplements I take. With supplements, I practise my Less-is-more philosophy.
As well, because I did not take the flu shot, I feel much more healthy than I would have, had I gone in for a shot.
IMHO the cod liver oil and the garlic capsules helped the most in keeping the flu from getting worse. It's doubtful that I'll be saying the same, had I gone in for my shot.
Then the first symptoms started.
During October 17-20, I felt listless, achy, had a fever, lots of phlegm, and the neuropsychiatric affect mentioned above.
A week later, I decided to start taking antihistamines for the mucus build up along with one ibuprofen a day. At first I used fexofenadine for about a week, and then switched to cetirizine.
As well, I'd been taking Swiss Natural Sources High Potency Cod Liver Oil, and found the high potency garlic capsules I'd been keeping in case of a cold.
By November 12, I was over most of the symptoms. Currently the one of the symptoms I have left consist of occasional coughing, which may be related to histamine levels (allergy).
This occurred when I had a Yogen Früz slurpie, which contains a milk product. Though it might be remotely to the flu. This may also indicate a normal cough reflex due to eating certain cold foods.
Another symptom I have is a secondary infection. It consists of eustachian tube blockage in my right ear.
What appears to "fix" it is to take a garlic capsule, and bite on it to release the contents of the capsule, which then is kept in my mouth until it's absorbed into the mucus membrane lining the inside of the mouth.
So, overall it's taken about a month to get over the flu.
However, what I feel actually helped me get over the flu is the Vitamin D in the cod liver oil capsules. It also prevented the flu from weakening me, even during the time when my lungs were severely congested.
I also used cough drops for the flu, and bought some mint tea for coughs.
To sum up, here are the supplements I used to get over the flu:
Cod liver oil capsules -- improves immunity, mood, and calcium & magnesium levels at three capsules a day. - Swiss Natural Sources Hi Potency Cod Liver Oil
Garlic capsules -- relieves infections -- I take three capsules a day - the recommended dosage - according to the label - Swiss Natural Sources Triple Strength Odourless Garlic, 500 mg
Siberian ginseng -- adaptogen, acts as calmative - I take about three of these day.
Nutrilite Stress B -- after a couple weeks when I'd knocked this bottle of vitamins (super concentrated yeast tablets) off my bedroom cabinet, it got stuck behind one of the cabinet drawers. Now, I am back taking these tablets up to three times a day
Nutrilite Flex 500 - I take this product for its EPA content which is 500 mg per capsule. I take three a day, the recommended dosage. During the flu, I stopped taking this supplement since I was dosing with the garlic oil capsules and the cod liver oil capsules.
Thinning out the blood combined with the neuropsychiatric affect of the flu could be potentially harmful. So to prevent any serious complications, I try to stay in good humor. Though, I am convinced the regular intake of Vitamin D is helping stabilized my mood swings.
Mint tea -- I make myself a cup of mint tea occasionally for digestive aid and to reduce coughing.
Other supplements I take:
Centrum Select 50+ -- this is for regular maintenance of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants.
Strategic Health Muscle Recovery -- this is for joint pain and inflammation. Frankincense works well.
Yeast tablets -- I only take these as needed.
Now Super Odorless Garlic - each capsule of this product contains 50 mg of concentrated garlic extract, hawthorn extract 100 mg, hawthorn berry 250 mg, and cayenne pepper 100 mg. I don't take much of this product because of the cayenne. It should be taken twice a day, once in the morning and once before bed.
Jamison Calcium Magnesium with Vitamin D -- I take this product sparingly. 1 a day when I actually need it
Melatonin - this product helps to adjust my body clock. I take it sparingly
Products I rarely take:
goldenseal root tincture -- this is for infection. it also causes blood pressure to rise, so i rarely take it.
Milk thistle tincture -- i should take this occasionally for revitalizing my liver.
Krople zoladkowe T - Polish tincture for digestive problems
Product I take rarely
Xtreme Lean -- think of this product as a coffee substitute. the dosage is two 1500 mg capsules before breakfast and two capsules in mid afternoon. but you need to have it with lots of food. so i only use this rarely if i need an energy boost. i only use one capsule once a day because of the risks involved in taking too much of it.
For the record, I do not overdo any of the supplements I take. With supplements, I practise my Less-is-more philosophy.
As well, because I did not take the flu shot, I feel much more healthy than I would have, had I gone in for a shot.
IMHO the cod liver oil and the garlic capsules helped the most in keeping the flu from getting worse. It's doubtful that I'll be saying the same, had I gone in for my shot.
20090818
Are Vaccines Modern Medical Quackery?
Please note I am reposting this quote from the source, because the author reflects my own sentiments. It's not my work, but is by Mike Adams of Natural News:
Even today, most doctors in both the U.S. and U.K. insist there is no link between the 1976 vaccine and GBS. They say there's "no convincing evidence" that the vaccine caused GBS. It's the same story with vaccines and autism. Instead of examining the real reasons why autism's rise almost perfectly mirrors the rise in childhood vaccinations, doctors simply dismiss any such link outright, without consideration.
