Got sick? Kick the bug!

Lately a lot of people I know are getting the seasonal bugs. Most do all the typical wrong things like drink orange juice & 7-Up. Their illnesses drag on and on sometimes for weeks. Conventional wisdom (and their Dr.) continue to tell them to dose Vitamin-C… and they continue to be sick! Many of these same folks go out and blow gobs of money on expensive products like Airborne, Emergen-C and other near worthless cold/flu remedies.

For a while now I’ve been recommending high doses of Vitamin-D for short periods to my friends and family. I’m not a “doctor” (and there is one in the family) so they usually just pretend to listen to me. In one ear and out the other. Most of them still feel my adivce is “internet” stuff, “pseudoscience” or I’m a weirdo because I eat “weird stuff” like whole foods and/or paleo.

But the main reason I’m writing this, is because don’t like prescribing treatments of clinical doses to people for obvious reasons. I just wanted a place to point them so they can read it themselves and keep the “well he told me to” out of it.

Believe it or not, it’s not that easy to Find Vitamin-D super-dosing online. You have to search terms like “Stoss protocol” or “influenza dose” to turn up anything. Since it took a while to dig it up, I decided to put up this page so my primal friends can have an quick resource to forward to their friends and family showing that Vitamin-D super-dosing is safe and credible.

The Dosing Protocol

Between 500-900IU per pound for 3 days.
Note: Make sure you take D with fat. Coconut oil, olive oil, butter, etc..

“Antibiotic dose (‘Stoss’ protocol): ~25,000 to 50,000 IU daily in the AM (or split) for 3 days (Precise dose: 1000-2000 IU per kg (or 500 IU per ~pound)

Side Effects:
Wake up without sniffles, scratchy throat, green phlegm, chest tightness or asthma”
~Source Article

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“Short term dosing of vitamin D at onset of respiratory infections can be very helpful. At first sign of exposure, take 2,000 IU’s of vitamin D per kg of body weight for 3 days. For a 70 kg or 150 pound person this is 140,000 IU’s of vitamin D for 3 days. For a 10 pound infant this dosage is 9,000 to 10,000 IU’s daily for 3 days.”
~Source Article

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“Although our paper discusses the possibility that physiological doses of vitamin D (5,000 units a day) may prevent colds and the flu, and that physicians might find pharmacological doses of vitamin D (2,000 units per kilogram of body weight per day for three days) useful in treating some of the one million people who die in the world every year from influenza, we remind readers that it is only a theory. Like all theories, our theory must withstand attempts to be disproved with dispassionately conducted and well-controlled scientific experiments.”
~Source Article 

 
With my recent cold I did 400IU per pound for three days. The morning after the first dose I was almost cured! I bought my D3 at the grocery store late at night while I was sick, so I paid through the nose for the bottle. Otherwise I would have dosed higher. The NOW brand (orange bottles) is cheap and what I have now (Amazon.com / Bodybuilding.com). In a pinch, you can probably get D3 or at least Cod Liver oil just about anywhere.

If you know anyone sick… do them a favor and forward them this page