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Ebola virus infection typically results in a rapidly evolving clinical syndrome
that results in death
in a week or less in a majority of the cases documented in areas of Africa, even
though the incubation period leading to clinical disease can last up to three
weeks. However, probably the main factor in determining whether a fatal outcome
is quickly seen depends on the immunocompetenceand
nutritional status of the infected individual.
Although the Ebola “panic” initiated by the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC) and other governmental health organizations in 2014
had many people wondering if they would be lucky enough to avoid infection and
“inevitable” death, it has been well-documented that individuals can have Ebola
antibodies circulating in their blood, indicating they encountered or
contracted the virus but had a completely protective immune response. This was
the case in 11 individuals working with Ebola patients in Central Africa who
were tested.
Infections rapidly leading to death seen in seemingly
well-nourished individuals can be avoided
Robert
Rowen, MD demonstrated that a protocol of ozone, vitamin
C, and a supplement containing multiple antioxidants is highly
effective in resolving (curing) clinically symptomatic, documented cases of
Ebola virus infection in Sierra Leone. The ozone was administered by direct
intravenous gas administration, rectal ozone gas insufflation, and the
ingestion of ozonated water. A daily dose of four to eight grams of vitamin C
was given, along with two tablets daily of a supplement containing thiamin,
riboflavin, selenium, N-acetyl cysteine, glutathione, lipoic acid, and an
additional small amount of vitamin C.
Chikungunya
virus produces a syndrome that is truly debilitating, with severe joint pains
that often persist for months and even years. Indeed, some individuals appear
to never completely recover from it.
In
Puerto Rico, in the middle of a very sizable Chikungunya epidemic, a physician
treated 56 patients with a single infusion of vitamin C (ascorbic acid), dosage
ranging between 25 and 50 grams, followed by a single infusion of hydrogen
peroxide (3 cc of a 3% solution in 100 cc of normal saline). 60% of the
patients reported a
dramatic reduction in pain immediatelypost-infusion, and 5 of
the patients (9%) reported complete elimination of Chikungunya virus-related
pain. This was the first report in the peer-reviewed medical literature that
applied infusions of both ascorbic acid and hydrogen peroxide in a treatment
regimen. A 20 to 25% recurrence/relapse occurred after this initial approach,
and a complete resolution of the virus was typically rendered with three
additional infusions of vitamin C (Marcial-
Vega et al., 2015).
What’s really behind the spread of most viral infections?
Currently,
treating viral syndromes such as Chikungunya involves the administration of
analgesics such as acetaminophen as the primary therapy, relying completely on
the immunocompetence of the infected individual to eventually defeat the virus
and allow recovery. Indeed, there were so many Chikungunya viral infections in
Cali, Colombia in 2015 that a “shortage” of acetaminophen developed in
hospitals and clinics throughout the city.
Furthermore,
it also needs to be emphasized that very many cases of Chikungunya virus were
transmitted in families in Cali without anyone being bitten by a mosquito,
even though it is asserted that this is the only way one can acquire this viral
infection. At least with Chikungunya, and possibly with the Zika and Dengue
fever viruses as well, it would appear that mosquitos help to spread the
infection and amplify its presence in a community but are not absolutely
required for the infections to be contracted. Certainly, Ebola virus does not
require the mosquito for transmission.
Dengue fever successfully eliminated with vitamin C
Dengue
fever appears to be similarly susceptible to vitamin C therapy. I treated one
case of hemorrhagic Dengue fever (blood in the urine) in a 15 year-old girl in
Colombia, South America with part of my own personal supplement supplies that I
had with me at the time. Specifically, I gave her about 10 packets of
liposome-encapsulated vitamin C (1,000 mg per packet) to be taken orally over
the following 48 hours. She
was completely recovered by
the time she had taken the last packet.
What should we do with the Zika virus?
The
current bogeyman that could once again ending up terrorizing the United States
and other countries around the world is the Zika virus. Since “modern” medicine
still refuses to acknowledge the many ways in which viral syndromes can be
quickly and efficiently cured the vast majority of the time, both doctors and
patients alike feel their fate lies in the hands of an arbitrary infection
until an “effective vaccine” can be produced.
Even
if fast-tracked, such a vaccine should take a good two years to be developed
and ready for administration. And there is certainly
no guarantee that
such a vaccine would be either effective or free of significant (negative) side
effects.
