Covid19
Perspective on Quarantine, Lockdown, and Covid 19 Part II
Last week’s text talked about the INCUBATION PERIOD of Covid 19 can be longer than the 14 day suggested quarantine period. Not mentioned was an interesting fact the incubation period in people > 65 yrs old and < 14 yrs old is longer than people 15 to 64 years old as shown in the graph…
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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 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 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…
Read MoreVitamin D Deficiency and Covid 19 (Coronavirus). Benefits of Vitamin D
As much as Dr Gordon loves his Zinc, I love my Vitamin D! Being introduced to high dose Vitamin D by one of my favorite doctors, Mayer Eisenstein, MD, JD, MP, was one of the biggest contributions to my practice. I loved talking to Mayer and would seek him out at every Anti-Aging meeting to…
Read MoreCovid-19 Editorial: Moving Out of Quarantine. Zinc Facts and Benefits.
As we move out of Covid 19 quarantine, many are left with just as many questions, or more, as when we began. One thing for certain is everyone is tired of being quarantined and would like to get on with their lives. One emerging problem is some are afraid to move on, some don’t want…
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