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In this interview, Brian Hoyer — one of the primary consultants for my latest book, “EMF*D” — discusses how electromagnetic field (EMF) radiation may be impacting the COVID-19 epidemic and your infection risk. Many have raised questions about whether there is a connection between 5G and this pandemic.

In some ways, the connection between COVID-19 and 5G is a moot issue. In other ways, it’s not. Either way, it’s tangential to what you need to do now to protect yourself and your family from here on out. At the time of this interview, which took place March 31, 2020, a vast majority of those who have died from COVID-19 were elderly.

Those who died in China and Italy under the age of 50 have generally been encumbered with obesity, diabetes and hypertension, with insulin resistance being the common denominator. Very few under the age of 19 are affected.

That said, the infection appears to be more aggressive than influenza in older individuals, and the illness lasts longer than the regular flu. So, there’s enhanced virulence to this virus for some reason we yet do not understand. While unproven, one current theory is that EMF radiation — and the addition of 5G in particular — could be having an impact.

Electrification and Global Illness

Hoyer cites data from Dr. Arthur Firstenberg’s book, “The Invisible Rainbow,”¹ in which he catalogued epidemiological evidence showing that as electrification of the world was implemented, throughout the course of history, viral pandemics ensued.

“The big one in there that's been cited on the internet about possible connection to 5G is, if you go back to 1918 when the Spanish flu went around the world, that was when the first radio telegraphs were more widely used.

You see the Spanish flu popping up all over the world, but [not] in a way [that would suggest] we are passing it from person to person, but [it popped up on] one side of the world to the other side of the world very quickly.

Today, we wouldn't know if that's happening because we travel so frequently. And there are theories out there about how viruses actually transmit from person to person … That said, what we have is probably the unhealthiest population in the history of mankind … as far as chronic conditions … We also have more sterility …

But we also have more practices of separation and decontamination, and all of those things are better than ever before. So why is this virus spreading so rapidly?

I believe it has to be the terrain of the individual and also environmental stressors that are creating this perfect storm where a virus has an easy way to get into the body and can actually reproduce on the cellular level inside of the human body. Which is really how viruses work. It's not the same as bacteria. I think a lot of people have that false sense that a virus is just a smaller version of a bacteria.”

Viral Pandemics Coincide With Increases in EMF Exposure

In his book, Firstenberg brings up this concept that there is a connection between EMF and influenza. And, this connection existed far before the advent and introduction of man-made EMFs, which probably happened in very small quantities in the late 18th century.

But, he also describes something called the maunder minimum, which lasted from 1645 to 1715. Essentially, this was a period of time when the sun was very quiet and had very few or no sun spots.

Then, in 1727, the number of sun spots increased to over 100 for the first time in over a century. Now, I know this is ancient history, but it's important to understand that because in 1728, influenza arrived in waves over the entire planet and it was the first flu pandemic in almost 150 years.

So, this is the first hint, at least historically, that there might be a connection between EMF and viral illness because, in the solar flare, you're going to have increased radiation. The next major pandemic was in 1889, and the interesting part of this, which Hoyer mentioned, is that this infection was established pretty much everywhere all at once.

We obviously did not have transcontinental flights the way we did in the current COVID-19 disease. It appears to have emerged in Wuhan City, China, where, incidentally, 5G had recently been rolled out, but millions of people traveled in and out of that area and on to other parts of the world.

Well, the 1889 epidemic took place at a time when we didn’t have the ability to travel very fast or far. Yet, the pandemic emerged very rapidly in widely scattered regions around the world. Interestingly, in 1889, we saw the emergence of what Firstenberg calls power line harmonics. According to Firstenberg, that changed the Earth's magnetic field, ushering in the 1889 influenza pandemic.

Next, there was the Spanish flu of 1918, which also spread far more rapidly than it could or should have were it spread through travel. In 1918, radio was the emerging technology. Firstenberg’s revised edition also mentions 5G technology.

In summary, his book builds a case for the theory that increases in EMFs, natural or man-made, might make us more susceptible or sensitive to viral illnesses. If natural EMF exposures have the ability to influence our biology, it’s not so hard to imagine that man-made exposures might have an exponential impact. Hoyer adds:

“Things are happening now that have never happened before. We [have] a lot of people who are electrosensitive. One of the things they report is that … they feel sick during lightning storms with influenza-type symptoms. Flashes of lightning create a radio frequency. It’s called microwave sickness in the literature.

A lot of people call it electromagnetic hypersensitivity or electrosensitivity, but in a lot of the literature, you have to look up microwave sickness … Then you'll find these references to when storms come, when solar flares are active, people are getting more and more symptoms.

A Depression is a huge thing that happens when there's more solar radiation and also during a full moon even. So, there's a lot of natural electromagnetic radiation that happens. Most of that is gradual, but with the radio frequency (RF) lightning pulses, those are definitely a pulsed phenomenon … I think it's in the kilohertz range. But it varies … it's never the same frequency, it's always different.

You'll actually hear it when the lightning goes off and if you have a really sensitive meter, when you turn on and off light switches, you can hear the arcing and there's an RF that transmits out from that arcing that happens … Solar flares … can affect all types of electronics and can cause electromagnetic interference, and that is technically in the kilohertz to megahertz range.”

We Don’t Know What We Haven’t Studied

A significant problem with man-made EMFs is that they’re pulsed. We are also surrounded by RF radiation, both analog RF signals from radio stations and pulsed RF signals.

“A lot of times I wonder, ‘What would a real study look like if you have the 50 Hz to 60 Hz modulation and the RF and everything?’ Usually, in these studies, they're just testing one thing in a controlled environment.

They're never testing the entire soup that we're constantly bathed in as human beings. We're the big experiment here and they're just testing one thing at a time in this Western medicine type of fashion,” Hoyer notes.

With regard to COVID-19, underlying health conditions clearly appear to play a role. However, we don’t know whether the use of certain drugs might have a bearing on the severity of the disease and its outcome.

For example, while French doctors say they’ve noticed a pattern that patients given ibuprofen fared worse than those given acetaminophen, their findings have been largely ignored simply because there are no studies to prove it.

