Sunday, December 12, 2021

COVID Causing Balding in Men and Women?

So it looks like there are a handful of causes for hair loss.  Registered Dietician, Jennifer Depew, called out a few: low iodine, excess halides, lack of B vitamins, and other trace minerals."  

This shouldn't have surprised me, but it did

Oceans are the world's main repositories of iodine and very little of earths iodine is actually found in the soil. The deposition of iodine in the soil occurs due to volatilization from ocean water, a process aided by ultraviolet radiation. The coastal regions of the world are much richer in iodine content than the soils further inland; here the problem gets more compounded by continuous leeching of iodine from the soil(). Therefore, the crops grown in such soil remain iodine deficient; even ground water in these areas is deficient in iodine(). This explains the endemic distribution of Iodine Deficiency Disorders (IDD) in the world. 

As for iodine loss due to COVID-19 or the COVID-19 vaccine, it is cause for concern

The thyroid seems to be one of the most common end-organ targets of COVID-19 morbidity.

So the thyroid is vulnerable.  How best to protect it?  

Hmm, like which ones?  It looks like shellfish, fish, and seaweed are your champion foods for iodine.

Marine products, including fish, kelp, seaweeds, and shellfish are rich natural food sources. However, people living far away from the coast tend to take low amounts of seafood and develop insufficiency of the mineral in their system. 

The insufficiency of this trace mineral is taken care of in several countries by compulsory iodization of the common table salt. The amount added to common salt is just to stave off hypothyroidism. Apart from thyroid glands, iodine is present in high concentrations in breast tissue, stomach lining cells, ovaries, prostate glands, and oral mucosa. Any insufficiency will adversely affect the health of these tissues.

She highlights halides, and those are salts

Halides are chemical compounds that contain halogens. Halides are present in nature with some—namely salts and acids—being essential to human life. Halides can be found in minerals, animals, and plants. The best-known halide is NaCl: table salt.

While some halogen-containing substances or halides are safe, there are some that have raised suspicions as being toxic and carcinogenic. In the electronics industry, this can be a concern as some of these materials are used in manufacturing.

For example, we know that chlorine is used to keep drinking water safe by killing off unwanted bacteria. It is not harmful to humans in such a low concentration. However, concerns arise when chlorine gas is released into the air.

Here is a list of some iodine-rich foods:

Seaweed, 232 mcg

Bread made with iodate dough, 185 mcg

Cod, 158 mcg

Greek yogurt, 116 mcg

Oysters, 93 mcg

Non-fat milk, 85 mcg

Eggs, 26 mcg

Beef liver, 14 mcg 

Lots of benefits to taking iodine supplements.  The top three benefits are, one, improved cognitive performance, two, improved neuromotor function, and three, increased TH [or thyroid] levels.  How does iodine help with COVID symptoms or symptoms from a COVID vaccine?  

TAKE VITAMIN D3 CONSTANTLY: If you wait until you actually get the virus, it's already too late.

Once they have a virus, take 50 milligrams [of zinc] two times a day for one week and that hits the virus on the head within hours.

As the first line of defense, we should be dealing with people's immune systems in the safest way possible.

8:05  How much vitamin D? 50 to 100 grams/milliliter.  4,000IUs, but he did mention that people can do 50,000IUs a day for 6 months without any adverse effects.

10:40  25 milligrams of zinc is extremely safe; you can take up to 40mg a day without any ill effects in most adults.  You go above that and you reduce the absorption of copper.    How much zinc?  50mg  

11:05  You asked me about vitamin D.  4,000 units.  But people who are overweight need up to or over 8,000 to 10,000 units or more per day.

How much vitamin K2?  200mgs per day, every day.  Because vitamin D does cause the release of calcium from the bones into the blood and you want to try to avoid any deposition of that in the wrong places.  

To fight infections like COVID, you'd want to have levels of vitamin D above 50 grams.  With each higher dose of vitamin D, it triggers the protein and genetic pathways that people need to do better.

Virtually every cell in your body has vitamin D receptors.  Therefore, . . . take your vitamin D.  Your body is waiting, hungering to feel better.  A lot of vitamin D's functions are immunomodulatory that actually directs the immune system to work in a better way.  If you combine vitamin D with zinc, which has significant effects on viral infections, boosts the cells' ability to kill viruses, including cancer.

Get enough sleep.  Get outside, get some sun.  Engage in sports.  It's very much about looking after yourself.  

15:30  If you want the derided compound, Hydroxychloroquine to work, it works in combination with zinc.  It seems that that makes the difference.  You don't want a zinc deficiency.  Studies have shown that zinc does improve the immune response to viral infections.  And, I can say anecdotally, that I use it on a daily basis [as a physician] for viral infections.  Once they have a virus, take 50 milligrams two times a day for one week, and that hits the virus on the head within hours.

Cytotoxic lymphocytes need zinc to function properly.  Without Cytotoxic Lymphocytes, what viral infection--it's going to run right over you.  

Whereas zinc works straight away on a virus, vitamin D needs to be metabolized.  What does that mean?  You need at least a few days beforehand to get into your system, therefore, I just tell people to take it constantly.  You want to take it for at least a few weeks beforehand, seeing as you don't know when you're going to get CVID, you could get COVID twice easily.  If you wait until you actually get the virus, it's already too late.  Even people who've received high doses after they get the virus--they've done studies with 50,000, 200,000 units of vitamin D given as a shot at the time of admission to the hospital, it probably does have some immunomodulatory effect but it takes time to kick in.  It takes a few days, by which stage the person could be a lot farther down the illness with COVID.  They could be onto a much later stage of COVID whereby they're already ventilated.  And the whole idea of this is to prevent that.  

Yes, we know it has to be metabolized by the liver and it has to be metabolized by the kidneys.  I can remember patients with renal failure, for example, who couldn't metabolize their vitamin D.

After metabolism, you've got to make sure it has its effects on the genetics of the body, on the immune system, and that presumably takes longer.  

High doses of vitamin D.  

He neglects to mention it but for D to be absorbable, you must take magnesium.  That means you must take magnesium with vitamin D.

SPIKE PROTEINS CAUSING BALDING? Low iodine, excess haldes, and lack of Bs and other trace minerals.