How To Acquire The Immunity Children Have Against COVID-19

By Bill Sardi

One of the gross errors of modern medicine is to study
why people are diseased rather than why they are healthy
enough to escape the many maladies that plague mankind.

There are many perplexing questions that go unanswered since the COVID-19 pandemic was announced by the World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11, 2020.

One of them is why young children appear to be immune to COVID-19? And if so, pray tell, why are vaccine makers and public health authorities vaccinating the young? And, is there a safer non-experimental alternative to vaccination for children and adults since the new experimental RNA/DNA vaccines make guinea pigs out of our children?

Casting a Blind Eye to Immunonutrition

Is it possible that the increased use of natural remedies kept these children well?

Immunologists commonly say there is nothing that can be done to boost the immune system other than avoid poor nutrition. This is despite the fact that there are major nutrient deficiencies in Vitamin D, zinc, Vitamin C, magnesium, and Vitamin B1 even among the well-fed American population that modern medicine overlooks. Vaccines are posed as the only option against infectious disease.

This time, vaccine-happy pediatricians couldn’t say that vitamins and minerals are unproven when the vaccines themselves were experimental and as a class (reprogrammable RNA/DNA vaccines) have never been used in humans before.

But as much as I am an advocate of immune-boosting dietary supplements to prevent or treat infectious disease to induce natural immunity as an alternative to vaccination, it is not plausible that kids used vitamins so religiously as to extinguish this pandemic.

Kids DO Get COVID

Experts now say kids do get COVID-19, but experience very mild symptoms. Infection is desirable for natural immunity to occur.

An unexplained anomaly has been that the flu has vanished this season. A report published in the Journal of the American Medical Association says children didn’t get the flu this 2020-21 season because they wore face masks and practiced distancing. But that is preposterous. That would mean these practices implausibly prevent the flu but not Covid coronavirus infections. These are so-called experts saying this.

Children appear to be innately immune to severe infection. If face masks and distancing really do prevent infection, then they keep children from developing natural immunity and render them completely dependent upon immunization with an experimental RNA/DNA vaccine. Maybe that is the true objective.

Vitamins to the Rescue?

One explanation is that young children have active thymus glands that produce virus-killing T-cells up to around age 20. Then the thymus gland shrinks and T-cells decline drastically. By the way, the provision of supplemental zinc and even Vitamin D helps to prevent thymus gland atrophy.

For sure, public-health authorities have been remiss in not recommending nutrient fortification during this pandemic.

An Answer to the Question of Childhood Immunity

Investigators at the University of Louisville attempted to answer the question why children under age 18 do not contract COVID-19, and in answering that question, they also attempt to explain why the BCG (Bacillus Calmette–Guérin) tuberculosis (TB) vaccine appears to confer protection from COVID-19 whenever it is part of a country’s childhood vaccination schedule.

According to one online source, there are 16 countries that inoculate with BCG vaccine at birth. There are another 31 countries that immunize with BCG but do not administer BCG booster shots. Adults who were immunized with BCG at birth appear to be immune against TB and a variety of other infectious diseases.

One report indicates that for every 10% increase in BCG coverage there was a 10.4% reduction in COVID-19 mortality. There are also published reports that dispute any protection from COVID-19 infection with BCG vaccination. But COVID-19 is so fraught with inaccurate false-positive cases due to a flawed PCR (polymerase chain reaction) test, a test that is known to produce pseudo-epidemics, that the true test would be whether BCG-vaccinated populations develop immunity from other infectious diseases.

Trained Immunity in the 1930s

A phenomenon calledtrained immunity can be induced by exposure to certain vaccines, microbes, or metabolites.

Back in the 1930s, physicians observed that children who were vaccinated for any reason were less likely to die from other infectious diseases such as malaria, leprosy, and respiratory infections. The vaccine that accomplished this broad immunity was the BCG vaccine for tuberculosis. The BCG vaccine seems to prevent more diseases than it was actually designed to prevent.

Another example of entrainment of the immune system was when the smallpox vaccination was introduced about 200 years ago, and up to its discontinuation in 1980, physicians noticed that it afforded protection against the measles, scarlet fever, and whooping cough. This is now known as trained immunity – acquired via an agent that guides the innate immune cells to provide long-term immunity.

TRIM

In immunology lingo, trained immunity is called TRIM, short for Trained Immunity, which runs counter to the current dogma taught in medical schools.

