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It is an egregious failure of the majority of medical professionals, immunologists, epidemiologists etc. that the whole world does not already know about the need for proper vitamin D3 supplementation, without which most people have only a fraction of the 25-hydroxyvitamin D their immune system needs to function properly.

Please read the research articles on vitamin D and the immune system which are cited and discussed at: https://vitamindstopscovid.info/00-evi/.

0.125 milligrams (5000 IU) a day is a good amount to take, on average, for normal weight adults. Below is a link to recommendations based on body weight and obesity status which are appropriate for every person, from infants to the elderly.

There's very little vitamin D3 in food, fortified or not. It can be generated by UV-B exposure of ideally white skin, but this is not available to most people far from the equator except in the middle of cloud-free summer days, without glass or sunscreen - and this UV-B damages DNA and so increases the risk of skin cancer.

Vitamin D3 cholecalciferol is hydroxylated, primarily in the liver, over several days, to become 25-hydroxyvitamin D calcifediol (AKA "calcidiol"). The kidneys need this, and so to many types of immune cell. Neither of these compounds function as hormones.

The third compound - 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D calcitriol is produced by the kidneys, to go into circulation in the bloodstream at a very low level (ca. 0.1 ng/mL) to hormonally signal to multiple cell types which are involved in calcium-phosphate-bone metabolism. This is the sole hormonal function of the three compounds. Individual immune cells can also generate calcitriol within themselves, when triggered to do so by cell-type specific conditions are detected by that individual cell. This calcitriol functions as an intracrine agent in that cell's intracrine signaling system, which changes its behaviour and so makes the cell respond properly to the detected condition. In some cell-types, some of this calcitriol diffuses to nearby cells, usually of different types, and affects their behaviour too. This is paracrine signaling. Neither of these signaling systems are hormonal, and they do not affect, nor are they affected, by the very low level of circulating calcitriol maintained by the kidneys.

Without proper vitamin D3 supplementation - in excess of the tiny amounts recommended by governments and many doctors (such as 0.015 mg 600 IU/day) - many white people, living far from the equator, have 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels only half of what their immune system needs to function properly.

In the absence of proper vitamin D3 supplementation, people with dark skin who live far from the equator have even lower 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels than the white skinned people who live there. This is probably the biggest preventable cause of the well known health disparities which afflict dark skinned and/or sun-avoidant people who live far from the equator.

To attain a healthy level of 25-hydroxyvitamin D circulating in the bloodstream without the need for blood tests or medical monitoring, without excessive UV-B skin exposure, it is necessary to take an average daily amount of supplemental vitamin D3 which is calculated as a ratio of body weight, with higher ratios for those suffering from obesity.

Please see such recommendations, from New Jersey based Professor of Medicine, at https://nutritionmatters.substack.com/p/how-much-vitamin-d3-to-take. These are his slight simplification, announced in an FLCCC podcast, of the recommendations in his 2022 article in Nutrition: "Rapidly Increasing Serum 25(OH)D Boosts the Immune System, against Infections - Sepsis and COVID-19": https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/14/14/2997.

For 70 kg (154 lb) body weight, without obesity, 0.125 milligrams (1/8000th of a gram = 5000 IU) vitamin D3 a day, on average, will attain a healthy 25-hydroxyvitamin D level: 50 ng/mL (125 nmol/L in the UK, Australia etc.) which is 1 part in 20,000,000 by mass. This is what is measured in "vitamin D" blood tests.

This level is higher than what most doctors think is necessary, because they are only aiming to attain what is needed for proper kidney function regarding regulating calcium-phosphate-bone metabolism: 20 ng/mL (50 nmol/L).

The scarily high sounding "5000 IUs" per day is a gram every 22 years - and pharma grade vitamin D3 costs about USD$2.50 a gram.

If everyone supplemented vitamin D3 sufficiently to attain at least the 50 ng/mL (125 nmol/L) circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D the immune system needs to work properly, then there would be numerous benefits, including:

1 - Little or no pandemic spread of COVID-19, including current more infectious variants, even in a population which had no immunity to SARS-CoV-2 due to prior infection or vaccination. Handwashing and not breathing, sneezing or coughing into most other people's faces are always good ideas, but there would be no need for masks, social distancing, lockdowns, real vaccines (Novavax) or the quasi-vaccine gene-therapy injections (Pfizer and Moderna mRNA - and AstraZeneca and J&J adenovirus vector).

