AI Mark and a functional-medicine doctor discuss what to do after a positive COVID test. They recommend vitamin D at 5,000-10,000 IU daily as a loading dose, plus melatonin, vitamin A, vitamin C, quercetin, and N-acetylcysteine. For complications, they suggest herbs like skullcap and targeted probiotics.
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Five, probably 10,000 units a day to start off with (speaker phrasing).
A higher pulse dose for the first five days (speaker recommendation).
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You get these calls every day. I do. For sure. I know. Which is, hey, my brother, he's got Covid. My mother's got Covid. What do I do?
Yes, we can do diet, lifestyle, stress reduction, sleep, and take a bunch of vitamins and nutraceuticals as prevention, which is great. And we should all be doing that, particularly now given that this is so widespread. But what happens when you get it and what do you tell people, given this amazing amount of research that you and the Institute for Functional Medicine has done, looking at the data on this.
So there's the prevention piece of, hey, these are some things that I think will help you to not get it so severely. But then once, once you get it, once you've got that PCR or NAA test positive, then I say, well, let's go with what we know works. Let's go with vitamin D. Good data on that. You know, taking five, probably 10,000 units a day to start off with. And I've seen people use significantly higher doses as loading doses, but at least go there. You know, let's look at taking melatonin. We know it's anti inflammat inflammatory effect. Let's look at vitamin A, its effect on the mucosal immune system and using a pulse dose of a higher dose for the first five days. Yes, it's true that vitamin A can cause liver damage if it's used in excess of dosages for prolonged periods of time. That's not what we're talking about. It's like, let's give you a little burst of that to be able to help out with that. Then let's look at other things in terms of vitamin C, Quercetin. I love quercetin and I love an acetylcysteine. You know, those are the things that are, you know, to me, the big pieces. Now if you start.
And by the way, I take those every day. Yeah, I take all those every day.
Me too. Now for other reasons. I've been taking them every day, but I'm taking them every day. So then, then if there's other things that start emerging, GI problems or a significant respiratory problem, then we may get into other kinds of herbs like skullcap and some of the Chinese herbs that can be very helpful in that regard. Now, if someone progresses enough that they're going into being hospitalized, that's a different story in terms of how aggressive to be at that point in time. We want to be able to do things that are really going to dampen down the inflammatory response. We're not going to want to kind of push the whole inflammatory response because those people usually have some kind of hyper inflammation that's going on. I'm also in the big mix and things that we've talked about. I'm going to be using prebiotics and even a specific probiotic to be able to help modify the gut microbiome. Because the gut microbiome is related to the pulmonary microbiome. They're connected to each other.
It's very. A lot of the similar things you use for prevention, you use for treatment. That's the way it is in functional medicine. How do you prevent diabetes? You eat a healthy diet. How do you reverse diabetes? You eat a healthy diet.
