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the Joe Rogan experience so if you're gonna put someone on sort of a
preventative protocol for for kovat you would recommend quercetin and you can
get it we just I just bought some on Amazon after you brought it I wasn't
taking quercetin yeah quercetin at what dose well what we started off just for
you know for daily use because the benefit of quercetin is it drops the
inflammatory cytokines it increases mitochondria so you produce more cells
so you produce more energy ATP that was what we were using for and it was 500
milligrams twice a day and zinc was 15 to 30 milligrams twice a day and in the
past 20 years I've been sick 13 days and what I started seeing in our
population
because we do a monthly questionnaire to our patient population and we have two
questions about allergies and about infections or colds and we started
seeing years ago that the number of colds people were having were dropping in
their allergies were improving and honestly I didn't understand why until
kovat and I started looking at how the immune system is influenced by things
like
zinc and certain of testosterone testosterone stimulates the CD4 CD8 cells
which are the immune cells that helped to defend us against infections viral
bacterial innate immunity as well as it increases something called
intralukin 10 which is an anti-inflammatory product and it drops the
inflammatory intralukins these are the cytokines or produced by our immune
system to
help fight off infections by sending out an attack against them which is a
biochemical attack other than just antibodies so you get zinc 15 to 30
milligrams twice a day quercetin 500 milligrams twice a day that's preventive
treatment and we've had to treat patients outside of our practice is a
thousand milligrams twice a day with 30 milligrams a thousand milligrams twice
a
day of quercetin and 30 milligrams twice a day of zinc and this is for
someone that has COVID that's someone who's active and what is what's going on
with zinc and quercetin and and COVID like how how does it interact yeah well
the virus that gets into our cells it gets into our cells through something
called an ACE2
receptor and that's what the vaccine is fighting against they call it the spike
protein so on the outer
membrane of the virus are these spikes so it uses our own system to transport
the virus into the cell
once it's in the cell the virus releases something called replicase replicase
is a
DNA reverse transcriptase protein that takes over our manufacturing at the ribosome
to
make more viral genome well it turns out that the replicase has an area on it
that if zinc
attaches to it shuts it off so quercetin is called an inophore it carries
charged particles into the cell
otherwise zinc sits outside the cell so zinc without a xinophore that has that
a xinophore
inophore yeah zinc without an inophore it just it doesn't work correct
interesting so a lot of
these people that are just taking zinc on its own it doesn't get in the cell
right it doesn't go into
the cell yeah generally speaking it won't get into the cell at a high rate it
will over time get in
because we have things that we take in like bismuth in our system from fruits
and vegetables we have
egcg from green tea if people are drinking green tea we've got curcumin from
food that's why in india they
don't get it so they're getting some form of an inophore but if you want to
really jam the zinc into the
cells um use a quercetin or turmeric or and then move on to d3 um i'm taking 5
000 ius a day what do you
i personally take a little bit more than that how much you take 50 000 jesus
christ mondays and 10 or
20 000 on every other day that's a lot why i don't know yeah that's right most
people say i don't know
but is there any negative aspect uh yeah there are negative aspects to high
levels of vitamin d but
not due to vitamin d due to what it does what vitamin d does as i said earlier
is it brings calcium in
from your nutrition and takes phosphorus in so it can build bone calcium if it's
too high hyperkalemia
will cause the um nausea vomiting and can cause the irregularity of the heart
so if you're taking high
dosing of calcium for whatever reason and you take high dosing of vitamin d you
would be at risk for
developing nausea vomiting and toxicity a study that was done which is also on
the paper i gave you
they did 113 000 hospitalized people and they looked at their vitamin d level
they all had been taking
vitamin d they only found i think it was four people who had toxicity from
elevated levels of
vitamin d and it turned out it was the liquid form of vitamin d that created
the problem so from that
standpoint vitamin d is very safe and i'm talking up numbers that are 60 to 100
i try to keep my range
at 80 to 100 because of studies that have shown you take calcium no you don't
why i have it in my
nutrition and i monitor my calcium every six months in my blood work so if my
levels are where they
should be i'm fine okay so what do you look for in nutrition to get your
calcium from what are you
getting from um you know i eat cheese i my daughter pulled me off of cow's milk
and tried me on uh goat