The
Zika virus is also generating increased concern by its reported relationship to
birth defects, particularly microcephaly, meaning a small head and small brain
have developed during the pregnancy. While there is serious doubt that this
virus is in fact wedded to this particular birth defect, the scare has already
been widely circulated, and it is unlikely that pregnant women or women seeking
to become pregnant will be put completely at ease by any information to the
contrary.
When will ‘modern’ medicine wake up to the reality of
successful treatment options?
Unlike
Ebola, Chikungunya, and Dengue, there are not yet any reported cases of Zika
virus infection being treated with ozone, vitamin C, or hydrogen peroxide.
However, it would completely defy scientific logic to think that Zika would not
be readily responsive to any or all of these anti-viral therapies. All viruses
to date that have been treated in the test tube or in the infected patient have
responded in a similar positive fashion.
What
these therapies share is an oxidant, or pro-oxidant, impact on the infecting
agent. When something, either a biomolecule or a pathogenic virus, is
sufficiently oxidized, it is rendered inactive. When enough oxidation is
inflicted, such a virus can frankly rupture and be excreted and/or assimilated
to a limited degree in other biomolecules in the body. For all intents and
purposes, this means the virus has been “killed,” although some purists do not
like such an assertion since a virus is not considered to have a life force by
itself, but only when it takes over and “infects” a living cell.
What makes vitamin C so special?
While
it has been clearly established (although remaining completely unappreciated)
that oxidative therapies (such as ozone, hydrogen peroxide, hyperbaric oxygen
therapy, and ultraviolet blood irradiation, to name the most commonly utilized)
can rapidly resolve viral (and many bacterial) infections, vitamin C is
uniquely positioned to offer so much more to the infected patient than any
other of the oxidative therapies.
While
the vitamin C molecule is only antioxidant in nature, capably of only donating
electrons (versus oxidative therapies, which oxidize, or take electrons away),
it is capable of giving its electrons to molecules that can pass them along to
hydrogen peroxide inside the pathogen or infected cell, generating the most
potent pro-oxidant molecule of all, the hydroxyl radical (Fenton reaction).
Also, by mechanisms not yet clearly defined, high enough doses of vitamin C
also appear to directly promote the production of hydrogen peroxide in the
extracellular space, which would rapidly
kill or neutralize any pathogens in those areas of the body as well.
But
what vitamin C offers that none of the other oxidant therapies offer is that it
is also the body’s most widespread and vital nutrient. While the other oxidants
are highly effective in killing pathogens, they offer nothing to help rebuild
the normal tissue and connective structures that the infection has compromised.
What do all of these viruses have in common?
Indeed,
all of the viruses discussed in this article quickly and rapidly consume local
and systemic vitamin C stores, resulting very effectively in a clinical picture
of acute scurvy. Small blood vessels are especially affected by this vitamin C
depletion, and the loss of vitamin C-dependent connective tissue integrity in
these small vessels is the reason that advanced infections with these viruses
results in hemorrhage in various areas of the body.
However,
there is certainly no need to use just vitamin C and nothing else, although it
would often take care of any acute viral infection as a monotherapy. In any
given patient, you want to get on top of the infection as quickly and
completely as possibly, since the main concern is intervening too late to deal
with a very high pathogen titer and advanced tissue and organ damage.
Therefore,
it is most appropriate to treat an acute infection with whatever oxidant
therapies are available, while also dosing vitamin C at optimal levels. And
when someone still isn’t responding optimally, consider proceeding directly to
dosing vitamin C at high levels in at least four different forms, as outlined
in the ‘Multi-C
Protocol.’
Very
few viral and bacterial infections, except when already very advanced with
multi-organ failure present or imminent, will fail to respond to this approach.
Instead, a complete cure can routinely be anticipated. Much of the reason for
this is that there is nothing more critical in
restoring and sustaining immune system strength and tissue integrity than vitamin C.
The
other pro-oxidant therapies do not provide this enormous advantage (Levy,
2002).
About the Author: Thomas E. Levy, MD, JD is a board-certified internist and
cardiologist. He is also bar-certified for the practice of law. He has written
10 books now, generally concentrating on the importance of eliminating toxins
while bolstering antioxidant defenses in the body, with particular focus on
vitamin C. His website is PeakEnergy.com,
which also contains many articles addressing a variety of medical topics. His
latest book, The Toxic Tooth: How a root canal could be making you sick,
co-authored with Robert Kulacz, DDS, is now available at MedFoxPub.com, along with the rest of his books.
