Over the last few weeks, I’ve been following a blog by a family practice physician, Dr. David Brownstein, on his experiences treating individuals with Covid-19. I became especially intrigued by an April 12 posting: “My colleagues and I have treated almost 100 patients who were diagnosed with COVID or had COVID-like symptoms. At this time, our patients were doing well. No one has been hospitalized, no one has been diagnosed with pneumonia, and there have been no fatalities. We have spent the past 25 years preparing for this moment, and we were ready!”
What made the blog especially compelling were a number of videos of the patients who were recovering from Covid-19. I watched two, with women who appeared to be in their 60s or 70s—one had gone to the hospital with breathing problems, and consulted Dr. Brownstein as her condition worsened. Both women said they had pretty much recovered after using Dr. Brownstein’s vitamin and nebulizer regimens. Dr. Brownstein, a man who appears to be in his sixties, conducted the interviews gently, clearly not prodding the patients in a particular direction, several times cautioning that he wasn’t recommending a particular course of treatment for those watching the video. He never once alluded to the supplements sold on his site.
Here’s how Brownstein introduced another video on the blog (which I didn’t watch): “Check out my interview with COVID patient, Brandon, who is a paramedic. He experienced fatigue, body aches, high fever, followed by a shortness of breath. Hear Brandon’s testimonial on his progress after administering to himself a Super C IV, followed by supplementation.”
I write about these in the past tense because Dr. Brownstein was ordered by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) last week to remove the blog’s information, including the videos, from his website.
In a message on the site of his Center for Holistic Medicine in Michigan, he states that “we have been ordered by the FTC to stop making any statements about our treatment protocols of Vitamins A, C and D as well as nutritional IV’s, iodine, ozone and nebulization to support the immune system with respect to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19).”
To avoid possible legal action and penalties, Dr. Brownstein stated, “I will not be able to blog, post, tweet, email, etc. for a while. I want you to know that CHM is NOT closing.”
Dr. Brownstein seems to have been caught up in a bureaucratic dragnet by the FTC targeting dozens of health care providers, according to the National Law Review. “For example, in one warning letter, the FTC identified the following claim as an example of impermissible claims being made: ‘[A] lot of us are worried about getting the virus and since a vaccine has yet to be developed we’re going to have to rely on our good-old immune system to keep us healthy.’ The FTC warned that a company must possess ‘competent and reliable scientific evidence’ to advertise that a product can prevent, treat, or cure human disease. No study is currently known to exist supporting the treatment or prevention of COVID-19 for any of the products identified in these warning letters, so none of the claims are permissible, and the companies were ordered to immediately cease making the claims.”
I only have the blog posts I quoted from above, along with some additional ones, because I decided to save material from his blog, on the off chance he was forced to remove information. I really didn’t think that was likely because, as the National Law Review noted, it’s not as if there are all kinds of competing treatments for Covid-19– there is basically nothing, so what objection could they have to a holistic approach?
Plus, he has impressive professional credentials—he’s a board certified family practice physician. Yes, he’s gotten into skirmishes with other docs over his warnings against vaccination. One doc who went to Wayne State University Medical School, like Dr. Brownstein, raked him over the coals several years ago because of his holistic approach. But there was nothing on his Covid-19-related blog posts about vaccination.
A few of his blog statements were self promotional, like this one in April: “Hear our stories about the success we have had using natural supplements, IV therapies, and nebulization to treat our patients. If you are interested in scheduling a COVID Consult by phone please email us at: CHMCovidConsult@gmail.com“
Yet weeks before Dr. Brownstein was making that statement, the president of the United States was claiming that two commercial drugs long used to treat malaria “could be game changers” in treating Covid-19. Hospitals immediately began testing the drugs on patients. By mid-April, they were found to be ineffective in treating Covid-19.
Brownstein wasn’t even recommending drugs, but rather naturally occurring vitamins and over-the-counter combinations of nutrients. Moreover, there have been studies suggesting some of the nutrients, like vitamins C and D, could be helpful to Covid-19 patients.
Yet Brownstein was forced to scrub all his information. The president? His stuff stays online and recently he’s been pushing for rapid development of a vaccine against Covid-19, even if it might be unsafe.
What’s going on here? Why would the regulators come after an MD suggesting his patients use common vitamins, and broadcasting interviews with patients who have had favorable experiences recovering from Covid-19? I know there are those who will immediately take this as another sign of the vast conspiracy, “deep state,” and similar.