When did clinical findings become useless? If anything, clinical suspicions should be rapidly considered and acted upon during an active pandemic when time is of the essence. At this time, we really need to listen to the medical professionals in the field who are treating patients.

Link Between 5G Implementation and COVID-19 Hotspots?

During a March 12, 2020, lecture at the Health and Human Rights Summit in Tucson, Arizona, Dr. Thomas Cowan likely stunned the audience by bringing up a potential connection between 5G and COVID-19.

By and large, many of the areas hardest hit by COVID-19 have recently implemented 5G which, at least theoretically, might render residents more prone to serious infection by lowering their immune function.

Cowan also presents the theory that COVID-19 and other influenza epidemics are not transmitted from person to person but, rather, are the result of cellular toxicity, including but not limited to EMF-induced cellular toxicity.

To be clear, I’m not saying 5G spreads the infection or is a vector of infection. But by lowering your natural immune defenses and causing chronic inflammation, it is likely impairing your innate immune system’s ability to fight off the coronavirus. Naturally, this increased susceptibility to illness would apply to all disease, both acute and chronic, and would not be limited to COVID-19.

Exaggerated EMF exposure may well be a hidden variable that could be contributing to the reason why so many people get sick in particular areas. Intense EMF exposure could be the proverbial straw that breaks the camel's back, meaning the factor that breaks the immune system.

“[Cowan] is a top-notch doctor, he's on the cutting edge,” Hoyer says. “In that video, he talks about Wuhan as one of the testing grounds for 5G, where 5G was first implemented in China. And what's interesting about Italy … is that Milan — the Lombardi area of Italy where two-thirds of the cases are — is considered the 5G capital of the European Union according to Vodafone, which is the big 5G carrier out there …

If you go on Vodafone's website, you can see the 5G map, and it's sprinkled throughout all Milan and Lombardi, that province up there. So that is definitely a more concentrated area. On top of that, you have all of the older population in Italy, and people that are likely fully buying into the Western medicine and are on [multiple] medications — those sorts of things.

The way that all of those medications are interacting, combined with the 5G stress and the electromagnetic stress, I think it's no wonder everyone's immune system is suppressed and they're so susceptible. It's the terrain that's the problem, the environmental stress.

We can actually kind of control that ourselves. Getting off of our phones and working to shield our environment will help to strengthen our immune system. Then taking some … supplements can take to help boost your immune system …

So, there's 5G in Milan, in Wuhan, and New York City is one of the highest, most intense [5G] areas I've seen, and Seattle … But 5G doesn't matter so much to me. It's about the intensity of the EMF. New York was basically as intense as a 5G area already, before 5G was implemented, in my opinion. It maxes out all of our meters wherever I go. There are hidden antennas everywhere in New York City.

[Seattle] has a lot of hills in the city, and right on Queen Anne, there are two huge radio towers with probably 100 antennas on them, just blasting the whole city. We've had assessments there where we've maxed out [our meters], and even shielded rooms upstairs and it still maxed out.

So, we have to do a complete covering of the floor, the ceiling and the walls, and be really strict about how we're doing the shielding over the windows so that everything is sealed almost perfectly, like a true perfect Faraday cage. In most homes we don't have to do an absolutely perfect Faraday cage, with all the electrical connections and no gaps whatsoever. We can still dial it down to where the levels are low enough.

But in places where it's really intense, we have to use different strategies in order to make it so that there's absolutely no gaps … The exponential pressure of all that EMF radiation that can leak in through a tiny hole is really important in those more saturated areas …

Some people watching this will be like, ‘Oh, EMF is the cause of everything.’ That's not what I'm saying at all. But it definitely weakens our immune systems. Martin Pall's research shows one mechanism for how that happens and … we know how electric the body is.

I mean, the heart communicates with the brain through an electromagnetic pulse, that's been proven with the HeartMath studies … You can [find] fascinating articles on there about how we physiologically depend on different voltage changes in order for our body to function optimally.

Just to think that there are people out there that believe this environment we've created does not affect us — it's insane when you start to read some of these studies about how our body uses voltage to heal and to function.”

How to Protect Yourself Now

I’ve published a series of suggestions on how to minimize your risk of COVID-19, including the use of sauna, nebulized hydrogen peroxide, vitamin C, ozone, melatonin and other nutraceuticals.

My favorite supplement of all, which I believe is particularly useful at this time, is molecular hydrogen tablets. The tablets are made of metallic magnesium, which when placed in water dissociates into magnesium ions, not a salt like magnesium oxide or magnesium threonate.

It's just simple pure magnesium, which doesn't have a laxative effect, and molecular hydrogen gas — both of which are extraordinarily useful for mitigating the negative effects and impacts of EMF.

I think almost everyone would benefit from them. The beautiful thing about molecular hydrogen is that it's a selective antioxidant. Unlike most traditional antioxidants that indiscriminately reduce most free radicals, molecular hydrogen merely helps activate endogenous antioxidants to reduce the damage from the NRLP3 inflammasome activation.

The magnesium, meanwhile, acts as a calcium channel blocker, which helps mitigate the damage from the EMF exposure. So, it helps in many different ways. I think it's one of the best strategies during this epidemic.

I recommend taking two tablets in water once a day (twice if you have heavy exposure either to COVID-19 or EMFs). Ideally, you want to pulse your intake, as consuming it regularly doesn’t seem to work as well. You need to pulse it to get the benefit because there needs to be a change in the concentration in your system.

As for lowering your EMF exposure, you can download a free chapter from my book, “EMF*D” that summarizes most of the major recommendations. I also review the most important considerations in “The No. 1 Thing to Do to Protect Yourself From EMFs.”

Hoyer is also working on videos demonstrating how to use shielded paint and other remediation strategies, so keep an eye out for those on his website, ShieldedHealing.com.