There would be many fewer infected people, primarily due to each infected person having a less severe disease and so shedding fewer viruses. R0 would be below the pandemic level of 1.0 in almost all circumstances - the possible exceptions being people in confined spaces such as hospitals or submarines. Those infected would much more rarely need hospitalisation or die, assuming that inexpensive, generally safe, effective, treatments such as ivermectin were used in hospitals, or for outpatients with, or at significant risk of developing, serious symptoms.

2 - Likewise influenza and other infectious diseases.

3 - Greatly reduced rates of sepsis, which killed about 11 million people worldwide in 2017.

4 - Reduced risk of in-utero, peri-natal and neurodevelopmental problems including low birth weight, pre-eclampsia, autism, intellectual disability schizophrenia and ADHD: https://vitamindstopscovid.info/00-evi/#3.2.

5 - *Greatly* reduced risk of neurodegenerative disease: Parkinson's disease, dementia with Lewy bodies, multiple system atrophy, Alzheimer's disease etc.: https://vitamindstopscovid.info/00-evi/#3.3.

6 - Reduced risk and severity of numerous auto-immune diseases.

For clinical emergencies, such as sepsis, COVID-19, ARDS, Kawasaki disease and MIS-C, ordinary daily healthy vitamin D3 intakes make little difference, because it takes months to raise typical low 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels, such as 10 to 20 ng/mL, safely above 50 ng/mL.

For average weight adults, a single bolus dose of 10 milligrams (400,000 IU) vitamin D3 will raise 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels safely over 50 ng/mL after several days, due to time it takes to hydroxylate it in the liver. (Actually, only about 1/4 of ingested vitamin D3 goes into circulation as 25-hydroxyvitamin D). This would save many lives, but the best treatment, which almost every sufferer of these diseases desperately needs, is, for 70 kg 154 lb body weight, to give a single oral dose of about 1 milligram of calcifediol. This *is* 25-hydroxyvitamin D. It does not need to be processed in the liver, so it raises 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels safely over 50 ng/mL in 4 hours or less.

The details of this 0.014 mg / kg body weight calcifediol protocol are in Prof. Wimalawansa's article, and at: https://vitamindstopscovid.info/00-evi/#4.7.

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Great tip. Thank you. I have been taking 5000 iu of D with K2 but am 20 lbs overweight. Last year my D levels between 50-60. Should I take more? Need to share this with my pharmacologist friend.

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Assuming your body weight is 175 lb, this is 80 kilograms. Prof. Wimalawansa's recommendation for people who are underweight, normal weight or overweight is an average daily vitamin D3 supplemental intake of 70 to 90 IU per kg body weight. This is 5600 to 7200 IU a day. For those suffering from obesity I or II, he recommends 100 to 130 IU / day / kg body weight. This implies that those who are overweight should take on the high side of the 70 to 90 recommendation, or use 100 if they think they might be suffering from borderline obesity.

The aim of his recommendation is most or all people who follow them will, after several months, attain at least the 50 ng/mL circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D level their immune system needs to function properly. Many people will attain more than this - but few would attain more than twice this, since the body has self-limiting mechanisms which make it progressively harder to raise 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels.

You have attained 50 to 60 ng/mL with 5000 IU vitamin D3 a day. (Doctors in the UK, Australia, New Zealand and perhaps Canada use nmol/L for 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels, which are 2.5 the figure in nanograms per millilitre. So the target is at least 125 nmol/L.)

I am an electronic technician and computer programmer - not a doctor. Please refer to Prof. Wimalawansa's recommendations. My impression is that you are doing fine.

Vitamin K2, of the MK-7 form, such as 0.2 milligrams (200 micrograms) a day for average weight adults is widely regarded as helping maintain calcium in the bone and reducing the tendency of high (well beyond your level) 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels to take calcium out of the bone and raise calcium levels in the blood. (Beyond narrow limits, this is hypercalcemia, which causes serious long-term health problems.) I have not surveyed the research fully, but this is a good article to start with: https://www.hindawi.com/journals/jnme/2017/6254836/ and https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4566462/ .

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When I was working as a nurse practitioner, if I knew the person’s vitamin D level, I would advise the person to take 1000 IUs for every 10 ng/ml I wanted to raise his vitamin D level. For example, if he had a level of 40ng/ml, I would advise him to take 2000 IU/day to get him up to a level of about 60ng/ml. This was a simple formula that worked pretty well.