Surely the long-standing bias by both the medical establishment and government regulators against natural remedies of any kind is at work here. But beyond that, I see the campaign against Brownstein and others as yet another sign of the ever-more-toxic mix of science and politics that has accompanied the pandemic. For much of February and into mid-March, the president waved off the dangers of the pandemic, predicting “it’s going to disappear.” He has promoted an extremely aggressive campaign, “Operation Warp Speed,” to develop a vaccine against Covid-19, way faster than any previous vaccine. And apparently because of fears about “bad numbers,” the administration continues to hinder efforts to expand testing for the coronavirus; most recently, the FDA put the kibosh on a Seattle-area project funded in large measure by Microsoft founder Bill Gates to expand testing. Was that because many Trump supporters see him as part of a pro-vaccine conspiracy? Who knows. Members of the administration are said to own medical companies in line to benefit from federal spending on Covid-19 vaccines.
Here is how an analysis on Stat, a highly respected online science publication, put it today: “The Trump administration has systematically dismantled the executive branch’s science infrastructure and rejected the role of science to inform policy, essentially reversing both Republican and Democrat presidential administrations since World War II, when Vannevar Bush, an engineer, advised Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman.
“President Trump’s pursuit of anti-science policy has been so effective that as the first cases of Covid-19 were breaking out in Wuhan, China, no meaningful science policy infrastructure was in place to advise him. As a consequence, America is suffering from a pandemic without a plan. Our responses are ineffectual and inconsistent. We are increasingly divided by misinformation and invidious messaging. And it’s not even over.”
And among the “collateral damage” in this toxic mixture of science and politics will be ordinary people unable to access potentially useful information of the type offered by Dr. Brownstein.
David:
Thank you very much for covering this underdog’s work to empower the masses. Beyond helping his hundred odd patients with respiratory issues, Dr. Brownstein’s blog has freely assisted tens of thousands of people, without insurance, who can not afford hospitalization, and researchers like myself to develop low cost at home protocols. How low cost ? Megadosing with Vitamin C for 2 or 3 days can cost as little as $10 or less. Disclaimer: I have no business interest in promoting Vitamin C use in any form ! This is not a substitute for advice from a license physician or hospital .
I had been researching for 3 months the question as to why the “Asian Tiger” countries have such low case fatality rates from the outset i.e 0-1% , while the US is at 6%, Italy, France and the UK are at 15% , and other countries in between. The US corporate mass media has been shrewdly saying it was because of quarantine and lockdown, and invasive cellphone tracking and contract tracing by the Asians. I am sorry but tracking a cellphone does not cure a cold or flu ! There had to be more to the story. When I did a Google search using the terms ” Vitamin C and Korea” , Google kept directing me to articles on Vitamin D ? Go figure ? Google clearly has an algorithm blocking information on a national use strategy by Korea and others for megadosing Vitamin C. Instead i used the search engine Swisscows.com , I find some useful information :
https://militaryhealth.bmj.com/content/early/2020/03/05/bmjmilitary-2019-001384
This study was done in Korea in March 2018.
The point is that Korean government was massively promoting at home Vitamin C megadosing for its citizens in February 2020. If that did not work , patients were given profusions of 12g or 24 grams intravenously at hospitals. As the intravenous method allows higher dosing and without diarrhea .
b) https://medium.com/@MaraLeverkuhn/vitamin-c-dramatically-helps-against-coronavirus-infection-romanian-biophysicist-2341dc7e7a38
The above link also makes reference to the fact that China got massively into the Vitamin C megadosing game by March 1. 50 tons were shipped to Wuhan and it was distributed to all hospitals, patients and elderly citizens , vulnerable people and general populace. The effective death rate has dropped to ZERO since March 2020 in China and on some days the overall death rate is actually ZERO for so called CV cases.
My final point is Trump’s new ‘blame China” game. Well the Chinese generously published the results of their studies at Shanghai university and hospital for all the world to see on march 1, 2020. They stated very clearly that a zero per cent death rate was noted on patients given a 12 – 24gram profusion of IV Vitamin C . Please see http://www.doctoryourself.com (site managed by Dr. Andrew Saul of the orthomolecular network). Dr. Enqiang Mao of Ruijin Hospital , shanghai stated his group treated 50 moderate to severe cases, with Vitamin C megadosing, and that there was NO MORTALITY. Dr. Saul’s reference relies heavily on peer reviewed studies , I hope his site is not banned. I strongly advise you download any information on this site you deem useful.