“Many are at home right now. You have time to do this. Our company stocked up on shielding paint before [the COVID-19 pandemic] so we don't have to import it anymore. It would be a good time to take on a [remediation] project. Beyond that, things you can do right now is get off your cellphone. Your cellphone is a walking cellphone tower. I always have mine on airplane mode …”

Be Mindful of Symptoms of EMF Sensitivity

The most important area to shield is your bedroom, as that is where you spend your nights — the time when your body is going through its most valuable regeneration and healing processes. Sleeping in an EMF-free environment can go a long way toward avoiding electrosensitivity, which by the way tends to come on very rapidly, in many cases seemingly “overnight.”

Common symptoms of electromagnetic hypersensitivity include ringing in the ears, a feeling of burning or prickling in the skin, headache, heart palpitations and inexplicable anxiety, for example. Once you’re electrosensitive, additional and more extensive remediation strategies may become necessary.

Again, it may not be 5G per se that breaks down the immune system, but rather that the total EMF burden simply exceeds the tolerable threshold of many individuals.

“It involves a lot of detox of different heavy metals [and chemicals],” Hoyer explains. “There's a chemical load, there's heavy metal load. There's all types of stressors that we need to reduce to make a person less electrosensitive. We're getting more and more sensitive as a species and eventually we'll hit a tipping point — perhaps once you add a virus that we've never had exposure to before …

You have to wonder, is this the tipping point? Not necessarily 5G? Is this virus and even 4G the tipping point? I wonder about that. I know 5G is adding more saturation of these frequencies, but we really need to get to a point where we understand that, at least in the bedroom, we need to be shielded. If you're still reacting to things, you have to do more work.”

On 5G Frequencies

As explained by Hoyer, EMF shielding materials are capable of blocking about 99% of the harmful frequencies we’re exposed to, but not the lower frequencies associated with the Schumann resonance, which are associated with healing. He also points out that:

“A lot of people equate 5G with millimeter waves (MMW). That's absolutely not the case in my opinion. I've tested … frequencies all the way up to 23.5 gigahertz (GHz) with 3G and 4G as back haul transmitters. Satellite TV is 12 to 18 GH.

The 5G frequencies they're going to be using, or are using in some areas, are point-to-point communication right now … it's laser pointed. I had a meter that measured MMWs and I took it to Los Angeles and Austin, Texas.

I didn't detect anything in Austin where 5G was live. In Los Angeles, there were some neighborhoods where I barely detected something, but I had to point my receiver directly at the antenna to get it. If I was even a centimeter off, I would not detect it.

So [5G antennas] are like laser pointed frequencies from what I can tell with the testing that I did. And most of the 5G frequencies we're being exposed to are going to be below 6 GHz. That's what's going to be communicating with our devices if you choose to get a 5G device, which I would recommend not to do …

We have much more saturation, like in Houston, there's 3.5 GHz on every telephone pole. That's a higher frequency than 2.4 so it's faster. Five GHz on your router is faster. Some people report more symptoms from 5 GHz router versus 2.4 GHz and vice versa. It seems to be frequency dependent.

What's interesting is the lower the frequency, down to 50 or 60 megahertz (MHz), the more it resonates with the human body. The size of the human body you're getting in around 60 to 80 MHz range is about 6 foot. That's what your body will resonate with.

On any meter where I measure this, I measure it with a real-time spectrum analyzer. You can actually see the rise and you're using your body as an antenna much more from about 60 MHz all the way up to around 900 MHz, sometimes in up to 1500 MHz you can still see this antenna effect on the body.

But the higher frequencies don't resonate as much with the conductance of the skin. So, your skin does provide a slight Faraday cage against the higher frequencies, but these lower frequencies definitely penetrate, including T-Mobile's 600 MHz 5G frequency, which goes further and can penetrate deeper into tissue and through forests and everything.”

What Will 42,000 Satellites Do to the Earth?

SpaceX, which currently has about 400 low-Earth orbiting satellites, has obtained permission to put 42,000 satellites into orbit in order to provide the whole world with 5G coverage. The exact ramifications of this saturation remain to be seen, but I’m not particularly optimistic. Hoyer comments:

“SpaceX has about 400 satellites up. That was the number Elon Musk wanted to start … testing the network. That could turn on at any time. So those of us out there who are electrosensitive are paying attention and reading the news on that.

Amazon … Facebook [and] companies in the U.K. and Canada also have petitions to put up satellites, so it's not just SpaceX … But SpaceX is looking at doing 42,000 satellites. They just got approved by the government for 1 million antennas on the ground, to work with the satellites. That is what I'm much more concerned about than the stuff beaming down from above, because they’re closer …”

I think a lot of people are very concerned. I almost see this apocalyptic look on people's faces when we talk about the Starlink and the satellites … like we're not going to be protected at all. It's just going to be everywhere.

Well, I think that's true, but even the satellite dishes that we have for television and cable, you have to have a dish that collects that signal and concentrates it up. So, they're actually pretty weak signals coming from above. It's not like they're completely blasting you with a laser beam down.

But like I was saying, the 1 million antennas on the ground, that's what I'm much more concerned about. And then the devices that we and our neighbors have, those are very concerning. If you have a metal roof, that's going to protect you somewhat from a lot of the different frequencies that are beaming down … I'm much more concerned about the stuff that's way closer to us.”

Compassion for Each Other Is Paramount

As noted by Hoyer, we need to have more compassion in general for those who are immune compromised. Clearly, they need to be protected from SARS-CoV-2. But they also need to be protected from wireless frequencies and EMF exposure, and few give this a single thought.

“Many of these older people grew up in an environment where they didn't have nearly as much EMF exposure. There's still some of these older people who grew up in places that didn't even have electricity.

So, just thinking about the irony of that whole thing gives me this sense of wanting to have more compassion for our fellow man, and also the tragedy of the social distancing that we have as well. I would love to have a solution to remedy that, but I'm just going to keep trucking on and doing what I do best and help people.”

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In this interview, Dr. Dominik Nischwitz, author of “It's All in Your Mouth: Biological Dentistry and the Surprising Impact of Oral Health on Whole Body Wellness,” discusses his “all-in-one” holistic treatment program, and why addressing your oral health can have far-reaching whole body benefits.

Nischwitz is a biological dentist, like his father before him, and has served as president of the International Society of Metal Free Implantology (ISMI) since 2019.

