A doctor shares what supplements Italian clinics used during COVID-19: zinc, vitamin D, quercetin, lactoferrin, medical mushrooms, and probiotics. The focus is prevention and immune support based on clinical experience.
In your experience in Italy, are there other adjunctive therapies that are being used to support the immune system nutritionally or through supplements that are making a difference? Well, supplements to me are an incredible tool. And I think that using supplements is so important, especially in the preliminary preventing approach, which is important. And adding to zinc and vitamin D, I believe very much in quercetin, in lactoferrin, which is two molecules that are very effective in helping to prevent the infection from COVID And what I also use in my practice, I don't know if it's a general practice in Italy, but I can tell you my experience. I use a lot also medical mushrooms such as Ganoderma and Cordyceps. They're two that are immune active and I see together with these elements we just talked about are very effective and they are so much helpful in, you know, defeating rather than preventing the infection of of COVID together with also probiotics that actually the one we used actually in the protocol we published and we did for ozone, we also added on the use of Bifidobacterium, 450 million of those every day, twice a day, because the bacteria itself sort of killed the virus. It's a direct sort of interaction. negative interaction to the virus. So these are things that I believe very much work and they can help, especially patients that are not so critical. That's right. I mean, we're really not talking about a sort of widespread public health message that incorporates the science of how to boost your immune function through food or through nutraceuticals.
