Speaker 1: It's been aessinal health but doctor Paul and that's me.
Speaker 1: I'm doctor Paul. Today we're looking at preparing for cold
Speaker 1: and flu season, things that you can do that you
Speaker 1: probably have control over in your life. And this section
Speaker 1: is going to be on supplemental nutrients. So in the
Speaker 1: previous section we talked about diet and lifestyle and other
Speaker 1: stuff like that. Now what supplemental things might be good?
Speaker 1: So first off, let me just say nothing I'm going
Speaker 1: to share with you is anything other than general health
Speaker 1: information from a doctor. This is not medical advice, So
Speaker 1: you should take this information and work it out with
Speaker 1: a healthcare provider that is trained to sort these things
Speaker 1: out for you. So don't take medical advice from people
Speaker 1: on the radio or YouTube and stuff. But that being said,
Speaker 1: just a little quick education. So in the nutrient world,
Speaker 1: on the supplement side of things, we might have things
Speaker 1: like amino acids, so those makeup proteins usually broken down,
Speaker 1: you know, like tyrosine, et cetera. We might have a
Speaker 1: number of amino acids put together like a tripeth of
Speaker 1: like gluted thione. Then we might have fats and fatty
Speaker 1: acids like the phospholipids or fiss oil, Omega three six's,
Speaker 1: et cetera. And then we can have vitamins and minerals,
Speaker 1: and so minerals are going to be water soluble, they're
Speaker 1: going to be the inorganic part of cofactors. And the
Speaker 1: vitamins then fall into two categories, which is fat soluble
Speaker 1: and water soluble. And so if we're looking at fat
Speaker 1: and water soluble, why would we care about the difference. Well,
Speaker 1: fat valuable vitamins we tend to if we take very
Speaker 1: much of them, we tend to recommend that you do
Speaker 1: a large amount in the beginning kind of a loading dose,
Speaker 1: and then taper off to a maintenance dose. Because a
Speaker 1: fat soluble vitamin, your body can build up in the tissues.
Speaker 1: And while they're very useful for you, there are there
Speaker 1: are toxicity associations with too high of the fat soluble items.
Speaker 1: So you want to have some advice and guidance if
Speaker 1: you're going to do like a lot of any particular
Speaker 1: fat soluble vitamin beyond your food or maybe a multi
Speaker 1: vitamin or something. Whereas the water soluble vitamins are mostly
Speaker 1: not stored. They're a little bitter stored here and there,
Speaker 1: but mostly what you eat or consume today is gone
Speaker 1: by tomorrow or the next day, and so the water
Speaker 1: soluble are considered a lot more safe. Now they might
Speaker 1: cause other like gas er, intestinal upset or other things
Speaker 1: like that, but generally they're pretty safe. So the fat
Speaker 1: solubles are A D E and K A D E
Speaker 1: N K. Those are our fat soluble vitamins and they
Speaker 1: are all very important in the world of your immune system.
Speaker 1: Now we'll talk about them first, and we'll talk about
Speaker 1: water soluble stuff. So a real common one. We saw
Speaker 1: more about this in the last couple of years with COVID,
Speaker 1: where there's some publications where people with more normal, like
Speaker 1: higher normal levels of vitamin D had less dangerous versions
Speaker 1: of COVID when they were in the hospital and on
Speaker 1: and on. I've talked about that on previous podcasts and
Speaker 1: put out those data and that sort of stuff. But basically,
Speaker 1: vitamin D levels you want to be sufficient. Now you
Speaker 1: can get a vitamin D test pretty easily, and generally speaking,
Speaker 1: that's fine for general monitoring. If a person has never
Speaker 1: taken vitamin D, a lot of times their healthcare provider
Speaker 1: might say, well for a month, why don't you take extra?
Speaker 1: You know, kind of get the level up and then
Speaker 1: we'll go down to a maintenance dose. Maintenance dose might
Speaker 1: be two thousand, I use five thousand, I use ten thousand.
Speaker 1: I depends on how your body utilizes the vitamin D. Now,
Speaker 1: normally in modern times, when we're supplementing with vitamin D,
Speaker 1: vitamin D and vitamin K like K like king go together,
Speaker 1: and they do a lot of work together. So we
Speaker 1: think about vitamin D for bones, right. Well, one of
Speaker 1: the reasons vitamin D works for calcium metabolism and bones
Speaker 1: is because the vitamin K is there to help it
Speaker 1: get the calcium in the right direction and so that
Speaker 1: it doesn't go to a soft issue, goes to the bone.