As a child, Nischwitz “was always a little bit sick” and was frequently treated with antibiotics for recurrent throat infections. At the age of 14, his wisdom teeth were extracted. Age 15 brought on appendicitis and severe acne, which were also treated with antibiotics for months at a time.

“I thought it was normal to be just a little sick and then a little healthy … Then they wanted to take out my tonsils when I was 16. My mom said, ‘Ah, let's get a second opinion. Go to this naturopathic doctor’ … He tested me with kinesiology and … told me, ‘You're just allergic to milk … This is an allergy.’

[Removing milk] helped. My tonsils are still in there and it took me a few more years to actually look into dentistry. I was [doing] civil service at a Red Cross as a paramedic … and you have to do an internship in the clinic.

Maybe it's coincidence. They put me in dental clinic ... I applied to university, made the cut, and started without knowing anything. Finally, I got interested [in health] … because at the same time, I was starting to work out. I just wanted to perform better.”

Following the advice given in a bodybuilding magazine, Nischwitz started eating 3,000 calories a day to gain mass. Little did he know all calories are not equal, and after a year of eating noodles and tuna, he’d gained 20 kilos (about 44 pounds), although it wasn’t all muscle.

“I didn't know it was health that I was missing. I was just focusing on performance and of course muscle gain. Maybe it was just an aesthetic thing, but I learned everything I could about nutrition ...

I tried every possible diet. I used every supplement. I was the guy in university who had his box of food always with him, not even knowing that it maybe was also too much carbs … But I learned a lot from this.”

Eventually, Nischwitz learned about the effects dental amalgam has on health, which “totally clicked with everything nutrition-wise” he was learning. “Every minute in my residency when I wasn't drilling out amalgam fillings, I was searching the internet for stuff to remove, to detox, how the liver phases work, basically, everything possible,” he says. “I was really curious to find real solutions.”

The All-in-One Concept of Health

Nischwitz now focuses on what he calls an “all-in-one concept” of health, starting with the mouth.

“Your teeth are organs that are connected to your whole nervous system and basically are part of your brain, kind of like your eyes,” he says. “You have this massive brain nerve there called the trigeminal nerve. It's one of the 12 cranial nerves and takes up 50% of the space of all the other ones, so it's quite important.”

To get started, patients will send him their current panoramic X-rays, a medical questionnaire, and their vitamin D3 and LDL blood work to provide some basic knowledge of their health.

Next, the patient must be properly prepared through nutrition and other lifestyle changes. “It's basically the same stuff you would do for a patient of every other functional medicine doctor. Go as natural as possible,” Nischwitz says.

His book contains two charts, one red and one green. The red chart describes common food intolerances and food toxins, and their alternatives. All patients are asked to go grain- and dairy-free. The green chart lists healthy carbohydrates, healthy fats and proteins to add to your diet.

Nischwitz has also developed a Bone Healing Protocol that includes certain micronutrients and focuses on high doses of vitamin D3. Vitamin D levels, for example, should ideally be above 60 nanograms per milliliter (ng/mL), and if your levels are low to begin with, you may need to take a supplement for several months before your treatments begin. The protocol also stresses magnesium, vitamin K2, vitamin C and B vitamins.

“So, they come into this health optimization week already immunologically boosted,” Nischwitz. “The nervous system is already very good. What we're trying to achieve then is bring the patient from chronic sympathetic nervous system mode into parasympathetic [mode] …”

Removing Oral Factors That Interfere With Health

Nischwitz’s all-in-one treatment plan includes removing or addressing oral interference such as:

After surgery, Nischwitz prepares a “food design” or “lifestyle concept” plan for each patient, based on body composition, metabolism and so on.

More Information

Nischwitz firmly believes cavities and resulting problems can be avoided altogether by following an optimized lifestyle program where you’re getting ideal levels of sun exposure, nutrition, and avoid toxins and certain dietary culprits such as gluten and dairy.

“This is why it's so important that all this information comes out,” he says. “And that's why I devoted a whole chapter to the nutritional part. Basically, biological dentistry, I would say, is an overlap of functional medicine, biohacking and high tech dentistry with the goal of optimal health. I'm a big fan of the basics, and the goal is [changing] the lifestyle …

Everybody talks about leaky gut, but nobody talks about leaky gum. The gum tissue, the gingiva, is the same tissue, it's squamous tissue. And if you have a chronic gingivitis, for example, just from a lack of nutrients or maybe from the wrong [dental] restorations, you will have an opening into your system because the gingiva is outside.

Your bacteria cannot go really inside [the tooth], but if there’s an opening in the gum or if you have a titanium implant where the tissue doesn't grow on top, you will always have a huge gap … and all these bacteria, mainly anaerobic bacteria, will travel into your system. This is basically leaky gum. [The problem] starts there, because the gut basically starts in your mouth.”

Nischwitz also stresses the importance of a natural birth (whenever possible) and breastfeeding, as this is really important for proper jaw formation. Breastfeeding requires far greater strength than sucking formula from a bottle, so sucking on the breast develops the lower jaw and muscles, and ensures the proper development of the baby’s palate.

“This is the fulfilling part for me — that I can help you optimize your health. And this is also the challenge that I put onto all my patients; they have to change their lifestyle. Otherwise, we don't even accept them because then they won’t have good results.”

To learn more, be sure to pick up a copy of “It's All in Your Mouth: Biological Dentistry and the Surprising Impact of Oral Health on Whole Body Wellness.” You can also find more information about Nischwitz’ practice on his website, DNA Health & Aesthetics. Other resources include his YouTube channel and Instagram.

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Obesity is a condition defined by a marked accumulation of excess fat. Fat that grows just below the skin, called subcutaneous fat, is the kind that jiggles and wiggles. A second type can accumulate around your internal organs; this is called visceral fat.