The pandemic did not really take off in Italy or the US until March 22. What then could be the motive for the US ignoring such obvious and low cost research on Vitamin C ? The obvious one might be selling 350 million vaccines at taxpayer or other expense ($ 50 to $100 each). But Dr. Mercola in his interview (so far not banned) with Dr. Andrew Saul that a wholesale looting of the US treasury tends to occur during disaster and pandemics. The first thing Trump did was bailout Wall Street to the tune of $3 trillion ? You decide what is true or not ?
It seems the citizens , small businesses, are called upon to make enormous sacrifices while the pharmaceutical and hedge fund giants make none. Instead they use the corporate media and the likes of Youtube , google and facebook to more viciously enforce and expand their hegemony ? As David wisely pointed out while the federal government , FDA and NSAID and CDC have nothing more to offer than a ventilator and ‘don’t shake hands’ , staying at home , and social distancing ?
The misuse of the ventilators is another nightmare worthy of a separate article David ?
signing off,
Raoul
Raoul,
Thanks for the additional analysis and information. I do think it’s important not to get overly enthusiastic about the benefits of Vitamins C and D, before we have more conclusive data and studies–certainly not to the extent of disparaging the apparently significant efforts on testing and tracking that went on in Asia and New Zealand. It seems New Zealand has been able to get by with just 21 deaths….compared for 80K plus in the U.S.
“80,000 deaths …” ? Don’t be ridiculous. Even if accurate ???? such figure would be for all-cause mortality for all deaths in the US of A, back to September of 2019 … mis-represented as though ALL were from the Covid thing
the liars running this Scam-demic have taken figures from what would’ve been an average year for in-flu=enza, and attributed them – along with EVERY other death – to Covid. There’s a master’s thesis there, for someone who will demonstrate how this is a textbook example of how to lie with statistics. And depending how much courage one has to face reality >>> show how was planned well in advance to accomplish a malevolent end > distraction from the implosion of the US dollar
there ain’t gonna be no “new normal”… longtime hard money guys like Peter Schiff, Franklin Sanders, Robert Kiyosaki ; Ted Butler, David Morgan, Max Keiser et al. are vindicated. Former Chief of office of Budget David Stockton spells it out : the casino economy is all over >>>> now comes the crying.
good news for the Campaign for REAL MILK, is : the need for a personal line of supply for food, is now self-evident. Raw milk producers ought to prosper
You should change your name to Mr. Denial. Pretty much whatever the cataclysmic event, you are in denial. Actually, I was off about the 80,000 American deaths–it’s now just about 90,000, in the U.S. And 1.5 million cases. Indications are that these numbers are under counts. This data isn’t isolated, it’s part of a worldwide tabulation, 4.7 million cases worldwide, more than 300,000 deaths. It’s all here, at the Johns Hopkins site.
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html
you – of all people, Mr Gumpert ! – know very well that the health industry cannot be trusted
by not paying attention to the testimonies of experts of the highest calibre who are – hourly ! – posting interviews with hard evidence, contradicting the Central Party Line, The Complete Patient has inverted its original intent
a quick handy example of how the Scam is being perpetrated, is ; the statement by the San Diego County Supervisor, who revealed that of the 200 deaths there, attributed to Covid, only 6 really were genuinely responsible. Apply that proportion to the imaginary figure you use … so as to get back to what used to be called “reality”
https://www.theblaze.com/news/san-diego-official-reveals-only-six-of-countys-194-covid-deaths-are-pure-solely-coronavirus-deaths?utm_content=buffer26698&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=tw-theblaze
David, I really wish you had a “like” button,LOL!! The Blaze news source that Watson referred to was founded by Glenn Beck ( an ex-alcoholic and drug addict, by his own admission, and has obviously suffered brain damage from the abuse too!!), nothing more needs saying. My wife and I go to one of Dr. Brownstein’s partners and have helped us both considerably with some health issues we’ve had. Keep up the good work David!!
One other thing David, a county supervisor is NOT a reliable source for medical records, nor is he an epidemiologist!!
Yeah, good point, John.
here’s a checkable example of what I typed earlier today : the technique for how data re the Scam-demic is being twisted for an ulterior purpose
In a radio interview last week, Desmond said only six of the COVID-19 deaths in his county were “purely, solely” from coronavirus, the San Diego Tribune reported.
“We’ve unfortunately had six pure, solely coronavirus deaths — six out of 3.3 million people,” Desmond explained. “I mean, what number are we trying to get to with those odds? I mean, it’s incredible. We want to be safe, and we can do it, but unfortunately, it’s more about control than getting the economy going again and keeping people safe.”