Vaccines are the bedrock of the pharmaceutical industry's profit centers. Through vaccines, the drug companies can ensure generations of future profits from diseases that are promoted or worsened by vaccines: Alzheimer's, cancer, Parkinson's disease, and so on. They can also, importantly, prevent people from taking responsibility for their own immune system health.
The vaccine approach to disease prevention implies that health cannot be experienced from within and must be achieved solely through intervention that just happens to involve paying money to drug companies. It is in this way that the real harm of vaccinations isn't limited merely to those people who are paralyzed or killed by the vaccines... it also includes all those people who have been taught to delegate their immune system function to a corporation pushing dangerous chemicals for profit.
To question vaccines is to question the very foundation of western medicine, which paints people as victims requiring heroic intervention with synthetic chemicals (but only the ones that have been patented). The real harm in this medical philosophy is not merely all those people who are harmed or killed by the vaccines themselves, but in how many people are dis-empowered and taught to abandon any hope that their own bodies might be able to attain health through innate physiological wisdom.
In this way, the pharmaceutical industry has taught people to betray who they really are. They have convinced people that they are inferior biological beings who can only arise to greatness through chemical intervention. It is all a myth, of course, carefully weaved into the minds of the unaware through layer upon layer of cleverly crafted propaganda.
Its aim is to leave you nutritionally ignorant, victimized and helplessly addicted to a never-ending stream of chemical interventions justified by the invention of (mostly) fictitious diseases. That is the state of western medicine today.
Healthy people need no swine flu vaccine, nor seasonal flu shots. Ten years ago (or so), when I stopped getting flu shots and stopped allowing junk foods and pharmaceuticals into my body, my colds virtually ceased. For me today, getting sick is an ancient memory. Although I've experienced mild symptoms from time to time (usually after being in an immune-compromised state such as working too hard at a trade show), they're nothing that can't be cured by an hour of sunshine, a cup of ginger tea and a good night's rest. I haven't been floored by a cold or flu for longer than I can remember.
Swine flu is easily overcome through natural health. H1N1 is no match for a healthy, adaptable immune system that's largely free from toxic chemicals and is boosted with the intake of superfoods, herbal remedies and quality nutritional supplements.
Even today, most doctors in both the U.S. and U.K. insist there is no link between the 1976 vaccine and GBS. They say there's "no convincing evidence" that the vaccine caused GBS. It's the same story with vaccines and autism. Instead of examining the real reasons why autism's rise almost perfectly mirrors the rise in childhood vaccinations, doctors simply dismiss any such link outright, without consideration.
Vaccines are the bedrock of the pharmaceutical industry's profit centers. Through vaccines, the drug companies can ensure generations of future profits from diseases that are promoted or worsened by vaccines: Alzheimer's, cancer, Parkinson's disease, and so on. They can also, importantly, prevent people from taking responsibility for their own immune system health.
The vaccine approach to disease prevention implies that health cannot be experienced from within and must be achieved solely through intervention that just happens to involve paying money to drug companies. It is in this way that the real harm of vaccinations isn't limited merely to those people who are paralyzed or killed by the vaccines... it also includes all those people who have been taught to delegate their immune system function to a corporation pushing dangerous chemicals for profit.
To question vaccines is to question the very foundation of western medicine, which paints people as victims requiring heroic intervention with synthetic chemicals (but only the ones that have been patented). The real harm in this medical philosophy is not merely all those people who are harmed or killed by the vaccines themselves, but in how many people are dis-empowered and taught to abandon any hope that their own bodies might be able to attain health through innate physiological wisdom.
In this way, the pharmaceutical industry has taught people to betray who they really are. They have convinced people that they are inferior biological beings who can only arise to greatness through chemical intervention. It is all a myth, of course, carefully weaved into the minds of the unaware through layer upon layer of cleverly crafted propaganda.
Its aim is to leave you nutritionally ignorant, victimized and helplessly addicted to a never-ending stream of chemical interventions justified by the invention of (mostly) fictitious diseases. That is the state of western medicine today.
Healthy people need no swine flu vaccine, nor seasonal flu shots. Ten years ago (or so), when I stopped getting flu shots and stopped allowing junk foods and pharmaceuticals into my body, my colds virtually ceased. For me today, getting sick is an ancient memory. Although I've experienced mild symptoms from time to time (usually after being in an immune-compromised state such as working too hard at a trade show), they're nothing that can't be cured by an hour of sunshine, a cup of ginger tea and a good night's rest. I haven't been floored by a cold or flu for longer than I can remember.
Swine flu is easily overcome through natural health. H1N1 is no match for a healthy, adaptable immune system that's largely free from toxic chemicals and is boosted with the intake of superfoods, herbal remedies and quality nutritional supplements.
20090806
Military contractor behind pandemic H1N1 virus
DynCorp is actually behind pandemic H1N1 virus since it has access to the US-Mexican border, and outbreaks of the virus originated in Mexico.
http://www.naturalnews.com/026779_swine_flu_patents_vaccines.html
Questions no one is addressing:
1) Why are key viral vaccine patents jointly held by the NIH and a large private military contractor?