Both can trigger health problems ranging from numerous types of chronic disease to potentially life-threatening conditions. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicates your risk of 13 types of cancer increase when you are overweight or obese. These account for about 40% of all diagnosed cancers.¹

Obesity contributes to the development of heart disease as it can lead to diabetes, increase your risk of high blood pressure, change the balance of your cholesterol levels² and lead to metabolic syndrome.³ Other health risks include lower brain volume, bone and joint challenges, sleep apnea, liver problems and gallstones.⁴

According to the CDC, the prevalence of obesity rose from 30.5% in 2000 to 42.4% in 2018.⁵ Many use their body mass index (BMI) to determine if they are overweight or obese. This is a mathematical formula that uses height and weight to determine obesity.

In some cases, large muscle mass may skew the BMI and result in a false positive. In addition, your BMI doesn't help identify risks related to excess fat. A better method of determining your risk is calculating your waist-to-hip ratio since it indicates the presence of visceral fat, which your BMI will tell you nothing about.

Molecule in Oranges May Hold One Key to Addressing Obesity

One of the reasons low-fat diets became popular was because 1 gram of fat has more than twice the number of calories as 1 gram of carbohydrates — 9 versus 4.⁶ This led people to believe they could eat more carbohydrates and still maintain their weight or even lose weight. But years of data have revealed the opposite is true.

A diet heavy in carbohydrates increases your hunger and causes you to eat even more food. The rising number who struggle with being overweight and obese has prompted the study of phytonutrients found in plant foods.

Researchers from Western University in Canada⁷ studied nobiletin (NOB), a molecule found in tangerines and oranges. Their findings confirmed those from an earlier study which noted that “results suggest that NOB improves adiposity, dyslipidemia, hyperglycemia and insulin resistance.”⁸

The team found that feeding nobiletin to animals reduced the effects of a high-fat, high-cholesterol diet.⁹ Instead of growing heavier, the mice were leaner, had lower insulin resistance and had lower cholesterol when compared to a similar group fed just the high-fat, high-cholesterol diet.

This is the most recent published study from Murray Huff, Ph.D., who has been analyzing the effect of nobiletin on metabolism for more than 10 years. He commented on the results:¹⁰

“We went on to show that we can also intervene with nobiletin. We‘ve shown that in mice that already have all the negative symptoms of obesity, we can use nobiletin to reverse those symptoms, and even start to regress plaque build-up in the arteries, known as atherosclerosis.”

The researchers began with the hypothesis that nobiletin had an effect on AMPK, an enzyme that activates energy oxidation when levels of energy are low. Essentially, this would cause the body to burn stored energy.¹¹ However, they found that even for mice that were fed a high-fat diet:¹²

" … nobiletin robustly prevented obesity, hepatic steatosis, dyslipidemia, and insulin resistance, and it improved energy expenditure in Ampkβ1 -/-, AccDKI, and iβ1β2AKO mice to the same extent as in WT controls. Thus, the beneficial metabolic effects of nobiletin in vivo are conferred independently of hepatic or adipocyte AMPK activation."

The author did not pinpoint how the molecule works, but Huff is encouraged since he believes it does demonstrate the molecule will not interfere with medications designed to interact with the AMPK system, such as metformin for the treatment of diabetes. He believes the next step is to begin human studies.

Evidence Suggests Nobiletin Has More Benefits

Nobiletin can been extracted from the tangerine peel used in traditional Chinese medicine.¹³ In one study, the extract, in combination with other flavonoids from the peel, was found to positively impact antioxidative defense in young chicks. Results from other studies have demonstrated significant health effects, including:¹⁴

Introduces anticancer properties in the lab, especially against colon cancer cells15

Protects against cardiac hypertrophy by inhibiting NADPH oxidase,16 an enzyme producing reactive oxygen species17

Relieves age-related cognitive impairment, as shown in a study involving mice18

Lessens cardiovascular disease in diabetes, based on results from an animal study19

Reduces myocardial injury following ischemia and reperfusion, as shown in an animal study20

Reduces seizures, as reported by researchers who conducted an animal study21

Improves arthritis, as shown in the lab and in animal studies22

Strengthens physical activity, including promoting healthy aging, exercise endurance and cold tolerance, also as demonstrated in an animal study23

Enhances autophagy and mitochondrial biogenesis24

Lowers blood pressure, according to results from an animal study25

Improves memory deficits and reduces neuronal loss, as shown in an animal study26

Vitamin C Supports Your Immune Function

Colds, flu and COVID-19 are viral, which means antibiotics are completely useless in treating them. Antibiotics are helpful if you have a secondary bacterial infection, but overuse is leading to antibiotic-resistant disease.

Citrus fruits, high in vitamin C, are important to your immune system. Other vitamin C-rich foods include green peppers, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower and tomatoes.²⁷ Researchers have focused on identifying pathways vitamin C may use in protection against influenza;²⁸ it’s widely known to help children keep from getting upper respiratory tract infections.²⁹

Organic orange peels are another option for vitamin C. One tablespoon of orange peel has 8.2 mg of vitamin C³⁰ while 1 cup (16 tablespoons) of juice has 124 mg.³¹ When you multiply 8.2 mg by 16 tablespoons, the result is 131.2, just over the same amount in the juice. The peel has other health benefits you'll discover in "Eat Your Organic Orange Peels," but eating them comes with a caveat.

It is important to eat organic oranges, as much of the commercial crop from Florida has been liberally sprayed with antibiotics³² to help suppress greening disease. The disease is spread by the Asian citrus psyllid, which infects the trees with bacteria. Once infected, most trees will die within a few years. In the meantime they produce fruit that can't be sold.

As much as 90% of the citrus crops in Florida have been affected, which led the EPA to authorize the widespread use of antibiotics on the trees. Matt Wellington from US PIRG (Public Interest Research Groups) spoke to the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP), saying:³³

"The EPA is gambling with our life-saving antibiotics in its proposal to massively expand their use in citrus production. Spraying thousands of pounds of a medically important antibiotic on citrus trees violates the basic principle that these drugs should be used as little as possible, and only when necessary."