Speaker 1: But it turns out that they do a lot of
Speaker 1: other things together. Vitamin D obviously does way more. It's
Speaker 1: involved in immune function, hormone function, et cetera. So most
Speaker 1: of the vitamin D supplements now you can also get
Speaker 1: a vitamin D slash K two, so D and KK
Speaker 1: like king DK two supplements and those maintenance ones are
Speaker 1: usually like five thousand units of vitamin D and some
Speaker 1: hundred micrograms of K two, and that's it's a particular ratio,
Speaker 1: and most supplement companies that are reliable have that figured out.
Speaker 1: If you're just taking vitamin D, that's that's fine too.
Speaker 1: It's just I think for long term use, D and
Speaker 1: K two go better together. And again you know, run
Speaker 1: that by your healthcare provider. Vitamin A something certainly that
Speaker 1: we can get toxic with. Pregnant women should take very
Speaker 1: low doses of vitamin A as a potential toatogenicity to
Speaker 1: the fetus. But vitamin A is very important. It's also
Speaker 1: very important and acute use when we have especially respiratory infections, viruses,
Speaker 1: stuff like that, So vitamin a while we don't want
Speaker 1: you know, tons and tons forever, a lot of people
Speaker 1: are quite low, their diet may not have as much
Speaker 1: you know whatever. So a lot of times we are
Speaker 1: recommending things, you know, on an acute basis, we might
Speaker 1: give like a larger dose of vitamin a, sometimes twenty
Speaker 1: five or fifty thousand international units of a fat soluble
Speaker 1: vitamin A for a little bit, and then we take
Speaker 1: the person down, sometimes more, sometimes less. Again that's a
Speaker 1: clinical decision to make. But vitamin A is incredibly important
Speaker 1: in your respiratory function. It works in all epithelial tissues
Speaker 1: and your respiratory epithelium is a big place that it works,
Speaker 1: and so it helps support the immune system. There also
Speaker 1: been used in a number of other things to support
Speaker 1: immune function. The thing, just like with vitamin D being
Speaker 1: a fat soluble, is that if you take a high
Speaker 1: dose for a long period of time, you can get
Speaker 1: overdose or toxicity symptoms, which is why if you're going
Speaker 1: to do a lot of this or long term, you
Speaker 1: really should be working with a practitioner who understands how
Speaker 1: nutrients work and how to guide you there. Then the
Speaker 1: last one is E Vitamin E like Edward and so
Speaker 1: vitamin E is a good base nutrient. A lot of
Speaker 1: times if you can get two or three hundred international
Speaker 1: units of good vitamin E in a good quality multivitamin,
Speaker 1: that's plenty for you. We use it because it's part
Speaker 1: of the oxidation reduction system in the body, and so
Speaker 1: the redox system is there to help to modulate oxidation.
Speaker 1: We always want both of them going on, but we
Speaker 1: want to get back to kind of the midline, and
Speaker 1: that's what the oxydation reduction system does, and vitamin E
Speaker 1: is a big component of that as well. So usually
Speaker 1: lower dose as though because it's kind of a chronically
Speaker 1: administered thing. Target doses are usually two hundred to four
Speaker 1: hundred international units a day for most adults, but you
Speaker 1: might be a little higher for certain things. And again,
Speaker 1: if it's worked out with your healthcare provider, whatever they
Speaker 1: come up with is great. Now, we also want to
Speaker 1: talk about water solubles and I'm going to keep this
Speaker 1: to just some of the basic, the big ones, So
Speaker 1: vitamin C. We've had plenty of videos and audio on
Speaker 1: vitamin C. Bottom line is it is water soluble. It
Speaker 1: leads your body. You don't store much in your body,
Speaker 1: and as soon as you get sick, your vitamin D
Speaker 1: levels plummet down to all either undetectable or almost undetectable.
Speaker 1: And that's because it's fully dependent on you eating it
Speaker 1: all the time every day. The problem with that is
Speaker 1: is that vitamin C is involved not just in oxidation
Speaker 1: reduction generally, but it's also involved in kind of the
Speaker 1: care and feeding of a lot of the immune set.