Desmond was touching on a somewhat controversial, yet obvious fact: the vast majority of COVID-19 deaths are of people with preexisting, underlying health problems.
If the majority of deaths are of people with underlying health conditions, then strict lockdown orders should end, Desmond told the Tribune.
For every one of these, there are any number of experts who say the death count is very likely understated. This is a pretty good assessment of comments/speculation from both sides of the question. If you take the overstating that you suggest has gone on and the understating that is inevitable because of the large number of cases that couldn’t be actively tracked, you probably come out with something like the Johns Hopkins data. Anyway, it’s what we have.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/04/17/fact-check-covid-19-death-toll-likely-undercounted-not-overcounted/2973481001/
HCQ is nearly 100% effective in curing CV but that info is shuttered just like Brownstein has been. Dr. Berg on HCQ vs Remes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBma_0oAiMI
My company which offers clean, toxin-free health & beauty products was attacked by the FTC just like my essential oil company was a few years before. We were threatened with CLOSURE (this is a 40yo global company) if we made a single health claim. We’ve rewritten everything to be safe from the FTC.
If you didn’t despise the Pres so much you would see that he is towing the company line while slipping in comments like “not everyone will want the vax” and “we are working on therapies” and “pretty soon no one will need a vax or therapy”. He’s a smart guy, knows when to play ball and when to slip in his views.
The people pushing for the vax are Fauci (who the president does not like and has shown this via his comments) and Birx and Gates. I would write more but I have a deadline to meet.
Thanks, Sally. My approach with the prez (and any politician, for that matter) is to go by what he does rather than by what he says. If you’ll remember, Trump promised during the 2016 campaign to put limits on “the food police” and to assemble a commission on vaccine safety headed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The food police thing lasted a few days (as I’ve reported here a few times), then was pulled from his web site never to be heard from again. The vaccine safety commission never happened, was dropped like a hot potato once Trump was elected.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/feb/21/trump-vaccination-safety-commission-robert-kennedy-autism
I know he’s made asides that his new “warp speed” project for a Covid-19 vaccine won’t be mandatory, and that he supports “therapies.” Any promises about support of “therapies” have gone up in smoke with his FTC’s actions against Brownstein and others. And I predict the vaccine will in effect be mandatory–because you’ll need verification you have it in order to get on airplanes, get into entertainment events, go to college, etc., etc. It will be something like the new ID card that we’ll all need to have. (It was supposed to become mandatory this fall, but has been delayed now with the pandemic.) To get on a plane, you’ll need your passport or a specially approved driver’s license, which requires showing things like your birth certificate, W-2 forms, Social Security card, etc. I just got it earlier this year, and it was tough–lots of others at the motor vehicle office were there for the third and fourth time. So yes, there’s no official national ID, but there is.
Sally thank you for your insightful comments about our President. I totally agree with you .
The vitamin C approach: give it a chance to work. https://healthinsightuk.org/2020/05/05/big-vote-of-confidence-for-vitamin-c-as-viral-fighter-now-being-tested/
David – about HCQ – it has NOT been found ineffective, nor has it caused and heart related difficulties when used in conjunction with the “A & Z” in fact, many doctors are still on the web with near 100% success. Further, not all of them are in the US, I have Drs from here but also from France and Germany on my YT. Find the health playlist.
The amount of mis- and dis-information on and off the web is incredible. Please search farther.
And please continue to encourage people to keep learning and applying action on building health and immunity through their own best effort.
We are, indeed, all in this together!!!
PS: thanks for all the links – and for saving all you can!!! We all need to be doing that – even if site owners have back-up copies. Those willing – WITH AUTHOR PERMISSION – can continue to share.
THE WORLD NEEDS THE TRUTH!!!
Thank you –
Sue, your point on HCQ is well taken. The final verdict indeed is not in. A few initial studies haven’t shown significant improvement in outcomes, but there are other studies still ongoing. My point in referencing the drug was more to suggest the hypocrisy in the government’s action in shutting down Brownstein and others advocating vitamin and other naturally-based protocols for which there is growing research support of benefit, while the head of the government continues to advocate for an unproven drug protocol, without penalty.
Italian Parliament exposes Bill Gates, Vaccines, Mass Population Control.
What would the Democrats have done better than Trump ? What would Obama , Clinton or Biden have done better or different than the Trump administration ? What would the Democrats have done worse than the Trump administration ?
There still would have been a $3 or $6 or $10 trillion bailout of banks and the stock market. Obama bailed out all the banks , savings and loans institutions to the tune of trillions and there was not a single indictment for fraud except for Madoff’s blatant pyramid scheme .