Following the first season of use, the University of Florida published a study demonstrating that using oxytetracycline for six months didn't have an effect on the viability of the trees. This also showed the initial data from the company providing the drugs that the EPA used for their decision, was flawed.³⁴

The researchers did find that injecting the trees could decrease bacterial growth.³⁵ However, it is expensive and not approved by the EPA. By choosing organic oranges you won't be exposed to the chance that an antibiotic has reached the fruit, or to what has remained on the peel. You also won’t be supporting a practice that will only increase the spread of antibiotic disease.

High Fructose Levels Lead to Insulin Resistance and Obesity

To achieve the results described in the Canadian study on nobiletin, researchers estimate you would have to drink 2.5 cups of orange juice a day.³⁶ Unsweetened orange juice from frozen concentrate has 2.43 gm of fructose in each 100 gm (3.5 ounces)³⁷ serving.³⁸ In other words, if you were to drink 2.5 cups of orange juice each day, you would be consuming 13.88 gm of fructose in one sitting.

What this means in plain language is that while drinking orange juice may confer the benefits of nobiletin, it comes with added sugar that has a significant influence on obesity and related diseases. Another challenge is that your scale doesn't tell you how the fat you do have is distributed throughout your body.

Your waist circumference offers some idea, but even this measurement isn't foolproof. Some people appear thin but have the same health problems as people struggling with obesity, including high blood pressure, diabetes and heart disease. The underlying problems are visceral fat, insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome.

For the most part fructose is consumed in liquid form, often as high fructose corn syrup. However, even when the fructose is from fruit, the number of grams you eat still counts. The burden of metabolism will fall to your liver³⁹ and excess fructose will promote the development of visceral fat collecting in your abdominal region. This raises your risk of heart disease and metabolic syndrome.

Although it's not inherently toxic, when you eat too much your liver can't handle the metabolism. As I've written before, I suggest keeping your total fructose below 25 gm per day, including whole fruit. The amount of fructose in 2.5 cups of orange juice is more than half this amount.

If you eat any other fruit, certain vegetables, processed foods or beverages,⁴⁰ you are likely to easily go well over the limit and increase your risk of metabolic syndrome, even if you maintain your weight.

Simple Strategies Help Weight Management and Support Health

The challenges of weight loss and maintenance are affected by many factors, including what type of food you eat, when you eat, movement, sleep and exercise. The first two factors are foundational to your health and weight maintenance since, no matter how hard you try, you can't out-exercise a poor diet.

Your body needs the right nutrients to feed your cells, neutralize toxins and balance your weight. A great way to accomplish this is to use the KetoFast protocol I developed following the release of my best-selling book “Fat for Fuel.” Using the KetoFast protocol your body regains metabolic flexibility and increases your ability to burn fat for fuel.

This helps support your mitochondria and brain cells while reducing your risk for many chronic diseases associated with metabolic syndrome and obesity. The combination of fasting and eating a ketogenic meal plan is done in phases, so you aren't overwhelmed by the changes to how you eat. You'll discover more about the process at "KetoFast Explained."

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In this interview, Dr. Thomas Levy, a cardiologist widely known for his work with vitamin C, discusses his most recent book, “Magnesium: Reversing Disease.” In light of the current COVID-19 pandemic, which was in full swing at the time of this interview, March 24, 2020, our discussion also includes some other strategies you can use to prevent and treat this and other respiratory illnesses.

Personally, I believe the fear of the pandemic and collapsed economy leading to depression and increased suicides will be more harmful than the disease itself, considering the mortality rate is now believed to be similar to the flu, which is around 0.1%.¹

That said, if this pandemic is teaching us anything, it’s that your immune system is your primary defense against infectious disease, so the best thing anyone can do is to educate themselves about how to do that. The same applies when facing acute illness, as there are many ways to boost your immune function even in the short term.

Vitamin C Is a Powerful Antiviral

As noted by Levy, vitamin C is one excellent option. “I personally believe, from the research and literature, vitamin C is the primary agent that stimulates and maximizes the potency of the immune system. So, I don't think it can be undersold,” he says. Levy recommends taking 2 to 3 grams, three or four times a day, for this purpose. 

I agree with this dosage for acute purposes, but not as a daily supplement. You simply do not need upward of 12 grams of vitamin C every single day. Many could definitely use some vitamin C every day, however. According to Levy:

“Epidemiologically there's no question — if the whole population just took 1 gram or 2 grams a day, I believe it would have enormous impact on the general public health and the incidents of infectious disease.”

As for my objection to such high daily doses, Levy replies:

“There's a difference between preventing disease and resolving disease. A larger amount of vitamin C in your bloodstream is going to give you a greater resistance against a given pathogen load than a lower amount, even if that lower amount is in the ‘normal’ range."

Vitamin C can also be administered intravenously. Levy, who has performed many intravenous vitamin C procedures, typically uses a pH-balanced solution of sodium ascorbate dissolved in water, buffered with sodium bicarbonate. In this manner, 12 grams of vitamin C can be pushed in as little as five minutes without irritating the lining of your blood vessels.

I personally prefer oral liposomal vitamin C, which can still allow you to reach the kind of blood levels you’d normally only get with an IV. Levy recounts a small trial he recently did at the Riordan Clinic, which measured intracellular levels of vitamin C. Here, oral liposomal vitamin C resulted in substantially higher intracellular vitamin C levels than is seen with oral, nonencapsulated vitamin C.

“In this particular study, we also looked at the effects of hydrocortisone, in particularly with liposomal vitamin C … The presence of hydrocortisone massively increased the amount of vitamin C that goes inside the cell. This is very interesting, because … hydrocortisone is considered your No. 1 anti-inflammatory agent. My opinion … [is] that [this] is because it exerts such a profound effect on putting vitamin C inside the cells.”

Contraindication to High-Dose Vitamin C Treatment

The only contraindication to high-dose vitamin C treatment is if you have glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) genetic disorder.² G6PD is required for your body to produce NADPH, which is necessary to transfer reductive potential to keep antioxidants, such as vitamin C.

Because your red blood cells do not contain any mitochondria, the only way it can provide reduced glutathione is through NADPH, and since G6PD disorder eliminates the major source of NADPH, it causes red blood cells to rupture due to inability to compensate for oxidative stress with glutathione.

