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发帖数: 4796 | 1 The supplement Dr. Fauci takes to help keep his immune system healthy
According to Dr. Anthony Fauci, most "so-called immune boosting supplements"
actually do "nothing." However, there are two vitamins Fauci does recommend
to help keep your immune system healthy.
"If you are deficient in vitamin D, that does have an impact on your
susceptibility to infection. So I would not mind recommending, and I do it
myself taking vitamin D supplements," Fauci, 79, said during an Instagram
Live on Thursday, when Garner asked Fauci about immune-boosting supplements.
(In fact, researchers at the University of Chicago Medicine recently found a
link between vitamin D deficiency and the likelihood of being infected with
Covid-19— those with an untreated deficiency were more likely to test
positive. "Vitamin D is important to the function of the immune system and
vitamin D supplements have previously been shown to lower the risk of viral
respiratory tract infections," David Meltzer, chief of hospital medicine at
UChicago Medicine and lead author of the study said in a press release on
Sept. 8.)
In addition to vitamin D, Fauci said that vitamin C is "a good antioxidant."
"So if people want to take a gram or two at the most [of] vitamin C, that
would be fine," he said.
(Vitamin C "contributes to immune defense by supporting various cellular
functions" of the body's immune systems, according to 2017 study published
by The National Institutes of Health, and vitamin C also appears to prevent
and treat "respiratory and systemic infections." according to researchers.)
But "any of the other concoctions and herbs I would not do," Fauci said.
During another interview with actress Tiffany Haddish released on Sept 4.,
Fauci said in clinical studies most "so-called" immune-boosting supplements
didn't really help people unless they had some sort of a deficiency. If fact
, a lot of these herbs "either do nothing, or, if you take too much of them,
they harm you," Fauci told Haddish.
Overall, the best way to boost your immune system is to get good sleep and
exercise,Fauci said. "Those are the things that are so much better than
a bunch of herbs that really have never really been shown to do that," Fauci
told Haddish.
In March, Fauci, who has been a member of the White House Covid-19 task
force, said he often worked20 hoursadaydealing with the
pandemic. He credited his wife of 35 years,Christine Grady,a nurse
bioethicist, for reminding him to take care of himself. (Grady toldCNBC
Make Itin April that she tried to push to get him to get proper rest and
to drink water during his long days.)
And Fauci said in the July issue of InStyle Magazine that he also made time
to power walkatleast 3.5 miles a day to relief stress and maintain
good health during the pandemic. Fauci, who has been director of the
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984, used to
run up to seven miles a day at lunchtime, but switched to power walking
because it's gentler on his body.
On Thursday, Fauci warned Americans that they should be prepared to "hunker
down" until 2021 thanks to coronavirus, because the fall and winter are "not
going to be easy."
As of Monday morning,more than 6.5 million people have been inflected
with Covid-19 in the U.S. and at least 189,500 have died, according to
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发帖数: 285 | 2 Fauci本来就是一个政府的技术官僚。硬被吹成top expert。这就好象说FAA的官僚是航
空top expert一样。如果真是，也不会被波音给骗了。美国的top expert，学术的在大
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