Can You Catch Alzheimer’s Disease?, Part 2 – InVite Health Podcast, Episode 228
There is evidence that specific and varied infections organisms, certain viruses and bacteria, can trigger the effects of Alzheimer’s disease.
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Supporting More Than Immunity With Mushrooms – InVite Health Podcast, Episode 225
Mushrooms supply powerful antioxidants that support a healthy immune system, while also helping to fight off oxidative stress.
How Multivitamins Can Support Immunity – InVite Health Podcast, Episode 217
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There’s mounting evidence that simply taking a well-formed multiple vitamin and mineral supplement throughout the winter can help you get through with a lower likelihood of getting really sick with a virus. This is really, truly important during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the flu is coming up. We’re going to discuss some of the research on multiple vitamins and staying healthy over the winter.
Some data on vitamins and immunity
In a recent report from England, researchers from a number of academic research institutions mostly based in London wanted to see if certain vitamins help protect from respiratory tract infections like influenza or COVID-19. They looked at Vitamin A, Vitamin E, Vitamin D and Vitamin C specifically. The research team published their findings in BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health. They looked at data from a large segment of people living throughout the UK. They looked at their Vitamin C intake, their Vitamin D intake, their Vitamin A intake and their Vitamin E intake. They looked at how much they had in their food and if they took supplements. They found that they couldn’t look at Vitamin C because the people who wound up with respiratory tract infections were not taking Vitamin C supplements, so that’s off the board. For Vitamin A and Vitamin E, they found that both nutrients sourced from food and supplements are connected to a lower prevalence of respiratory tract infections in the United Kingdom. They found that Vitamin D from food had no effect on protecting the lungs and the respiratory tract, but Vitamin D from supplements was associated with fewer respiratory tract infections and fewer respiratory tract complaints. This is very interesting data.
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Researchers at Oregon State University performed a very small but extremely interesting study in adults aged 55 to 75. It was a three-month-long study. They found that, compared to people who did not take a multivitamin supplement, older adults who took the multivitamin mineral supplement daily were sicker for a shorter period of time with less severe symptoms. The researchers from Oregon State University hypothesized that the daily multivitamin and mineral contains micronutrients essential for your immune system, which I agree with wholeheartedly. They’re pointing specifically at Vitamin C, Vitamin D and Zinc. These nutrients could improve your immune cell function as you grow older. This is in the journal Nutrients.
For more research on how multivitamins and minerals can help your immune system, tune into the full podcast episode.
What to look for in a multivitamin supplement
If you get a good multivitamin, you’ll get beta carotene (the precursor to Vitamin A), but make sure that it’s natural beta carotene. You’ll get Vitamin E, but, once again, make sure it’s natural Vitamin E. The synthetic Vitamin E doesn’t work well and most vitamin companies use synthetic Vitamin E and synthetic beta carotene because they’re much less expensive. But you want to get these nutrients in their natural forms. You want at least 400 units of Vitamin D and make sure it’s Vitamin D3, which is more active than the other form, D2. My recommendation is to get a well-made multivitamin. Make sure they don’t use titanium dioxide. Sometimes when there’s liquid-filled capsules, which is sometimes the case with a multivitamin, they want to make it look nicer and protect the ingredients, they coat the capsule with titanium dioxide. That’s not good. Titanium dioxide is a heavy metal and when you ingest it, it’s been shown to irritate the lining of the intestines and you could develop leaky bowel syndrome, which is not a good thing. It also seems to get into the pancreas and damage the beta cells that release insulin and can increase your risk of developing diabetes. So make sure if you buy any supplement, it does not have titanium dioxide.
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Tune into the full podcast episode to hear more of Jerry’s recommendations.
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Why Medical Professionals Are Utilizing Vitamin C For COVID Patients, Part 2 – InVite Health Podcast, Episode 215
Medical professionals are utilizing Vitamin C for COVID patients. Here’s why Vitamin C is so important for the immune system.
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The largest hospital system in New York State, Northwell Hospital, is utilizing Vitamin C for COVID patients. Here’s why.
Why Melatonin Is Important During COVID-19 – InVite Health Podcast, Episode 209
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Today, we’re going to discuss melatonin. Is it important to use during the time of the COVID-19 infection? The indication is yes.
But let’s get this straight. There have been no studies to my knowledge directly testing melatonin with the current coronavirus. However, this nutrient is really important for the immune system. Melatonin is a very good anti-inflammatory nutrient, and melatonin is very safe. It has an antiviral effect. In fact, it helps prevent a lot of the damage caused by other viruses.†
What is melatonin and what does it do?
Melatonin is a hormone that we release from different parts of our bodies. For instance, most people know that it’s released in a part of the brain called the pineal gland at night when it’s getting dark to help us sleep at night. But it has many other activities. The lining of our intestines can release melatonin. It’s needed for good digestion.†
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It’s also expressed by immune cells. That’s how important it is to the immune system. They’ve shown that it’s really important for making the immune system more competent. Many of the cells in the immune system depend on melatonin for direction, plus melatonin helps prevent an overwhelming attack by our own immune system, which is one of the things that happens with the coronavirus.†
People who are very sick with this virus wind up in the hospital fighting, sometimes for their life. What happens is the virus triggers inflammation, and then the immune system itself can also trigger inflammation, and it can get to a serious level. The end result is that it can damage the lungs, the heart, the lining of the intestines, and the brain.
In fact, a recent study looked at people admitted to the hospital with COVID-19. Eighty percent (80%) of them had neurological symptoms, and they’re finding through postmortem autopsies that somehow, the coronavirus is getting into the brain and causing persistent brain damage. So it’s important to have things available to us at this point that can help protect our brain, lungs, heart, and digestive tract.†
Some reports on the efficacy of melatonin
A study titled “Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and Its Neuroinvasive Capacity: Is It Time for Melatonin?” was published in August in the journal Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology. The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio was one of the academic institutions involved with this study, as well as the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Madrid. The study says that the virus is entering into the brain and causing brain damage, though it’s not known how or why. The researchers said that high doses of melatonin are not only good for your immune system, but it can also help block the inflammation in the brain caused by the coronavirus.†
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Once again, they haven’t designed studies directly using this nutrient and SARS-CoV-2, but a lot of doctors are recommending melatonin because they know it has antiviral and anti-inflammatory activity and is very safe. The problem is that many people with compromised immune systems are lacking melatonin. The activity of melatonin also drops with age.†
Here’s Molecular Biology Reports. It’s a study done in September by the Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Dentistry, Near East University in Nicosia, Cyprus. The study looked at a protein that’s expressed by our immune system that’s called CD147. CD147 works with immune cells, but it’s also responsible for the cytokine storm in the lungs, which is when the immune system damages the lungs. The researchers said that melatonin had previously been found to help protect from cardiac damage relating to other viruses and CD147, so melatonin should also be useful with the coronavirus. They said that melatonin may help prevent severe symptoms in coronavirus patients.†
For more research about the impacts of melatonin on COVID-19 patients and symptoms, tune into the full podcast episode.
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