cheese goat cheese she gives me all that stuff so um and my cheese i get it and
then you know there
are foods that i eat i chew on bones so i get a little calcium that way chew on
bones no i'm just
kidding but um because i take bone meal yeah yeah yeah allison makes a bone
broth yeah she makes bone
broth at home so it has good bone marrow you know protein and uh some calcium i
don't know how much calcium
you get from it but uh i monitor i'm getting it someplace in my nutrition so
for someone who has
osteoporosis let's let's look point to them they're uh recommended to take
calcium right correct now
they're taking calcium and they have vitamin d3 correct then they must be
careful about what the levels
of vitamin d3 they take correct and the what do you recommend to someone who's
taking calcium like
what what levels see i use the science i use the laboratory to tell me how much
you know i get ridiculed
by my colleagues because i'm giving everybody a baseline of 10 000 units and
they say oh that's
toxic it's going to call pro you go and do the blood test and you see giving
them 10 000 they get a
you know still suboptimal level of vitamin d it's because they're not absorbing
it
so i can't assume that 10 000 is going to give them toxic levels you know
calcium absorption
so i i start at uh five to ten thousand ten thousand seems to be the amount and
then their calcium they
get they have a uh a prescribed product which has calcium and vitamin d in a
balanced uh uh combination
already so um who makes that i don't remember which pharmaceutical i don't use
it you know it was the
issue with the liquid vitamin d yeah the only thing is with liquid vitamin yeah
but why do you think uh
because the absorption rate because it gets absorbed so well capsule encapsulated
you know it's fat
soluble you take it after a meal it gets absorbed and based upon how good the
gut is you know dysbiosis
it will regulate how you absorb it so i don't assume anything i'll put a
patient on a protocol and then
three months later i'll go and test them and see where their levels are at if
they're at a great level
on that amount that's perfect for them how do i know that whatever i'm giving
them is going to be too
much too little or perfect and then the level of absorption which will indicate
in their blood will
indicate like what levels are shown in the blood is directly related to their
diet as well correct
and the other nutrients are taking it's related to the status of their gut the
lining of their gut
it's relative to if they took it before food or during food with food it's a
fat soluble fat soluble
vitamins like vitamin e um vitamin d or hormone d uh or dhea they all need um
food to optimize the
absorption okay so so we got d3 which you take at very high levels but what do
you recommend 10 000
uh you need to have a blood test before we put anybody on vitamin d we don't
just abstractly you
know put them on a number right we check their levels and i've been absolutely
amazed at not only
the frequency of deficiency of vitamin d but the fact that i've got surfers who
have deficiency of
vitamin d how can you be a surfer out there in the sun and be vitamin d deficient
wetsuits right well
they wear maybe the top but their arms and legs below the belly is exposed four
hours i'd see a lot of
guys with full wetsuits out there because that pacific ocean it's cold as it's
cold it's cold yeah but
when they get out they lay down on the beach you know i think human beings need
a lot of sun
uh i think the genetics are changing yeah are they yeah i think so look at why
did we develop this whole
system of vitamin d the vitamin d receptor stimulates hair growth to cover our
body with hair to avoid the
ionizing radiation that our ancestors neolithic ancestors used to have they
were getting cancer
they were getting exposed to high levels because the air was clear there was no
smog back then so
they were getting full strength of the radiation from the sun and they were
dying so the body is
saying that smogs protecting us from cancer uh is that what you're saying
relative relative to sun
joe just piece it all together yeah so brilliant hong kong like we're not hong
kong like uh what
what are the chinese cities beijing beijing really bad i was there yeah i used
to work there that's
right the olympics there and they said it was like the worst air quality they've
ever had for the olympics
and the only way they got the air clear there was shutting down all the
manufacturing that's in the
one of the inner circles see beijing grew so rapidly that they have 10 rings
around it and i think in
the fourth or fifth ring is where they have all the manufacturing so when the
financial summit
happened they shut them all down air was clear absolutely clear and the silliest
thing i was
there for new year's one year in february and they shot off 45 million dollars
worth of um
rockets and fireworks and firecrackers and all that added pollution you couldn't
breathe
and i was on the 27th floor of a building couldn't breathe up there really yeah
it was pretty bad
pretty bad it's okay so um d3 yes we so we got quercetin we got uh zinc 30