2) Given the atrocious vaccine material handling safety record of Baxter Pharmaceuticals, why did the U.S. government choose Baxter to manufacture vaccines for public consumption?
3) Why is no one talking about the African Green Monkeys who are infected, incubated and then killed for harvesting vaccine ingredients used in the swine flu vaccine?
4) Is it just coincidence that the swine flu virus (and now the Tamiflu-resistant mutation of the virus) first appeared at the U.S. / Mexico border near where DynCorp has a security presence?
5) Why would the inventors of a key vaccine technology agree to hand over ownership of the patent to a private military contractor like DynCorp?
6) Why has nobody in the mainstream media noticed any of this yet (or not bothered to report on it?)
7) How much money is DynCorp collecting on the vaccine patents due to the sudden large-scale manufacture of swine flu vaccines taking place right now?
8) Why does the U.S. government continue to do business with criminally-minded organizations and incompetent vaccine manufacturers?
http://www.naturalnews.com/026779_swine_flu_patents_vaccines.html
Questions no one is addressing:
1) Why are key viral vaccine patents jointly held by the NIH and a large private military contractor?
2) Given the atrocious vaccine material handling safety record of Baxter Pharmaceuticals, why did the U.S. government choose Baxter to manufacture vaccines for public consumption?
3) Why is no one talking about the African Green Monkeys who are infected, incubated and then killed for harvesting vaccine ingredients used in the swine flu vaccine?
4) Is it just coincidence that the swine flu virus (and now the Tamiflu-resistant mutation of the virus) first appeared at the U.S. / Mexico border near where DynCorp has a security presence?
5) Why would the inventors of a key vaccine technology agree to hand over ownership of the patent to a private military contractor like DynCorp?
6) Why has nobody in the mainstream media noticed any of this yet (or not bothered to report on it?)
7) How much money is DynCorp collecting on the vaccine patents due to the sudden large-scale manufacture of swine flu vaccines taking place right now?
8) Why does the U.S. government continue to do business with criminally-minded organizations and incompetent vaccine manufacturers?
20040316
Sambucol Product Marketing
Razeibar
"An excerpt from: How the Israelis are Secretly Curing Viral Diseases by Dr. David G. Williams. "
In Vol. 6, No. 2 of Alternatives, I briefly mentioned a product called Sambucol® (Sambucol® comes from the Latin for elderberry, which is Sambucus nigra)… I’ve been investigating Sambucol® for some time now and it is definitely something you need to be
aware of.
Sambucol® was developed by Dr. Madeleine Mumcuoglu (pronounced mum-shu-glu), who holds a Doctorate in Virology (the study of viruses). Her extract proved to be just as effective in human tests as it did in the laboratory. Since elderberries had been used in early folk medicine to treat influenza, Dr. Mumcuoglu told me she decided to channel her first research efforts in that direction. Since elderberries were known to be non-toxic, Dr. Mumcuoglu was able to test her products on actual patients in the Southern Israel flu epidemic of 1992-93.
The results were very encouraging. Within 24 hours, 20% of those patients taking Sambucol® had dramatic improvements in symptoms like fever, muscle aches and pains and coughing. By the second day, 73% were improved and by day three, 90%. In the untreated group, only 16% felt better after two days. The majority of that group took almost a week to begin feeling better. (Infect Dis April 26-30, 1994; Prague, Abstract #1271,392.) I’ve talked to numerous doctors and patients using the product and everyone I’ve interviewed so far had nothing but praise for it. Everyone agreed that if the product is taken at the first sign of flu, the problem will disappear within 24 to 48 hours…"
"An excerpt from: How the Israelis are Secretly Curing Viral Diseases by Dr. David G. Williams. "
In Vol. 6, No. 2 of Alternatives, I briefly mentioned a product called Sambucol® (Sambucol® comes from the Latin for elderberry, which is Sambucus nigra)… I’ve been investigating Sambucol® for some time now and it is definitely something you need to be
aware of.
Sambucol® was developed by Dr. Madeleine Mumcuoglu (pronounced mum-shu-glu), who holds a Doctorate in Virology (the study of viruses). Her extract proved to be just as effective in human tests as it did in the laboratory. Since elderberries had been used in early folk medicine to treat influenza, Dr. Mumcuoglu told me she decided to channel her first research efforts in that direction. Since elderberries were known to be non-toxic, Dr. Mumcuoglu was able to test her products on actual patients in the Southern Israel flu epidemic of 1992-93.
The results were very encouraging. Within 24 hours, 20% of those patients taking Sambucol® had dramatic improvements in symptoms like fever, muscle aches and pains and coughing. By the second day, 73% were improved and by day three, 90%. In the untreated group, only 16% felt better after two days. The majority of that group took almost a week to begin feeling better. (Infect Dis April 26-30, 1994; Prague, Abstract #1271,392.) I’ve talked to numerous doctors and patients using the product and everyone I’ve interviewed so far had nothing but praise for it. Everyone agreed that if the product is taken at the first sign of flu, the problem will disappear within 24 to 48 hours…"
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