Fortunately, G6PD deficiency is relatively uncommon, and can be tested for. People of Mediterranean and African descent are at greater risk of being G6PD deficient. Worldwide, G6PD deficiency is thought to affect 400 million individuals, and in the U.S., an estimated 1 in 10 African-American males has it.³

“If you do have someone that's positive, you need to remember that the reason the red blood cells are hemolyzing is because they have increased intracellular or intra red blood cell oxidative stress,” Levy says, “and this is due to decreased glutathione [and] vitamin C levels inside the cell, [and] increased calcium levels inside the cell.

So, you can bolster these people up by giving, usually, liposomal or intravenous forms of glutathione a day or two before, as well as intravenous magnesium. This builds up the resistance of the cell …

[We] counsel the patient … to drink a lot of water, stay well hydrated, and tell us if they notice any change at all in the color of their urine. And you'll find out early on, long before there's a massive hemolysis that's life threatening, whether something [is going wrong].

That is the overall approach, but I also have to follow up and say, especially, at the Riordan Clinic, where I'm a consultant, I don't think we've ever seen that, not even once.

Obviously, in certain populations — let's say if the Riordan Clinic was in Africa — then it might be a whole lot more concern, but there's a lot of people of color that come to the Riordan Clinic and it just has not turned out to be a problem. Although, with the reports and the literature as they are, you're probably not doing yourself any favors legally if you don't check the [G6PD] test.”

Other Important Immune Boosters

Levy adds:

“It's very important to take Vitamin D as well. Probably somewhere along the lines of 10,000 to 15,000 units a day, at least, during the time of the epidemic … A good preparation of zinc also helps arm the immune system. General supplementation should always include vitamin K as well, and magnesium, which we'll talk about.

I consider vitamin C, magnesium, vitamin D, and vitamin K2 to be the premier, top four supplements for promoting and maintaining good health, mainly because they're the primary antagonists to calcium accumulation, and excess calcium inside the cell … I consider to be the primary pathophysiology in all disease.”

Nebulized Hydrogen Peroxide Inactivates Viruses

Levy also discusses nebulization with hydrogen peroxide, which you can read more about in “Hydrogen Peroxide Protocol for Coronavirus” that was posted in my April 9 newsletter.

“Hydrogen peroxide absolutely destroys everything on an open wound. Well, guess what? When you put a fine mist of it inside your sinuses, nose, and throat, it nukes the virus there too … When you're systemically ill with influenza or coronavirus … the thing that's fueling it is an ongoing massive replication of the virus in the sinuses, nose and throat.

When you can effectively knock that down 99%, you ‘lop the head off the snake.’ And then the body is in great shape, especially with the support of things like vitamin C to mop everything up. Ozone is also fantastic, [but] ozone is not readily available for most people …

In the nebulization I'm talking about, [you use] over-the-counter, 80 cents a bottle at Walmart, 3% hydrogen peroxide. If you don't mind a little discomfort, you can do the full strength, but you can get a great effect with 50% or 25% of that concentration or less. The bottom line is, whatever aggravation it causes to nose and sinuses, those rapidly resolve once you stop the nebulization.

For long-term usage, it’s a good idea to use food grade hydrogen peroxide. But don’t hesitate to use the regular peroxide if you are actively dealing with a virus and don’t want to lose time trying to obtain the food grade form.”

Why Magnesium Helps Reverse Disease

As mentioned, Levy believes excess calcium inside your cells is a primary contributor to most disease, and magnesium is a natural calcium channel blocker. That makes it useful for a wide variety of scenarios involving oxidative stress.

This is also why I recommend magnesium as a countermeasure to electromagnetic field (EMF) exposure. To learn more about the adverse health effects of excessive calcium, listen to the interview in its entirety, as Levy delves into greater detail than summarized here:

“’Magnesium: Reversing Disease’ came as a natural sequel to my earlier book in 2013, ‘Death by Calcium.’ When I did the research for that book, I had no idea … how clear cut the data was. But the bottom line was — and this is why magnesium, vitamin C, vitamin D and vitamin K are so good — is they all are natural calcium antagonists.

They all help dissolve preexisting calcifications and they all help to normalize the calcium in the body. Each one, individually, decreases all-cause mortality — decreases your chance of death from anything — which means they favorably impact every cell in the body.

As I reviewed more and more studies, it became apparent to me (and I've not found an exception to this yet) that every cell that is ‘diseased’ has increased calcium levels inside the cell. And the higher they get, if you go without killing the cell, that's when you undergo malignant transformation. It's the highest levels of calcium that also result in cancer.

It was also very apparent, even before I began the magnesium book, that magnesium was the No. 1 calcium antagonist and general metabolic calcium function inhibitor. It mirrored everything. More calcium increased your chance of death by all causes, less decreased it. More magnesium decreased it, less magnesium increased it …

Magnesium is directly involved, one way or another, with 80% of all the chemical reactions in the body. So it’s a significant player everywhere. As you go down, disease by disease, No. 1, it becomes apparent that magnesium deficiency by itself causes many diseases, but perhaps even more importantly, magnesium deficiency, if it doesn't cause a disease, makes all the diseases worse.

Because, once again, the more calcium you get inside the cell, the more oxidative stress, the less enzymes and other biomolecules function normally, and the more you bring that micro environment inside the cell to a reduced level, things start functioning normally …”

Magnesium Is Antimicrobial Too

Levy also points out that some forms of magnesium are antimicrobial as well. In 1939, Dr. Frederick Klenner cured 60 out of 60 cases of polio in children and infants using oral and injectable vitamin C. According to Levy, a French investigator in the 1940s did the same thing but with oral magnesium chloride solution.

Both of these historical accounts are outlined in Levy’s book. According to Levy, while magnesium is not an antioxidant per se, it exerts through other mechanisms a profound antioxidant effect inside cell — largely by displacing calcium, allowing vitamin C to accumulate and optimizing glutathione synthesis. 

I review this very mechanism in my latest book, “EMF*D” as well. The intracellular concentration of calcium is about 50,000 times lower than the extracellular. But when you get an excess amount of calcium inside the cell, it causes nitric oxide and superoxide levels to increase.