Speaker 1: A lot of the reactions that the immune cells use
Speaker 1: to create an immune response are vitamin C dependent. And
Speaker 1: what we see in some research anyway, is that if
Speaker 1: we keep the vitamin C levels up to normal during
Speaker 1: an acute or even a exacerbated dangerous illness, people will
Speaker 1: be in the hospital less time and may have some
Speaker 1: less sequali etc. So vitamin C you can take now
Speaker 1: a lot of times. The limit is your bowels. If
Speaker 1: you take too much vitamin C all at once, you
Speaker 1: get loose stools. It's not dangerous, it's just uncomfortable. So
Speaker 1: what we usually have people do is take it with
Speaker 1: each meal, split it up through the day, and have
Speaker 1: them start with five hundred milligrams and go up until
Speaker 1: their vowels feel a little bit loose. So three times
Speaker 1: a day, and that's usually really well tolerated. And vitamin
Speaker 1: C it's one of those things that you know, when
Speaker 1: you're healthy, you can take just a little bit, and
Speaker 1: if you're getting sick, you might want to take a
Speaker 1: lot more and then kind of you know, taper down
Speaker 1: when you're feeling better. But vitamin C is definitely a
Speaker 1: very good preventive device on the front end. How does
Speaker 1: it keep you from getting sick? Not all the time, no,
Speaker 1: but again you don't have to try, you know, and
Speaker 1: do everything you can to be a big target for
Speaker 1: immune problems. The B vitamins generally are water soluble, as well.
Speaker 1: They have some cousins that are kind of go both ways,
Speaker 1: but most of the vitamins, and if you look even
Speaker 1: in the research for COVID, COVID prevention all that stuff,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of inferential research around like using the complex,
Speaker 1: et cetera, because they run so many enzyme systems. And
Speaker 1: what we want to remember is that the bee vitamins
Speaker 1: do a lot of the work with enzyme cofactor, but
Speaker 1: they always work with minerals, so we'll talk about minerals too.
Speaker 1: Then there's a glutathione and supportive things. So anecetyl systeine
Speaker 1: is actually a form an oral form of an amino
Speaker 1: acid that's a rate limit amino acid for the formation
Speaker 1: of gluet to thione. It also does other things like
Speaker 1: thin your mucus out. Turns out it's very helpful for
Speaker 1: your resptory system, et cetera. And it can be directly
Speaker 1: supportive to your immune system. So a lot of people
Speaker 1: will take antocetyl system. Again, it's water soluble, it's quite safe,
Speaker 1: and so if your healthcare provider recommends that that's what
Speaker 1: they're going for. Probably now you might use anicetyl system
Speaker 1: therapeutically such as in a nebulizer or something. But this
Speaker 1: is more oral preventive use. A lot of people now
Speaker 1: will take glutathione, the acetyl glutathione or the liposomal glutathione
Speaker 1: or reasonably absorbable orally glutathion on itself is not terribly
Speaker 1: absorbable orly but acetyl or lipeosomal glutedthione, and we'll have
Speaker 1: people take that with their vitamin C kind of chronically
Speaker 1: in preparation for assaults on the immune system. And then
Speaker 1: the final part I wanted to just mention was the minerals.
Speaker 1: And so early in the COVID experience, the discussion of
Speaker 1: zinc ionophores and zinc and all this got everyone really excited.
Speaker 1: And so everyone's taking these tons and tons of zinc
Speaker 1: and now everyone's got like too much zinc and their
Speaker 1: copper is suppressed, which for some people may not be bad,
Speaker 1: but it's one of those things where it's a balanced thing. Yes,
Speaker 1: if it's you're gonna do it for two, three, four weeks,
Speaker 1: you're going to take a lot of zinc and it
Speaker 1: doesn't make you throw up great, you know. Whatever, what
Speaker 1: I tended to do with patients, especially during COVID was
Speaker 1: to have them do a multi mineral that's going to
Speaker 1: have a good quantity of zinc, a little bit of copper,
Speaker 1: and then all the other trades minerals like selenium and chromium,
Speaker 1: et cetera, because they really work better together. And it's
Speaker 1: not just zync that is helpful with the immune system.
Speaker 1: It's it's sort of the famous trace mineral, but you
Speaker 1: need the other minerals as well. So a good trace
Speaker 1: mineral is better long term for that than just taking
Speaker 1: a lot of one trace element, and that includes zinc. Now,
Speaker 1: if you're really around a lot of people, or you
Speaker 1: know you're going to be exposed or something like that,
Speaker 1: then a lot of people will, for example, use like
Speaker 1: zinc lozenges when they're on airplanes, you know, increase the
Speaker 1: zinc in their oral fringeal area. Actually works better if
Speaker 1: it's directly in contact with your nucus membranes, or they
Speaker 1: might take a little extra zinc while they're traveling, et cetera.
Speaker 1: That's fine, but I think long term you're better off
Speaker 1: using a multi mineral. So that's a little quick trip
Speaker 1: through nutrients. You can also go on the doctor a
Speaker 1: Now website dr now Dot com and look into the
Speaker 1: archives of the of the newsletter, and there's nutrients for
Speaker 1: COVID in there in the newsletter, and we've got a
Speaker 1: ton of them in the videos and in the audio
Speaker 1: for the podcast as well. But again not medical advice,
Speaker 1: run all us by your healthcare provider like Share, Subscribe
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