Current Dogma

It is commonly taught that the human body first responds to infectious agents (pathogenic bacteria, viruses, and fungi) by activation of an army of white blood cells, namely neutrophils, monocytes, macrophages, and natural killer cells. This is called the Innate Immune response.

Innate immunity produces broad protection against any and all pathogens but does not produce long-term memory immunity. Or, at least that is what most medical textbooks teach today.

Seven or eight days after the onset of initial symptoms, the Adaptive Immune System kicks in and produces germ-killing B-cells (from bone marrow) and T-cells (from the thymus gland) to produce long-term antibodies and memory T-cells that then provide ongoing protection and prevention. That is why colds or the flu last a few days before symptoms dissipate as our adaptive immunity is activated.

Trained Immunity Operates Independently from Adaptive Immunity

The University of Louisville immunologists claim that Trained Immunity results in the production of white blood cells called macrophages and monocytes that have been entrained to exude long-term immune properties. Trained Immunity also “educates” the Adaptive Immune System to produce more potent T-cells.

The Current Problem

Cold and flu viruses mutate so rapidly that vaccines cannot possibly keep up. Conventional vaccines require a laborious process of being cultivated in chicken eggs. But now, the new RNA/DNA coronavirus vaccines are created in a day, making it possible to rapidly produce booster shots that address future viral variants.

Public health officials are coercing the entire World’s human population to be injected against each and every new COVID-19 variant. There are plans to produce endless booster shots for every infectious variant of this coronavirus. Just wait until the vaccine makers start producing RNA/DNA vaccines against other viruses.

But there is another major, though unexpected, development that needs to be revealed.

The New Discovery

There is a natural molecule that re-trains the immune system to produce long-term immunity with or without vaccination. Although fairly well known by immunologists, most of the public has not yet heard about a natural molecule that produces Trained Immunity.

The natural molecule that has remained in obscurity is derived from baker’s yeast cells. It is called beta-glucan. It is widely available as a dietary supplement and is easier to administer than shots with needles.

Beta glucan is a natural string of soluble, sugar-like molecules called polysaccharides that are found in the cell wall of bacteria and fungi; and it is often obtained from baker’s yeast cells (not to think it will give you a yeast infection). Mushrooms and seaweed (containing another complex polysaccharide, fucoidan) also induce immunity via their glucan polysaccharides.

Glucans Act As Training Agents to Amplify the Immune Response

Trained immunity happens independently of T cells and B cells. In other words, the first-responsive innate immune cells (mostly macrophages, monocytes) can acquire properties normally attributed to the secondary-responsive adaptive immune system that produces long-term memory immunity via T-cells and B-cells. This is ground-breaking news!

Researchers explain trained immunity as the “process by which innate immune cells undergo functional reprogramming after certain stimulations/infections [beta glucan], to mount a de facto immune memory that supports long-term altered immune responses.”

Great Importance

The old but recently re-recognized discovery that innate-immune cells (monocytes, macrophages) retain a memory from prior bacterial, viral, and fungal challenges is of great importance. “When these ‘trained’ [white blood] cells then come into contact with heterologous [different] secondary stimuli [beta-glucan] they are programmed to produce a more robust immune response.”

The first evidence of long-lasting innate immunity in humans emerged from observation of populations immunized with the BCG tuberculosis vaccine. Immunity was conferred from unrelated pathogens. Not only immunity from other non-TB respiratory infections and sepsis, but also from melanoma skin cancer.

The Science Behind Beta-Glucan

What does the science say about beta glucan?

One study showed that beta glucan reduces the duration of common cold symptoms by 37%.
A study of 97 healthy medical students for 90 days resulted in 43 fewer days of cold symptoms.
Beta-glucan has been shown to reduce the severity of a cold within the first week of infection. In a controlled study, beta-glucan consumed in a beverage reduced the maximum duration of upper respiratory infections from 49 to 27 days with fewer sore throats among healthy adults.
Only 10% of women taking beta-glucan experienced sore throat, stuffy, or runny nose or cough compared to 29% in the comparison group.
Beta-glucan-treated mice exhibited better survival after being exposed to lethal doses of Candida albicans, a yeast infection.

The protection from infectious disease afforded by oral beta glucan may not seem so stupendous, but that may be due to the variable quality of beta-glucan supplements (discussed below).