milligrams twice a day
um or that's the that's a therapeutic therapeutic a thousand milligrams twice a
day with 30 twice a day of
zinc um then d3 figure out what the levels are but what you're taking is
somewhere i'm taking uh what
about uh 120 000 a week if someone doesn't have like a good place to go they
don't they don't have
a good doctor to go how do they find a doctor that could read their vitamin
levels on on their blood work
like what do you look for like if someone's listening to this like i should get
my blood work done who do
they go right well functional medicine is big now and in functional medicine
they're looking at your
amino acids they're looking at your vitamin levels they're looking at your
mineral levels
which need to be done we're not getting our minerals anymore because we're
getting
bottled water how many minerals are in here all of them yeah oh right zero is
well that's hard
water right like well water that's what people call it for the mountain hard
water run off for the
mountains i know but that's what hard water is right when you get that's high
in calcium hydroxide or
calcium oxide whatever it is calcium minerals in the water right yeah and uh
you can buy the minerals
and put a couple of drops into the bottle let's take colloidal colloidal that's
it um so you got your d3
you got your quercetin you got your zinc uh what about vitamin c uh vitamin c
helps with the immune
system um how much do you take um how much do you take i don't take uh vitamin
c really no what do you
take i have two or three pieces of citrus fruit that i grow in my backyard uh
every morning every now and
then uh allison will bring in some of the uh from here it's called strawberry
texas uh grapefruits
phenomenal sweet as can be a strawberry grapefruit they call it strawberry
because of the color the
usual one is the um pink grapefruits from texas and not the yellow ones from
florida but the pink ones
and they're very high in vitamin c also i grow kumquats so i'll eat the whole
thing so they have a lot
of natural kumquats and i get two cycles a year so i'm always with uh natural
forms okay so you just get
it mostly i get it all naturally yeah what other uh i mean this is all we're
talking about like
during this coveted right pandemic where everybody's really concerned about
their immune system and
protecting themselves from yeah dhea is also an immune stimulator dhea you know
studies that came
out of massachusetts male aging study showed that dhea is extremely important
for protecting the heart
when they looked at you know quartiles the lowest 25 percent of the range
versus the highest
you saw a significant uh loss of heart attack deaths and significant decrease
in hospitalizations due to
heart attack and that's dhea it also stimulates the immune system so it up
regulates the ability of
our system to defend itself so it's a higher quality of defense and another
issue with vitamin d
i mean with dhea is dhea is important for allowing dht dihydrotestosterone into
the cell and why is
that important dht is a byproduct of testosterone because it's the combination
of dhea getting dht
dihydrotestosterone in the cell that allows for sugar to be brought into the myocytes
into the muscle
cells so there are articles out there talking about if you want to get the
optimal benefit for muscle growth
you need to make sure your dhea levels are optimal to get the dht to increase
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Vitamins Dr. Gordon Recommends to Boost Immune System re: COVID-19

the Joe Rogan experience so if you're gonna put someone on sort of a
preventative protocol for for kovat you would recommend quercetin and you can
get it we just I just bought some on Amazon after you brought it I wasn't
taking quercetin yeah quercetin at what dose well what we started off just for
you know for daily use because the benefit of quercetin is it drops the
inflammatory cytokines it increases mitochondria so you produce more cells
so you produce more energy ATP that was what we were using for and it was 500
milligrams twice a day and zinc was 15 to 30 milligrams twice a day and in the
past 20 years I've been sick 13 days and what I started seeing in our
population
because we do a monthly questionnaire to our patient population and we have two
questions about allergies and about infections or colds and we started
seeing years ago that the number of colds people were having were dropping in
their allergies were improving and honestly I didn't understand why until
kovat and I started looking at how the immune system is influenced by things
like
zinc and certain of testosterone testosterone stimulates the CD4 CD8 cells
which are the immune cells that helped to defend us against infections viral
bacterial innate immunity as well as it increases something called
intralukin 10 which is an anti-inflammatory product and it drops the
inflammatory intralukins these are the cytokines or produced by our immune
system to
help fight off infections by sending out an attack against them which is a
biochemical attack other than just antibodies so you get zinc 15 to 30
milligrams twice a day quercetin 500 milligrams twice a day that's preventive