There still would have been a FDA/CDC witchhunt against natural remedies and no possibility of discussing alternatives like IV per oxide, IV vitamin C , or Ozone injections or Nebulizing iodine or per oxide or successful use of hyper baric oxygen chambers. No that would have all been muzzled perhaps even worse. These things are decided by Fauci/fda/cdc and not the president. Youtube and Facebook and Google would still be censoring natural remedies and banning people and groups who speak out against vaccines, 5G or dispute the covid19 narrative and lockdown and loss of civil liberties.
At best Obama would have organized better testing and maybe contact tracing. Maybe he would have more rigidly enforced cellphone tracking ? But that would make a lot of people squawk about losing their civil liberties .
I am guessing Obama, Clinton or Biden would still push vaccinations as the only solution . The question is would the covid vaccine be forced on people ? That is a trend that is fairly constant of more and more forcing of vaccinations in schools and that seems to be decided by Fauci and the CDC and the FDA . so no change there.
Obamacare would have been more compassionate so in the early days of covid19 not so many people or travelers would have been dinged $3000 to $5000 to be tested for covid19 after returning from trips or whatever.
Would ventilators have been shoved down people’s throats so aggressively (pun intended) as they were in New York state ? It is said that 80% of people died who were placed on ventilators and they tended to be used as a first resort ? I tend to believe it was Fauci or Birx or their ilk who decided that procedure was to be the mainstay and along with the weird $39 000 funding formula for every hospital patient who was placed on a ventilator . One can only speculate but it was handled so clumsily that many nurses in New York state have complained of gross negligence and a few have even called it things worse than that. I don’t think Trump understood much about it ? Unless there was some larger plan to have abnormal numbers of people die ? We have no way of knowing with certainty .
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/05/06/adverse-effects-of-mechanical-ventilation.aspx?fbclid=IwAR0Jy8fDIh-4LIF9QwO8Z-aB4hbXDzC6FxdSUGt1PLfvrMGD_wZe_SM_GR8
But clearly we have seen a lot of extreme behaviours in the execution of this so-called pandemic. The lockdown has been an extreme, the negligence in old age homes, the lack of protective equipment in hospitals despite 3 months warning, the obsession and overuse and abuse of patients with ventilator which is the wrong remedy for this disease, the bungled testing which is still being bungled. The tests themselves have numerous false positives and negatives. The looting of the treasury for the benefit of wall street and the junk bond market. Imagine if instead of a $3 trillion bailout for Wall street banks and securities , that $10 000 was given to every man , woman or child in the US ? I think such a grant to the average citizen would have done a lot more good than a bailout of greedy traders and loan sharks.
What would Sanders have done better ? Now that is an interesting question. That is much less predictable. I think he would have had a more generous guaranteed monthly payment of $2000 per month right now for people out of work much like in Canada. Instead of piecemeal payments here and there from the Trump administration. It is possible that the democrats as a whole would have embraced this idea even without Sanders as president ? I don’t think Sanders would have bailed out Wall Street as much as Obama or Clinton or Biden. What he says and what he would actually do with the power of the presidency are not necessarily the same thing and I don’t think we will ever know in the case of Sanders unless there was some fluke and Biden had to drop out of his run for presidency due to illness, stroke or senility or some other reasons.
The important thing almost any other president, whether Democrat or Republican, would have done differently would have been to respond more quickly to the emerging pandemic via aggressive testing and tracking. The U.S. had the advantage of being last after Asia and Europe to be hit, so we had a huge advantage in being able to see what was happening in other countries, and how they were responding. I was following it, and it was pretty clear that some countries, like South Korea, Taiwan, New Zealand, Singapore, were reacting quickly and aggressively, and limiting outbreaks….while other countries like Italy and Spain were sluggish, and getting creamed with huge numbers of cases and overwhelm of hospital systems. We had the choice, and chose the sluggish response.
In fact, just yesterday, Columbia University came out with a study that showed the U.S. could have saved 36,000 lives by locking down just one week earlier. Many more by doing two weeks. Our prez was spending six weeks in Feb and March denying the whole thing, and refusing to take recommendations of his advisers that he act. It’s all documented.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/earlier-us-lockdown-could-have-saved-tens-thousands-lives/
His denial is difficult to explain, since the whole likely scenario was right in front of him, via news reports, not to mention his intelligence reports. Maybe he thought divine intervention would save the day. In any event, we have been playing catchup since in terms of testing, and still haven’t caught up. As a result, we have nearly one-third of the world’s 5 million cases, which is totally unacceptable.