Societal Benefits

The University of Louisville-based researchers underscore the societal advantages of oral beta-glucan, namely, the avoidance of overwhelming the healthcare system in a pandemic, beta-glucan’s high safety profile compared to vaccines, and its known ability to mimic broad immunity produced by the BCG vaccine.

More Health Benefits

Beta-glucan has already been used as an adjuvant to vaccines. Furthermore, beta-glucan, almost amazingly, inhibits blood platelets from sticking, that is, forming blood clots. And even more striking is that beta-glucan reduces emotional stress and anxiety, something that accompanies every disease.

Beta-glucan dietary supplements are sold all over the World and a number of beta-glucan supplements have earned the right to make certain health claims.

Stand-Alone Beta-Glucan

The aforementioned report by University of Louisville researchers, as published in July of 2020 in the journal Frontiers in Immunology, says there is “strong evidence” in support of beta glucan as remedy for Covid-19 independent of its role as a vaccine adjuvant. In other words, it can stand alone and fight the virus. Beta glucan doesn’t just reduce the sniffles, it has been shown to reduce mortality rates from infectious disease (in an experimental animal influenza study).

Researchers in France echo the University of Louisville investigators and posit that beta-glucan can also work synergistically with Vitamin C and Vitamin D to promote human health.

Reverse Macrophage Laziness

Beta glucan also reverses something called macrophage tolerance (laziness).

After initial exposure of monocytes and macrophages to toxins or germs, a state of hypo-responsiveness is commonly observed, which is called tolerance. While tolerance protects tissues against damage caused by infectious inflammation itself, this diminished ability to respond to toxins underlies susceptibility to infection that commonly occurs in severe infections. Beta-glucan can reverse tolerance. This is accomplished by epigenetically reprogramming these white blood cells.

Already in Use among Animals

The rub is that beta-glucan, and accompanying trained immunity, is already being used in veterinary applications among herds of cattle, sheep, goats, poultry, and swine, especially among infant animals prone to infection because of their undeveloped immune systems. Beta-glucan has been used successfully with rabies shots for dogs and works via trained immunity.

Beta-glucan can possibly replace over-used antibiotics and help to quell the plague of antibiotic resistance.

Vaccine Adjuvant (Enhancer)

According to a report published in the journal Anticancer Research: “[T]he common dogma states that [glucans] act on cellular immunity only. … [G]lucans are now considered to have important potential as a part of vaccines. Our results further confirm that high quality glucans will stimulate antibody response.” It would seem that, in addition to being a vaccine enhancer, glucan supplementation reduces both the weight of tumors and the number of tumor colonies.

Will Any Beta-glucan Product Do?

Over 7,000 published reports describe the various biological effects of glucans. But, unfortunately, it is difficult to sort out which commercial products actually work. There are differences in molecular weight, solubility, and purity of glucans. Numerous studies have been done to help sort out the confusion.

An authoritative reports states:

“One of the problems is the fact that, despite the overwhelming number of scientific reports, far too many individual glucans have been used that differ widely in source, solubility, molecular weight, branching and other characteristics…. All this leads to confusion, with numerous manufacturers claiming that their glucan possesses the highest biological activities. The problem of diverse data can be solved only by comparative studies. However, scientific reports directly comparing individual glucans are limited.”

Comparisons of commercially available beta-glucan products explain all of the confusion in the marketplace over these otherwise promising products. One study revealed 50% of beta-glucan products had no biological activity even at the highest doses!

Underutilized Medical Technology

Beta-glucan is not even on a list of prescription drugs and natural remedies known to quell COVID-19 symptoms. The promise that beta-glucan offers is only dimmed by the variable quality of beta-glucan supplements available commercially. Study after study, after study, comparing its ability to activate antibodies, activate phagocytosis (ingestion of foreign particles and germs), produce a significant effect at the lowest dose, activate nitric oxide gas, and produce interferon, were all achieved with a unique branded glucan.

Given that current experimental RNA/DNA vaccines:

Do not limit the transmission and spread of the COVID-19 virus;
Nor do they prevent “breakthrough” re-infections;
Nor do they address the long-term symptoms of COVID-19;
Nor do they address the most current COVID-19 variants and therefore require endless booster shots; and instead
They incessantly produce spike protein, which opens the cellular doorway for even more viruses to enter,

it is clearly apparent that something else must be done. Beta-glucan therapy activates trained immunity and is safe even for the youngest infants and during pregnancy, and its activity has been proven over time.

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How To Acquire
The Immunity Children Have
Against COVID-19