treatment and we've had to treat patients outside of our practice is a
thousand milligrams twice a day with 30 milligrams a thousand milligrams twice
a
day of quercetin and 30 milligrams twice a day of zinc and this is for
someone that has COVID that's someone who's active and what is what's going on
with zinc and quercetin and and COVID like how how does it interact yeah well
the virus that gets into our cells it gets into our cells through something
called an ACE2
receptor and that's what the vaccine is fighting against they call it the spike
protein so on the outer
membrane of the virus are these spikes so it uses our own system to transport
the virus into the cell
once it's in the cell the virus releases something called replicase replicase
is a
DNA reverse transcriptase protein that takes over our manufacturing at the ribosome
to
make more viral genome well it turns out that the replicase has an area on it
that if zinc
attaches to it shuts it off so quercetin is called an inophore it carries
charged particles into the cell
otherwise zinc sits outside the cell so zinc without a xinophore that has that
a xinophore
inophore yeah zinc without an inophore it just it doesn't work correct
interesting so a lot of
these people that are just taking zinc on its own it doesn't get in the cell
right it doesn't go into
the cell yeah generally speaking it won't get into the cell at a high rate it
will over time get in
because we have things that we take in like bismuth in our system from fruits
and vegetables we have
egcg from green tea if people are drinking green tea we've got curcumin from
food that's why in india they
don't get it so they're getting some form of an inophore but if you want to
really jam the zinc into the
cells um use a quercetin or turmeric or and then move on to d3 um i'm taking 5
000 ius a day what do you
i personally take a little bit more than that how much you take 50 000 jesus
christ mondays and 10 or
20 000 on every other day that's a lot why i don't know yeah that's right most
people say i don't know
but is there any negative aspect uh yeah there are negative aspects to high
levels of vitamin d but
not due to vitamin d due to what it does what vitamin d does as i said earlier
is it brings calcium in
from your nutrition and takes phosphorus in so it can build bone calcium if it's
too high hyperkalemia
will cause the um nausea vomiting and can cause the irregularity of the heart
so if you're taking high
dosing of calcium for whatever reason and you take high dosing of vitamin d you
would be at risk for
developing nausea vomiting and toxicity a study that was done which is also on
the paper i gave you
they did 113 000 hospitalized people and they looked at their vitamin d level
they all had been taking
vitamin d they only found i think it was four people who had toxicity from
elevated levels of
vitamin d and it turned out it was the liquid form of vitamin d that created
the problem so from that
standpoint vitamin d is very safe and i'm talking up numbers that are 60 to 100
i try to keep my range
at 80 to 100 because of studies that have shown you take calcium no you don't
why i have it in my
nutrition and i monitor my calcium every six months in my blood work so if my
levels are where they
should be i'm fine okay so what do you look for in nutrition to get your
calcium from what are you
getting from um you know i eat cheese i my daughter pulled me off of cow's milk
and tried me on uh goat
cheese goat cheese she gives me all that stuff so um and my cheese i get it and
then you know there
are foods that i eat i chew on bones so i get a little calcium that way chew on
bones no i'm just
kidding but um because i take bone meal yeah yeah yeah allison makes a bone
broth yeah she makes bone
broth at home so it has good bone marrow you know protein and uh some calcium i
don't know how much calcium
you get from it but uh i monitor i'm getting it someplace in my nutrition so
for someone who has
osteoporosis let's let's look point to them they're uh recommended to take
calcium right correct now
they're taking calcium and they have vitamin d3 correct then they must be
careful about what the levels
of vitamin d3 they take correct and the what do you recommend to someone who's
taking calcium like
what what levels see i use the science i use the laboratory to tell me how much
you know i get ridiculed
by my colleagues because i'm giving everybody a baseline of 10 000 units and
they say oh that's
toxic it's going to call pro you go and do the blood test and you see giving
them 10 000 they get a
you know still suboptimal level of vitamin d it's because they're not absorbing
it
so i can't assume that 10 000 is going to give them toxic levels you know
calcium absorption
so i i start at uh five to ten thousand ten thousand seems to be the amount and
then their calcium they
get they have a uh a prescribed product which has calcium and vitamin d in a
balanced uh uh combination
already so um who makes that i don't remember which pharmaceutical i don't use
it you know it was the
issue with the liquid vitamin d yeah the only thing is with liquid vitamin yeah
but why do you think uh
