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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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