How You Can Successfully Treat TB Without Drugs

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How You Can Successfully Treat TB Without Drugs

 

Two new studies have linked vitamin D to the successful prevention and

treatment of tuberculosis (TB).

 

The first study determined that vitamin D is key to the molecular

mechanism that the body employs to fight tuberculosis. White blood

cells convert vitamin D into an active form that helps make a protein

that kills tuberculosis bacteria.

 

In the second study, Indonesian scientists compared the effect of

vitamin D versus a placebo on almost 70 tuberculosis patients for some

nine months. Treating tuberculosis patients with 10,000 units of

vitamin D daily versus the much smaller amount (400 units) usually

advocated by conventional medicine led to a 100 percent cure rate.

These findings could lead to the use of the vitamin as a means to

prevent and cure the disease.

 

Science February 23, 2006

 

Acta Med Indones January-March 2006; 38(1): 3-5

 

Forbes.com February 23, 2006

 

Dr. Mercola's Comment:

 

The amazing health benefits of vitamin D continue to regularly

accumulate. I believe that this is one of its most amazing benefits.

 

That 100 percent cure rate at high dose levels is a remarkable

testimony to the benefit of natural therapies. It really is sad that

conventional medicine has long abandoned this important treatment

option and now relies on triple drug regimens to treat TB.

 

Of course I don't recommend or advise using high-dose vitamin D

supplementation without regularly checking your blood levels as it is

potentially dangerous to do otherwise. However, that is only if you

use vitamin D as an oral supplement.

 

Vitamin D has been nicknamed the " sunshine vitamin " because your

exposed skin produces it when it is exposed to a sufficient quantity

of ultraviolet light. If you receive your vitamin D this way you will

achieve virtually ideal levels of the vitamin without any danger of

overdose and eliminate the need for testing.

 

This is one of the reasons why I live part time in Maui in the winter

months; so I can obtain regular doses of sunshine. Far better option

than remaining in cold and dark Chicago. It just amazes me how it is

very rare to find anyone with a cold or flu here in Maui.

 

So be sure to get outside regularly and receive regular exposure to

sunshine. Take some time for yourself and work up to the point where

you get one hour of sun on your skin every day it is possible.

 

For those of us who live in the Northern Hemisphere, the colder,

shorter days of winter make it darn impossible for our bodies to get

enough sunshine, thus generate healthy amounts of vitamin D. Until

spring has sprung, you'll want to take a high-quality cod liver oil,

which contains high amounts of the vitamin, and then switch back to

fish oil as the opportunity for sun exposure increases.

 

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