What Dr. Brownstein's Clinic Suggested or Provided to COVID-19 Patients in Study, Made Easy

You may have already known about the study published recently (July 2020) by David Brownstein, MD, et al., reporting their findings treating COVID-19 patients in early 2020.   I previously provided a topic about the journal, it's founder, and the study. You can find this at www.lumigrate.com/forum/novel-approach-treating-covid-19-using-nutritional-and-oxidative-therapies-brownstein-et-al [1]   (I do want to provide his photograph, from his website, here though.) 

For Lumigrate YOUsers who want to know the highlights of the treatment protocol provided by Dr. Brownstein to the 107 patients in the study, without having to read through the other information of the study at this point, though this of course is recommended as a next step if interest is piqued. this blog's for YOU!.

Dr. Brownstein is a well known physician and educator / activist who has an outpatient medical office in Michigan operating in the non-allopathic / -conventional / -mainstream.  Their website is very easily found with an Internet search, so I'll leave that to you (and not have confusion or competition with the link to the study, above):

Highlights of the treatment: 

Oral supplementation of: iodine, vitamins A, C and D

Intravenous hydrogen peroxide and vitamin C

Intramuscular ozone injections

Nebulized solution of dilute hydrogen peroxide and iodine.

Please see the website-based article at the link, above, for details before taking action if you're inspired by the information; I am preparing this shortly after it was published, and there's always the possibility of a detail having been found and corrected at the source of the information. 

I have made formatting changes, mostly lots of paragraph breaks and removing details, not affecting content aside from simplification.  This is for ease of reading, as Lumigrate serves a wide range of people, some of whom have problematic eyes or brains affecting vision, perception, and cognition.  Others are fully intact and very busy, over-extended mentally, and they can appreciate these topics as well.  And everyone in between! 

Again, as I've said above, GO TO THE LINK, ABOVE after you've reviewed the information provided here for "overview" purposes.

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"Oral dosing consisted of taking the following supplements for four days at the first sign of symptoms or at the direction of the practitioner. The supplements consisted of:

• Vitamin A: 100,000 IU/day*** in the form of emulsified Vitamin A palmitate

• Vitamin C: 1,000 mg/hour while awake in the form of ascorbic acid until bowel tolerance (loose stools) was reached

• Vitamin D3: 50,000 IU/day in an emulsified form

• Iodine: 25 mg/day in the form of Lugol’s solution or tableted Lugol’s solution

Most patients were instructed to nebulize a dilute solution of 0.04% hydrogen peroxide in normal saline. The solution was mixed for the patient in the office. A sterile 250 cc bag of normal saline was injected with 3 cc of 3% food grade hydrogen peroxide and 1 cc of magnesium sulfate.

The patient was instructed to draw off 3 cc of the dilute solution and nebulize it hourly until symptoms improve. Additionally, the patient was instructed to add in one drop of 5% Lugol’s solution to the dilute hydrogen peroxide mixture. As the symptoms improved, the frequency of nebulizing could be reduced by the patient.

If symptoms worsened, or there was a concern that the patient was suffering from a more severe case, the patient was advised to come to the office and receive intravenous injections of vitamin C and hydrogen peroxide, along with intramuscular injections of ozone. The dosing of these items is shown below:

• Vitamin C: 2.5 grams of sodium ascorbate (5 cc of a 500 mg/cc ascorbic acid solution) mixed with an equal amount of sterile water given as an intravenous push over 2-3 minutes. 

• Hydrogen peroxide: 30 cc of a 0.03% solution of dilute hydrogen peroxide given as an intravenous push over 2-3 minutes

• Ozone: 20 cc of 18 mcg/cc ozone (as an oxygen/ozone gas mixture) given in each buttock as an intramuscular injection

A Bit About Each Component (See study at link, above for more details, of course). 

Vitamin A

Vitamin A consists of a group of retinoid compounds that have a wide range of physiological effects including the support of immune system functioning. In children, vitamin A supplementation has been shown to dramatically decrease the mortality from the viral illnesses such as measles and diarrheal infections.

Fat in butter, a good source of vitamin A, improved the outcome of infections in malnourished animals and humans. Vitamin A is fundamental in maintaining the integrity of the epithelium. Vitamin A deficiency has been associated with disruptions in normal epithelium of the respiratory tract and gastrointestinal tissue. Vitamin A has been shown to be an important regulator of monocyte differentiation and function.

Vitamin C

High-dose IV vitamin C was found to have an antioxidant effect for lung epithelial cells.

Vitamin C has also been shown to prevent the oxidation of iron from its reduced ferrous state to the oxidized ferric form

Vitamin D

There are several mechanisms by which vitamin D could reduce the risk of influenza-like infections and death. Viral infections have been shown to disrupt airway epithelial cell junctions.

Vitamin D has been shown to maintain tight epithelial junctions and adherens junctions.

Vitamin D has been shown to modulate cellular immunity and reduce cytokine storm by reducing the production of proinflammatory cytokines

Iodine

Iodine is an essential element; therefore it must be obtained from the diet or via supplementation. For over 40 years, US iodine levels have fallen in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES).

Nearly 60% of women of childbearing age are deficient in iodine.

In fact, the mean urinary iodine concentration among pregnant US women is 134 ug/L which signifies deficiency. The authors have tested over 6,000 patients and found the vast majority—over 97%– are deficient in iodine. Iodine is needed for proper immune system functioning. Iodine supplementation has been shown to increased IgG synthesis in human lymphocytes. Iodine deficiency is associated with decreased phagocytic activity of blood neutrophils.

Japan has one of the lowest rates of COVID-19 illnesses in the Western world, even in a crowded city such as Tokyo. Furthermore, Japan has not gone on a total lockdown. The Japanese are known to have a much higher iodine intake through their diet when compared to other Western countries. It is estimated that the Mainland Japanese ingest over 100x the RDA as compared to US citizens. Perhaps Tokyo and Japan itself has had less serious COVID-19 illness because of their iodine intake.

There are MANY MORE details, including nebulizing and ozone, after the above portion of the study.  I wanted to simplify this most "sought after" information for those who might appreciate it being brought together in an easier to read and comprehend way.  

I'll leave this here with you.  ~ Mardy