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Dr Shade: Yeah, and you’re not fighting the infection, nose, in fact, where do they swab, tip of the nose, it’s just
you’re managing your body’s response to it. And I know loaded with viruses. So the nose and the mouth and throat
I’ve definitely taken CBD before when I’ve been in a are where this is all going on, and so I think that we should
heightened immune state, kind of fever-y feeling, and it be making more nasal rinses with antimicrobial
just softens that edge so nicely without suppressing your compounds. And in fact, I just did a little video for
immune response; and that’s what they need right now. practitioners saying, all right, you’ve got silver sprays, you
can use things like artemesinin emulsion and EDTA, some
IMCJ: And do you think that’s especially helpful for of the mixes like Biocidin. Get some of these things that
people like diabetics who shouldn’t take ibuprofen. are anti-microbial, add them into a saline spray and have
people washing their nose with these things; just like we
Dr Shade: And so, what they’re saying instead of ibuprofen take cleaning our hands all day, why aren’t we doing that
is to use Tylenol, but Tylenol suppresses your glutathione, with our nose and oral rinses with our mouth? And so we
it depletes your glutathione, and then there’s going to be have all the tools to do those kinds of things and that’s the
other problems. Now with the diabetics, CBD is really kind of hygiene we should promote more.
good for blood sugar. Whenever you get high resistance, Do you understand the concept I’m saying, we’re
whenever inflammation comes up, you start getting washing our hands all the time, but it all spreads by nose.
insulin resistance and your blood sugars come up. You What I’m saying is, the nose is disgusting and we got to go
know, I know this; I have a son who’s had type one diabetes clean the thing out, and the neti pot idea, there’s so many,
for six years now, and we’ve watched these cycles, and a lot of people have gone down that road, and they do that
whenever he starts having higher blood sugar levels we for fungus’s and MARCONS and stuff, and that I think is
give him CBD and it just brings and that brings everything what we need to highlight right now.
down. And so, CBD will have a lot of good effects for just
creating homeostasis. I was talking to Judy Mikovitz IMCJ: To kind of wrap up, where do you see this thing
recently, she’s a virologist who worked a lot in the early going? What do you see short term, and midterm solution
days with HIV and Epstein-barr, and she’s really, really big here?
advocate of cannabis for shifting your body’s immune
system over to be able to deal with viruses properly Dr Shade: Well, short term is to get everybody’s immune
without having all of this damaging inflammation. system in good shape, so just saying that they resist, it
means that, your immune system reads it, sees it and
IMCJ: Interesting, and so when you talk to practitioners, makes antibodies to it. So the more people that we have
what would you encourage them to do for patients who who contact it but don’t get sick, that’s the more herd
maybe didn’t test positive, but they’re around a lot of immunity that we generate in the population, and the less
people who are positive? people that become ill and become a drain on our
healthcare system.
Dr Shade: It would be the immune support, that would be Then the people that do get it, we have to make sure
the C, D, elderberry, A, K, E that I mentioned before, and they don’t get into the really negative ramifications of the
zinc and glutathione. Probably the older patients need it infection.
more than the younger patients, and that’s just to keep And then long-term we have to learn who did best on
those defenses up. And definitely if the people are bound which treatment, so second time around, we know how to
to stress, then give them CBD and help calm them down manage it that much better, until we’ve generated enough
because that’s a big destroyer of your immune system. And hard immunities that it never has a big outbreak again.
then when they get sick, then you’d have to shift over to
these more palliative things; the melatonin, the CBD,
glutathione and C, that’ll control the inflammatory
response to it.

IMCJ: Right now they say the elderly population is the
most impacted.
Dr Shade: Yeah, you know what, let me bring something
up, and this is for the people who are around a lot of other
people, and the elderly population, we’re all in... hygiene is
a huge thing right now, and what do we wash all the time?
Our hands.
But the virus is propagating in the upper respiratory
tract and it’s spreading itself through there, and so the

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