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Great essay Robin and further comments. Well researched. There was a study in, I believe Indonesia, in early 2020 that found that 99% of those hospitalized had low levels of vitamin d and recommended that everyone get their levels up. This study was ridiculed but subsequent studies have, as you indicated, confirmed it was right. Dr. Campbell had several videos on the effectiveness of vitamin d. The medical authorities ignored all these recommendations. Even Dr. Fauci acknowledged that he took 5000 units of vitamin d but he never promoted it. This is a video with Dr. Campbell and Dr. David Grimes on the benefits of vitamin d. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hO7fniCbmw Dr. Grimes is a pioneering researcher on vitamin d. Confirms what you have written. Everyone should get their vitamin d levels checked and work to get them up.

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My weight fluctuates between 140-145 for a 5 ft 2” 70 year old, otherwise generally healthy female who hasn’t been successful in achieving a desired 130 weight. I used to be 120 before I got my uterine cancer which required radiation. I also have have been dealing with chronic leg lymphedema and chronic leg cellulitis for over 20 years (due to a damaged lymphatic system from my pelvic radiation) and survived 5 sepsis infections in the last 10 years. Been on repetitive pill form and iv antibiotics for my frequent recurring leg cellulitis. The importance of vitamin D was revealed to me only within the last 4 years during the worlds COVID scare. I refused to submit to the the MRNA injections and was reading up on folks like Dr. McCullough. None of my Ivy League doctors educated me on maintaining a healthy level of D. A few times my endocrinologist put me on a short regimen D / 50,000 units daily. I need to find a functional medicine doctor in the Lancaster PA area. Two of my well respected NYC oncologists who I recently left due to my relocation just announced in the last 2 weeks that they’re closing their NYC upper east side private practices. Isn’t that weird?

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I am still grappling with the reality that many doctors do not care about their patients.

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I live in Saskatchewan, our average lifespan has dropped by 2 years since 2019 with all the excess deaths. There is no initiative I'm aware of to even look at why it's happening because our Health Authority is worried more about authority and pensions than health.

I've had a heart issue since being Pfizered and they did a few tests and say theres nothing wrong. But if i kick the bucket it's not like they will lose their pensions is it? Meanwhile I'm scared to move faster than a slow jog, because I feel like i may pass out.

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Mar 7·edited Mar 7

I remember some time around 2017 when JAMA came out with an article that basically said all the vitamin D and calcium supplementation had done nothing for bone density and to stop taking them. I didn't hear anything about vitamin D and the immune system until after the fake pandemic. Now I am suspicious that the advice to stop the supplementation was nefarious. I no longer blindly trust any "authoritative source".

Once the mask has slipped, you can never unsee what you're seen.

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Yet another of hundreds of studies proving the effectiveness against covid of such treatments as VIT D, ivermectin, HCQ, the McCullough protocols, the Zelenko protocol and others.

As you have stated over and over, 2/3 to 3/4 of covid hospitalizations and deaths could have been prevented with these treatments.

Fauci, Collins, Hotez, CDC and FDA doctors and hundreds of other doctors who falsely discredited and blocked these treatments are guilty of mass assault and murder in my mind.

One analogy is an adult who watches a baby crawl to a pool and fall into the water, and makes no effort to stop the baby or jump in to save it. Every rational person considers this a crime, depraved and horrific.

Is there any real difference between this crime and what those doctors have done - other than the millions of people harmed or killed by the lies told by these doctors?

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In other words, per Dr. DeSimone, "Be sure to get poisoned with an experimental mRNA injection for which the acute, sub-acute, & long-term effects are completely unknown, & for which the companies making them are completely shielded from liability, for an infection with a 99.7% recovery rate". Makes perfect sense (not).

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In May of 2020 I stumbled on a Dr Louis Coates out of Dallas via FB that encouraged a daily regiment of D, zinc, CoQ10, NAC, quercetin, and vit c. I feel it prepared my compromised immune system well for Delta in late ‘21 and Omicron 3 months later. Dr Coates’ regiment gave me confidence to not cave when being pressured to vaccinate.

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Dr. McCullough- Love everyone to stop referring to the experimental MRNA shots as vaccines. In your articles so more can understand please add "not vaccines" but experimental MRNA shots in parenthesis.

God Bless you Dr. McCullough.

Happily financially supporting your foundation.

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Many thanks for your support. Recently Dr Karina Acevedo-White coined the term “vaxgenes”. What is your reaction? https://www.americaoutloud.news/vaxgenes-do-you-choose-to-understand/

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I also don’t like people calling them “gene therapies” because there is nothing therapeutic about them.

