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NY Doctor Proved Everyone Wrong About Hydroxychloroquine
Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola October 17, 2021

• As early as March 2020, Dr. Vladimir Zelenko boasted a near-100% success rate treating COVID-19 patients with hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), azithromycin and zinc sulfate for five days
• Zelenko has now treated 3,000 patients with COVID-19 symptoms and only three high-risk patients have died
• Misinformation and outright lies were spun about HCQ, including fabricated research, in an apparent effort to suppress and prevent widespread use
• Early treatment is crucial. During the first five days of SARS-CoV-2 infection, the viral load remains fairly steady. Around Day 5, it exponentially increases, potentially overwhelming your immune system. To prevent complications, treatment needs to begin within the first five days of symptom onset
• Early treatment is also crucial to prevent “long-haul” symptoms after recovery. None of Zelenko’s patients who started their treatment within the first five days went on to develop long-haul symptoms

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Over-the-counter alternatives to HCQ include EGCG (green tea extract) and quercetin, both of which are zinc ionophores and therefore work much like HCQ does. Quercetin works best when taken in conjunction with vitamin C, however, as the vitamin C helps activate it. Zelenko recommends taking 1,000 milligrams of vitamin C with it.

Now, HCQ does have other mechanisms of action beside being a zinc ionophore, so it’s a better choice, but if you simply cannot get it, EGCG or quercetin are viable stand-ins. Additional benefits of HCQ include:

• Inhibiting viral entry into the cytoplasm, in part by changing the pH
• Inhibiting cytokine storms through anti-inflammatory properties
• Stabilizing red blood cells, which improves oxygenation

“Since it has four different mechanisms of action, it’s a very effective drug, and it has a half-life of 50 days in plasma,” Zelenko says. “But if you can’t get it, you can’t get it. So, I’ll take quercetin or EGCG.”

The caveat here is you must implement this treatment within the right timeframe. It can be helpful to recognize we are in essence dealing with two diseases, or stages of disease, here.

First, there’s the viral infection, and second, there’s the immune over-response that leads to the release of inflammatory cytokines and agents that can cause blood clots. The key is to prevent the progression from the first stage to the second.

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So if you can’t get the “gold standard” drugs (i.e., HCQ; ivermectin), then get quercetin.

It’s available from Puritan’s Pride https://www.puritan.com/quercetin-517/quercetin-plus-vitamin-c-250-mg-700-mg-008039.

Or your an get EGCG https://www.puritan.com/puritans-pride-brand-0102/super-strength-egcg-350-mg-018168?source=igodigital