Those two molecules, once they're formed, instantaneously go on to form a really pernicious molecule called peroxynitrite, a reactive nitrogen species (RNS), which stays around about 9 million times longer than hydroxyl free radicals.

This longevity allows it to travel throughout the cell, causing tremendous damage to stem cells, cell membranes, proteins, mitochondria and DNA. Essentially, EMF exposure triggers an increase in intracellular calcium levels, meaning it causes oxidative stress, and magnesium is an elegant solution to mitigate this damage. Most are also deficient in magnesium, so supplementing is a good idea for most people.

Magnesium chloride appears to have the most potent antimicrobial effects. Levy cites research showing the magnesium sulfate form and the magnesium chloride form have opposite effects on pathogens. In one in vitro study the sulfate form encouraged infection while the chloride form suppressed it.

“I think the chloride entity is extremely important for the anti-infectious property of magnesium,” Levy says. “So, if you're taking magnesium for the purposes of infection, take magnesium chloride.

If you're getting an IV, use magnesium sulfate. If you're taking it orally, just for the magnesium, then any of a number [will work, including] magnesium glycinate, magnesium threonate and magnesium gluconate — all of those are great.”

Another excellent source of magnesium is molecular hydrogen tablets. Each tablet provides 80 mg of elemental ionic magnesium. The tablets, which must be dissolved in water, provide you with highly absorbable pure ionic elemental magnesium, and have no laxative effect.

On Magnesium Testing

Levy does not think an RBC (red blood cell count) test is accurately reflective of your magnesium level. He explains:

“Red blood cells don't have cytoplasm and they're not really a good reflection … No. 1, if your blood level is low, you're low [on magnesium]. You don't need to go any further in testing. No. 2, if your blood level is ‘normal,’ then the next step is to go to … ExaTest.com.

They get sublingual swabs and measure intracellular levels of not only magnesium but calcium and a couple other electrolytes as well … It appears to be your best direct reflection that we have so far.

Maybe something better will come out down the road, but right now it looks like the best way for you to really know what your magnesium level is [and] get an idea of how well-suppressed your calcium levels are inside your cells …

It's not an outlandishly expensive test, but it's going to run about $250 or $300, so you don't want to just get it for no reason at all. But if you're dealing with problems that could be secondary to magnesium deficiency, it's good to rule that out as being a major contributor to whatever it is you might be treating.”

Side Effects of Excessive Magnesium

As for dosage, it’s virtually impossible to overdose on oral magnesium, as it has a built-in mechanism to prevent toxicity. Like vitamin C, excessive oral magnesium will simply come out the other end, as loose stools. That’s when you know you’ve exceeded your ideal dose.

One exception to the nontoxicity rule is in elderly individuals with constipation who are given large doses of magnesium citrate. If the magnesium preparation fails to work, it can sit in the gut, causing it to be overabsorbed. “That's about the only subset that I know of for oral magnesium,” Levy says, adding:

“Obviously, then, you can very easily harm yourself by taking too much magnesium too rapidly intravenously. But that's also it's therapeutic effect, and it's a known entity.

As a matter of fact, in dental surgery they have something called magnesium-induced controlled hypotension, because surgeries on the jawbone bleed so badly they want to use something to deliberately bring blood pressure down to controlled hypotensive levels until you get hemostasis, and then they back off on the magnesium and your blood pressure comes back up.

But the point I make about that is, if you give enough magnesium, you can take any blood pressure and bring it down it zero. Within those confines though, it's very, very safe … Ironically enough, our pseudo-enemy calcium is one of the ways you bring people out of that [hypotensive state].”

Magnesium for Migraine

The reason magnesium lowers your blood pressure is because it’s a vasodilator: It enlarges your blood vessels. And, if you inject it rapidly enough, you will get very warm, sometimes almost hot and sweaty. Importantly, for people with migraines, IV magnesium will typically resolve a migraine very rapidly.

“Upon my review on migraine, let me say, it's my humble opinion that migraine is completely and totally a magnesium deficiency disease,” Levy says. “That's how significant magnesium is in the physiology of that.

Interestingly enough, at about the same time I was writing on migraine in my book, a friend called me who was going through some horrible situations with a syndrome I had never heard before, called reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome, and even having a slight bit of a subarachnoid hemorrhage.

I read up on it and said, ‘This looks identical, basically, to migraine physiology. Start dosing your magnesium like there's no tomorrow.’ She did and she eventually came out of it. I guarantee you she hasn't gotten off magnesium since, and she's had no recurring episodes.”

The Toxic 3: Calcium, Iron and Copper

In his book, Levy reviews why you don’t want elevated levels of calcium, iron or copper. All three can be quite toxic and cause significant health problems.

“They're what I call the three toxic nutrients,” Levy says. “They're certainly, without any qualification, essential at lower doses for normal metabolism. Calcium plays a role in just about everything — the contraction of your heart. Iron is essential for blood production. Copper plays a similar but lesser role to iron in many of the things that it does.

But I've yet to see a person that I think is legitimately deficient in copper. But whether or not that person exists, the more important one is iron. Iron, in my opinion, you should never supplement if you do not have an iron deficiency anemia — hypochromic, microcytic anemia — because for all the things iron does, it's very tiny amounts of iron that are needed …

You need relatively massive amounts to make a normal blood count. So, if you're making enough blood, you have enough iron for everything else. Combined with that … you'll be absolutely appalled to see what's been put in our fortified enriched foods for the last 70 years. I've got news for you — I'm not nuts — they put in metallic iron filings.

Now how on Earth that's nutritious is beyond me, but even if they put in a legitimate supplemental form of iron, still, the more iron you accumulate, the greater your bodywide oxidative stress is. And excess oxidative stress is what we're trying to avoid.”

Be particularly careful if you have beta thalassemia, like I do, or sickle cell anemia. Taking iron when you have these conditions is the kiss of death, and I've seen that done to so many patients. To learn more about magnesium and its health benefits, be sure to pick up a copy of “Magnesium: Reversing Disease.”

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