As for the disbursement of aid, yes, that likely would have been skewed no matter who was in charge. Very difficult to allocate such large sums so quickly, and make the disbursements equal, and not subject to all kinds of lobbying. But going back to the early decision to delay responding, that affected the economic impact. You respond earlier and have fewer illnesses and deaths, you have a shorter lockdown period, and lower risk of a second wave. The initial denial and delay was extremely costly in both lives and economic impact.
“A Timeline—Pandemic and Erosion of Freedoms Have Been Decades in the Making”
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/news/a-timeline-pandemic-and-erosion-of-freedoms-have-been-decades-in-the-making/?utm_source=salsa&eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=26f3cdd8-cd63-412d-9d78-472a71731432
“Around the world, many people are understandably reeling in shock at the rapid economic, social and cultural changes that have followed in the wake of the phenomenon called “COVID-19.” Many of these changes involve ever-tighter restrictions on our rights and freedoms, accompanied by inexorable messaging—both public and subliminal—that a “vaccine for all” and 24/7 tracking and surveillance are the only way out. Increasingly, however, there are hopeful signs that more members of the public are recognizing the duplicity and self-interest of those offering false salvation. Each of us needs to do our part to expose these issues, standing up for individual sovereignty and working to halt the transition “to a totalitarian singularity more despotic than Orwell ever imagined.””
https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/warning-letters/covid-19-letter_to_dr._brownsteins_holistic_medicine.pdf
OFFICIAL WARNING LETTER FROM THE FTC TO DR. BROWNSTEIN’S OFFICE ON MAY 13, 2020
May 13, 2020
WARNING LETTER
VIA EMAIL TO info@drbrownstein.com
Dr. Brownstein’s Holistic Medicine
Center for Holistic Medicine
6089 West Maple Road Suite 200
West Bloomfield, Michigan 48322
Re: Unsubstantiated Claims for Coronavirus Prevention or Treatment
To Whom It May Concern,
This is to advise you that FTC staff has reviewed your website at
https://www.drbrownstein.com/ on May 8, 2020. We have determined that you are unlawfully
advertising that certain products or services that you sell online or in your clinic treat or prevent
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19).
Some examples of Coronavirus treatment or prevention claims on your website
include:
In marketing materials titled “Coronavirus: What to Do,” you claim that intravenous
therapies you provide can treat or cure COVID-19: “Conventional medicine has little to
offer to prevent or treat coronavirus infections… It is time for you to take the initiative
and learn what other therapies are out there . . . My last recommendation is to work with
a holistic doctor who can give you nutrient IVs when you become ill. Vitamin C,
hydrogen peroxide, and ozone IVs can help anyone suffering from an infection. At my
office, The Center for Holistic Medicine, we have seen the positive results a holistic
approach to combatting viruses can provide.”
In marketing materials titled “Coronavirus: What to Do,” you claim that iodine
supplementation “is essential to not only fighting off an infection it is necessary for
proper immune system functioning. There is no bacteria, virus, parasite or fungus
that is known to be resistant to iodine. . . . I suggest taking 25 mg/day as a daily dose
and more (sometimes 50-100 mg/day) at the first sign of an illness.”
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In marketing materials titled “Coronavirus: What to Do,” you claim, “First, it is
important to maintain optimal levels of nutrients, particularly vitamins A, C, and
D. Most people have suboptimal vitamin A and C levels. Both of these nutrients have
antiviral abilities and are able to support the immune system when it is under viral attack.
If you are not ill, I suggest taking 3-5,000 mg/day of vitamin C. At the first sign of an
illness, I would suggest taking 1,000 mg/hour until diarrhea develops, then back off for a
time period. For vitamin A, I suggest using 5,000 Units/day if you are not sick and
100,000 Units/day for four days at the first sign of an illness… Also, vitamin D is very
important for fighting infections. I suggest, at the onset of an illness, taking 50,000 IU of
vitamin D3/day for four days.”
In marketing materials titled “Coronavirus Part II,” you claim:
“At my office, we find great success with doing IV nutrient therapy when our patients are
ill with a viral or bacterial infection. I received a note from a physician colleague of mine
(a “Yooper”) who, at my request, gave himself a hydrogen peroxide IV and recovered
from the flu in a day. Intravenous vitamin C, glutathione and ozone are other therapies
that also help with viral infections.
Holistically, there are a lot of things to do for a viral infection like coronavirus.
Conventionally, there is little to offer. My best suggestion? Become a patient at
the Center for Holistic Medicine. We have many safe and effective therapies to treat
viral, bacterial, parasitic, and yeast infections.”