because the absorption rate because it gets absorbed so well capsule encapsulated
you know it's fat
soluble you take it after a meal it gets absorbed and based upon how good the
gut is you know dysbiosis
it will regulate how you absorb it so i don't assume anything i'll put a
patient on a protocol and then
three months later i'll go and test them and see where their levels are at if
they're at a great level
on that amount that's perfect for them how do i know that whatever i'm giving
them is going to be too
much too little or perfect and then the level of absorption which will indicate
in their blood will
indicate like what levels are shown in the blood is directly related to their
diet as well correct
and the other nutrients are taking it's related to the status of their gut the
lining of their gut
it's relative to if they took it before food or during food with food it's a
fat soluble fat soluble
vitamins like vitamin e um vitamin d or hormone d uh or dhea they all need um
food to optimize the
absorption okay so so we got d3 which you take at very high levels but what do
you recommend 10 000
uh you need to have a blood test before we put anybody on vitamin d we don't
just abstractly you
know put them on a number right we check their levels and i've been absolutely
amazed at not only
the frequency of deficiency of vitamin d but the fact that i've got surfers who
have deficiency of
vitamin d how can you be a surfer out there in the sun and be vitamin d deficient
wetsuits right well
they wear maybe the top but their arms and legs below the belly is exposed four
hours i'd see a lot of
guys with full wetsuits out there because that pacific ocean it's cold as it's
cold it's cold yeah but
when they get out they lay down on the beach you know i think human beings need
a lot of sun
uh i think the genetics are changing yeah are they yeah i think so look at why
did we develop this whole
system of vitamin d the vitamin d receptor stimulates hair growth to cover our
body with hair to avoid the
ionizing radiation that our ancestors neolithic ancestors used to have they
were getting cancer
they were getting exposed to high levels because the air was clear there was no
smog back then so
they were getting full strength of the radiation from the sun and they were
dying so the body is
saying that smogs protecting us from cancer uh is that what you're saying
relative relative to sun
joe just piece it all together yeah so brilliant hong kong like we're not hong
kong like uh what
what are the chinese cities beijing beijing really bad i was there yeah i used
to work there that's
right the olympics there and they said it was like the worst air quality they've
ever had for the olympics
and the only way they got the air clear there was shutting down all the
manufacturing that's in the
one of the inner circles see beijing grew so rapidly that they have 10 rings
around it and i think in
the fourth or fifth ring is where they have all the manufacturing so when the
financial summit
happened they shut them all down air was clear absolutely clear and the silliest
thing i was
there for new year's one year in february and they shot off 45 million dollars
worth of um
rockets and fireworks and firecrackers and all that added pollution you couldn't
breathe
and i was on the 27th floor of a building couldn't breathe up there really yeah
it was pretty bad
pretty bad it's okay so um d3 yes we so we got quercetin we got uh zinc 30
milligrams twice a day
um or that's the that's a therapeutic therapeutic a thousand milligrams twice a
day with 30 twice a day of
zinc um then d3 figure out what the levels are but what you're taking is
somewhere i'm taking uh what
about uh 120 000 a week if someone doesn't have like a good place to go they
don't they don't have
a good doctor to go how do they find a doctor that could read their vitamin
levels on on their blood work
like what do you look for like if someone's listening to this like i should get
my blood work done who do
they go right well functional medicine is big now and in functional medicine
they're looking at your
amino acids they're looking at your vitamin levels they're looking at your
mineral levels
which need to be done we're not getting our minerals anymore because we're
getting
bottled water how many minerals are in here all of them yeah oh right zero is
well that's hard
water right like well water that's what people call it for the mountain hard
water run off for the
mountains i know but that's what hard water is right when you get that's high
in calcium hydroxide or
calcium oxide whatever it is calcium minerals in the water right yeah and uh
you can buy the minerals
and put a couple of drops into the bottle let's take colloidal colloidal that's
it um so you got your d3
you got your quercetin you got your zinc uh what about vitamin c uh vitamin c
helps with the immune
system um how much do you take um how much do you take i don't take uh vitamin
c really no what do you
take i have two or three pieces of citrus fruit that i grow in my backyard uh
every morning every now and
then uh allison will bring in some of the uh from here it's called strawberry
tex