Perspective on Quarantine and Covid 19 (Part I)
The definition of a medical quarantine applies to “those individuals who are sick or have been exposed to an infectious disease and are subsequently isolated from the healthy”. Quarantine usually does not include isolating those who are healthy. As Covid 19, a little virus we cannot see continues to reign over the world bringing fear…
Read MoreHydroxycholoroquine Risks and Effectiveness in Covid 19
Outside my practice I have been remotely following two young patients, both of whom have tested positive repeatedly for Covid-19 longer than 30 days. A 24 year old male initially symptomatic with loss of taste was treated with zinc, quercetin, vitamin D and vitamin C with resolution of symptoms within 2 weeks, and a 15…
Read MoreLow Testosterone as a Prognostic Factor of Severe Covid-19 Disease
Hormones Are Healing I will tell you this over and over again until it is engrained in your brain to the point you feel comfortable explaining it to others! In order for us to be at our optimal health, maintaining optimal hormone levels are key. Optimal hormones are just as important as maintaining optimal nutritional…
Read MoreWhat do Ketone Esters Have To Do With Covid?
Don’t Ever Let Anyone Tell You Diet Is Not Important! At the Peptide Mastermind Conference last weekend, my eyes were opened to using Ketone Esters for inflammation for such things as Covid and Asthma. Who would have thought!? Only the mastermind doctors, meeting to share their experiences using peptides, and in the below case, Ketone…
Read MoreGood News – Covid Treatments
Every time I write a blog about Covid, I think it is going to be the last ….and then it isn’t. As the weeks go by I get more and more calls about Covid and this week was no different. This week the calls, however, were about people having symptoms from Covid and wanting to…
Read MoreWhat Does Your Covid Test Result Mean?
This blog is written in loving memory of a very dear friend, who, as he often said of others, “graduated with the highest honors”, July 10, 2020, as I was reading an email from him dated July 8th! Many will miss his gentle soul who spent a life time supporting and bringing people together throughout…
Read MoreQuality of Life in the ‘Covid-Age’
As we walk through this “Covid-age”, I see people reflecting and ruminating on what is most important to them over and over again, until the answers come with more and more distinctions. One hormone helping us to see with clearer eyes and mind is Growth Hormone (GH). The Quality of Life Questionnaire, is a way…
Read MoreCovid Positive? What to Do!
Wednesday 7-1-2020 This week I received a plethora of phone calls concerning family members either being diagnosed as Covid positive or exposed to a Covid positive person, and the question, “What should I do?” If Covid Positive…First think, what would your family member had a very bad highly contagious flu? Understand 80% of Covid cases…
Read MoreQuarantine Brain – Growth Hormone Deficiency Syndrome?
Covid 19 seems to have made us all perceive the world in a different way. It feels as if some good things and/or some not so good things have crept into our lives when we weren’t looking. No doubt, Covid 19 and subsequent quarantine has had a profound effect on us. When asking my patients…
Read MoreVitamin C Benefits and COVID-19 (Coronavirus). Studies, Cases Reports
Let us never forget the benefits of Vitamin C!! Especially as we increase our exposure to Covid 19. Vitamin C IV for bacterial infections made its mark in medicine in the 1940’s and then was put on the back burner to vaccines when the polio vaccine was developed. Interestingly polio patients given IV Vitamin C…
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