In marketing materials titled “85 COVID Patients at The Center for Holistic Medicine:
Zero Hospitalizations and No Deaths,” you claim that your “protocol of using vitamins
A, C, D, and iodine” and “intravenous nutrient therapy” should be “the first-line
treatment provided in any COVID patient.”
In marketing materials titled “85 COVID Patients at The Center for Holistic Medicine:
Zero Hospitalizations and No Deaths,” you claim that your vitamin-based protocol “was
sufficient for the majority of our COVID patients. I (and my partners) have no doubt that
the vast majority of COVID patients would avoid a deterioration of their symptoms if
they started this protocol at the outset of symptoms.”
In marketing materials titled “85 COVID Patients at The Center for Holistic Medicine:
Zero Hospitalizations and No Deaths,” you claim that, “At my office, the Center for
Holistic Medicine (CHM), we have had 85 COVID patients. At this time, no one has
been hospitalized, no one has been diagnosed with pneumonia, and there have been no
deaths…. I first reported to you about COVID on January 26, 2020. That was the first
time I presented our protocol of using vitamins A, C, D, and iodine not only to support
the immune system but also to treat viral infections…. [A]fter witnessing the results our
patients have experienced, I am more convinced than ever that a holistic approach like I
presented above should be the first-line treatment provided to any COVID patient.”
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In marketing materials titled “85 COVID Patients at The Center for Holistic Medicine:
Zero Hospitalizations and No Deaths” you claim that, “In my blogs, I encouraged people
to take high doses of vitamins A, C, D, and iodine at the first sign of an illness. In our
practice, this was sufficient for the majority of our COVID patients…. However, some
became more ill or did not start the oral supplements early enough into their illness.
Those patients needed additional holistic therapies. These included nebulizing hydrogen
peroxide and iodine along with intravenous nutrient therapies. To protect our staff and
healthy patients, we did not treat sick COVID patients inside my office. We were
gowning up and meeting our patients at their automobile at the back of our building and
administering IVs and ozone therapies. Some of these patients were very sick. So far,
they all recovered.”
In marketing materials titled “85 COVID Patients at The Center for Holistic Medicine:
Zero Hospitalizations and No Deaths,” you claim of people sick with COVID-19:
“Having them increase the frequency of nebulizing hydrogen peroxide and iodine helped
them all. Some of the sickest were advised to nebulize every hour or two for a short
period. IV therapies and ozone treatments have helped many.
This therapy has worked for helping COVID patients. It is sad that hospitalized COVID
patients are not given the proper nutritional support when they are admitted. In a perfect
world, I would immediately start an IV of vitamin C and begin nebulizing any
hospitalized COVID patient with hydrogen peroxide and iodine. I am sure that would
markedly lower the need for mechanical ventilation.”
In marketing materials titled “85 COVID Patients at The Center for Holistic Medicine:
Zero Hospitalizations and No Deaths,” you claim that “[l]ike most holistic therapies, the
earlier they are started in a disease process the better they perform. AT THE FIRST
SIGN OF A VIRAL ILLNESS I ENCOURAGE MY PATIENTS TO START MY
VIRAL PROTOCOL OF TAKING VITAMINS A, C, D AND IODINE. Due to the
severity of COVID, I now recommend starting to nebulize hydrogen peroxide and iodine
early into the illness as well.”
In marketing materials titled “There Is Still Hope Out There- Christopher: ‘Four Days
Ago I Felt Like I Was Staring At Inevitable Death,’” you present a video testimonial
from a man named Christopher, represented to have been a patient of Dr. Ng at the
Center for Holistic Medicine. You claim, “Dr Ng’s patient, Christopher, [] had tested
positive for COVID-19. This is one of the worst cases we have seen at CHM. Christopher
was sick for nearly 2 weeks, with a high fever, body aches, chills, nausea, and diarrhea….
Thankfully, Christopher is recovering after 4 days of a supplement protocol to
strengthened [sic] his immune system administered by Dr Ng. This pandemic is real, but
so are the results of natural therapies. Watch Christopher’s testimonial on how he
recovered from COVID-19.”
In marketing materials titled “There Is Still Hope Out There- Andre: ‘It was a remarkable
recovery,’’ you present a video testimonial from a man named Andre. You claim, “[M]y
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long term patient, Andre from Boston, [] I diagnosed as COVID positive. Andre had a
fever, severe diarrhea, and body aches that were painful to the touch. Watch Andre’s
emotional testimonial as he talks about his recovery by strengthening his immune system
with high doses of vitamins A, C, D & iodine, nebulization, as well as at-home ozone
therapy administered by his wife.”