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I refer to them as experimental gene-editing injections.

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Peter!!!!!!! Please see the figures:

Association Between Preoperative 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Level and Hospital-Acquired Infections Following Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Surgery

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamasurgery/fullarticle/1782085

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This is an extraordinarily important article from 2014. If doctors and immunologists had been taking proper notice of the work of leading vitamin D researchers, they would have all read this article and would then have told the whole world about it by the end of 2015. Then, ideally, most people would have adopted the proper vitamin D3 supplementation which they need to attain at least 50 ng/mL circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D.

Association Between Preoperative 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Level and Hospital-Acquired Infections Following Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Surgery

Sadeq A. Quraishi, MD, MHA; Edward A. Bittner, MD, PhD; Livnat Blum, BA; Mathew M. Hutter, MD, MPH; Carlos A. Camargo Jr, MD, DrPH

JAMA Surg. 2014;149(2):112-118 (Actually published on 2013-11-23)

jamanetwork.com/journals/jamasurgery/fullarticle/1782085

This research shows that the risk of post-operative infections, separately of two kinds: hospital acquired infections and surgical site infections, depended very strongly on the pre-operative 25-hydroxyvitamin D level. The two graphs are only in the PDF, not the website version of the article.

A single graph depicting their results is at: https://vitamindstopscovid.info/00-evi/#00-50ngmL .

The 770 patients at Massachusetts General Hospital were all suffering from morbid obesity and had the same Roux-en-Y gastric bypass operation, which closes off most of their stomach and puts ingested food directly into a lower part of their upper intestine, without this being controlled by the stomach sphincter. This is to reduce food absorption and so help them loose weight. (I think this operation is a very bad idea, but the wisdom or not of the operation is not relevant to the researcher's findings.)

With pre-operative 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels of 50 ng/mL (125 nmol/L) or more, the risk of each of these two types of infection was about 2.5%. The further the patients' 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels were below 50 ng/mL, the greater the risk of both types of infection. At about 18 ng/mL (which is a common level in winter for white Americans who do not supplement vitamin D), the risk of each type of infection rose tenfold: to 25%.

Those with dark or black skin and/or sun-avoidant lifestyles (and obesity reduces 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels) often have levels as low as 10 ng/mL, at which the risk of each kind of infection rose to 40%.

There might have been a small amount of confounding, such as generally healthier people happening to have higher 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels due to more sun or vitamin D3 supplementation, and that general health, rather than the higher 25-hydroxyvitamin D level reducing their risk of infection. However, the great majority of this very strong association is surely directly due to the immune system not having sufficient supplies of 25-hydroxyvitamin D for its cells to run their intracrine and paracrine signaling systems.

This gross immune system dysfunction begins at 50 ng/mL and gets progressively worse the lower the 25-hydroxyvitamin D level. These results show dysfunction of those immune responses which tackle the bacteria which cause these infections. The same is surely true of immune responses which tackle cancer cells, fungi and viruses.

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Old news. The FLCCC folks figured that out a long time ago. Yet the protocol was to lock everyone indoors… during Spring/Summer time, especially the elderly. Hmm. Surprised the FDA didn’t put out a note about how D is bad for you. Remember we are not “horses y’all”.

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This doctor is an embarrassment. He even mentioned disinfecting surfaces when even the CDC acknowledged this has no role. Viruses need a live host; either human or animal. And as for the masking, does he not read any literature?

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The Mayo clinic is more aligned with big pharma than the true health of the people. How depressing. There must be more good people than bad, but where are they?

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My Aunt went to the Mayo Clinic When she was two years old and got great care back in 1915. They used to be a wonderful place to go for any problem that was a challenge for lesser doctors. NOT ANY MORE, sadly. Hard to know who to trust, easier to know who you can't trust. You can trust the Bible, even the Hippocratic Oath is better than what is happening today.

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This has been reported in many places, such as

5 X less COVID infection of health care workers who took lots of vitamin D – meta-analysis Feb 2024

https://vitamindwiki.com/5+X+less+COVID+infection+of+health+care+workers+who+took+lots+of+vitamin+D+%E2%80%93+meta-analysis+Feb+2024

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D3 can probably also stop Covid if one is newly exposed and exhibits symptoms. In this case large doses for several days - 50-100iu per day - would be needed. I have used this technique for about 8 years with approx. 75% success on beginning colds and flus. The times it failed seemed to be associated with the virus having already been in my body for too lengthy a period before I began treatment. The protocol called "the hammer" is written up in the medical literature but is not widely known even to many vitamin "gurus". The past two+ years I have instead used zinc + quercetin daily as a preventative and for me this has worked 100%. Of course I still take maintenance doses of D3.