In marketing materials titled “There Is Still Hope Out There-Miss Elizabeth: ‘Now that I
am nebulizing properly I feel 95% better!,’” you present a video testimonial from a
woman named Miss Elizabeth. You claim, “Meet my patient Miss Elizabeth. She & her
family had COVID-like symptoms to include severe headaches & extreme difficulty
breathing. Elizabeth talks about her recovery through proper nebulizing with H202
solution and Lugol’s 5% iodine. Watch her testimony to learn more.”
In marketing materials titled “There is Still Hope Out There- Brandon: ‘I Didn’t Really
Break My 102 Fever for 4 or 5 Days,’” you present a video testimonial from a man
named Brandon. You claim, “Check out my interview with COVID patient, Brandon,
who is a paramedic. He experienced fatigue, body aches, high fever, followed by a
shortness of breath. Watch Brandon’s testimonial on his progress after administering to
himself a Super C IV, followed by supplementation with high doses of vitamins A, C, D
& iodine.”
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Very truly yours,
This is from Lynne McTaggarts’ website :
https://lynnemctaggart.com/a-heros-unwelcome/
Dr Brownstein can’t publicize his protocol, but I can. See below.
At the first sign of COVID symptoms, take orally:
100,000 IUs of vitamin A
1 g of Vitamin C per hour until bowel tolerance was reached
50,000 IU of vitamin D per cent
25 mg/day of Lugol’s iodine (sometimes 50-100 mg/day)
Use as a nebulizer:
For each 259 cc bag of saline (salt water) inject:
3 cc of food grade hydrogen peroxide
1 cc of magnesium sulfate
Patient should then top up the mixture with a one drop of 5 percent Lugol’s iodine and to nebulize hourly until symptoms improve.
If oral and nebulizer aren’t resolving symptoms:
Practitioner should administer intravenous injections each of of:
Vitamin C 2.5 g of sodium ascorbate (5 cc of 500/mg/cc ascorbic acid solution) mixed with an equal amount of sterile water as intravenous push over 2-3 minutes
Hydrogen peroxide 30 cc of 0.03% solution of dilute H2O2 as intravenous push over 2-3 minutes
Plus: 20 cc of 18 mcg/cc ozone (as an oxygen/ozone gas mixture) given in each buttock as an intramuscular injection
After having his blog , lifework and research on the pandemic shutdown by the FTC in May 2020, Dr. Brownstein and a team of researcher pulled together his research and quietly published the following study and results in a scientific journal (Science,PublicHealthPolicy, andTheLaw Volume2:4-22 July,2020 Clinical and Translational Research – see bottom of page for link )
A Novel Approach to Treating COVID-19 Using Nutritional and Oxidative Therapies David Brownstein, M.D. ∗†, Richard Ng, M.D. †, Robert Rowen, M.D. ‡, Jennie-Dare Drummond , PA †, Taylor Eason, NP †, Hailey Brownstein, D.O. §, and Jessica Brownstein ¶
Abstract Objective: This report is a case series of consecutive patients diagnosed with COVID-19 treated with a nutritional and oxidative medical approach. We describe the treatment program and report the response of the 107 COVID-19 patients.
Study Design: Observational case series consecutive.
Setting: A family practice office in a suburb of Detroit, Michigan.
Patients: All patients seen in the office from February through May 2020 diagnosed with COVID-19 were included in the study. COVID-19 was either diagnosed via PCR or antibody testing as well as those not tested diagnosed via symptomology.
Interventions: OralVitaminsA,C,D,andiodineweregivento107subjects(99%). Intravenous solutions of hydrogen peroxide and Vitamin C were given to 32 (30%) and 37 (35%) subjects. Thirty-seven (35%) of the cohort was treated with intramuscular ozone. A dilute, nebulized hydrogen peroxide/saline mixture, with Lugol’s iodine, was used by 91 (85%).
Main Outcome Measures: History and physical exam were reviewed for COVID-19 symptoms including cough, fever, shortness of breath, and gastrointestinal complaints. Laboratory reports were examined for SARS-CoV-2 results. Symptomatic improvement after treatment was reported for each patient consisting of first improvement, mostly better, and completely better.
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Keywords SARS-CoV-2,COVID-19,ozonetherapy,hydrogenperoxidetherapy,VitaminA,iodine,Vitamin C, Vitamin D, immune system, antiviral.
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