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Vitamin D-hammer option to flatten the COVID-19 curve - July 22, 2021

https://vitamindwiki.com/tiki-index.php?page_id=12761

Influenza prevented by 40 ng levels or treated with vitamin D hammer (50,000 IU) – June 2015

https://vitamindwiki.com/tiki-index.php?page_id=6630

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And the medical establishment continues to publish studies “proving” that vitamin D has no benefit in regards to COVID. And the government’s idea of vitamin D insufficiency is a blood level of less than 30.

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Just as our federal health officials claimed that hydroxychloroquine & ivermectin were either ineffective or dangerous for treating covid. In this article, pay particular attention to the data from India, as opposed to the other named countries (U.S., UK, Sweden)... https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/03/more_proof_that_covid_killed_medical_ethics.html

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Exactly. The establishment does not want people to have access to cheap, generic treatments such as ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine. Nor do they want you to think that something as simple as a nutritional supplement will be of any benefit. Just as the article that Dr. McCullough posted from the Mayo Clinic, they want you to feel the need to get the COVID jabs and be treated with the newest highly expensive Big Pharma drugs.

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The Role of Vitamin D3 as Rat Poison and Weigh Loss Pills... Codex Alimentarious: Synthetic Vitamins & GMO Removes Nutrients https://nurembergtrials.net/nuremberg-trials-2-0/f/codex-alementarious-synthetic-vitamins-gmo-removes-nutrients Pick Your Poison! VITAMIN D3ATH: Vitamin D-D3 is Rat Poison https://nurembergtrials.net/nuremberg-trials-2-0/f/pick-your-poison-vitamin-d3ath-vitamin-d-d3-is-rat-poison

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The "Chief Justice of Nuremberg 2.0" recently tried to smear vitamin D3 supplementation with broad-brush, ill-informed, fear-porn material at his Substack: https://nuremberg2.substack.com/p/google-doodle-casimir-funks-140th. The amount of vitamin D3 cholecalciferol which poisons a rat, as a ratio of body weight, is far, far higher than the ratio which is helpful for most humans.

He also had a go at ivermectin and denied the existence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus: ". . . the Covid virus, which doesn't even exist."

This did not go down well with commenters, including myself. His critique of ivermectin - that it was used as cockroach poison - was not entirely wrong, in that ivermectin includes molecules which have been artificially transformed to be more effective, as an anti-helminthic drug for mammals, than the original form. See my comments at the above article for the scientific references on this.

The claim that the SARS-CoV-2 virus does not exist is as stupid as the claim that there is no such thing as a virus. (Why waste effort on other words, if "stupid" has any meaning at all, it applies to these claims, which could only be true if decades of research into viruses was 100% fraud or delusional.)

However, the "Chief Justice of Nuremberg 2.0" did leave these highly critical comments in place. Not so constructive (as I wrote in those comments) was NZ medical doctor Sam Bailey who not only deleted my comment to her bemoaning the lack of response to her claim that viruses don't exist, but also unsubscribed me and prevented me from resubscribing. There was no notice of this - I discovered it later. I don't mind being unsubscribed from her Substack, but her lack of acknowledgement of this suppression of debate for those who read her Substack is at odds with her claim to be so scientific.

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Show me where Alex Jones and your friends point out "how much to take" of their D3 Rat Poison, and Ivermectin that is the active ingredient in RAID and Roach Motels. Hitler used to spray people with DDT and Gasoline... How much should they spray? As for HCQ, Bleech + Sulfur, how much should I inject, and how often? Cuomo said to take a bath in Bleech, ... how much should I dump in the bathtub?

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I suspect it might be a good idea to spell bleach correctly

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I suspect it's even more important not to mix bleech with amoonia, "chlorine dioxide"; because Mike Adams says he puts that in his "smuthies". But, doesn't say "how much" or "how often". Be sure you read the layble.

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LOL!! Good one.

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He was probl'y borne breech.

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Mayo can't do as you suggest because that would be an admission of responsibility for it's own part of the "vaccine " tragedy. It would also require humility which is in short supply in medicine.

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