Dr. Peter McCullough

You know, so true.

Dr. Drew, thanks for having me on the program.

Happy New Year to you and Susan.

Happy New Year.

The randomized trials came in over the course of the pandemic, and I think the capstone was called the immune defense trial.

And it was a large 15,000 patient prospective double-blind randomized multi-arm trial published in Lancet, showing that even on-demand trials

use of nasal sprays and gargles could reduce the rates of getting you know common viral illnesses now we get to covid there are really high quality studies and we get into the you know certain solutions from hypertonic saline to dilute palvidon iodine to xylitol based products they all work

And when you do two to four squirts up the nose, sniff it back, spit it out, blow it out twice a day, and then do a throat spray or gargle twice a day, it prevents these infections.

That's an important point.

So we are breathing in viruses all the time.

And I guarantee when you go on a plane, you have actually brought a virus into your body, for sure.

It lands in the hair cells in the nose, actually the front part of the nose, and the virus needs a nice stable environment for replication.

And when it replicates for about seven days, you never feel it.

It's on the hair cells and the viruses are just building up in terms of their quantity and their colonization of the nose, getting ready to overwhelm the nose.

And then the lymphatic strain back to the throat.

And after about seven days, you start to get a sore throat.

But when you get a sore throat, you're seven days behind on what you could have done, which was to disrupt this population of virions from becoming so large that they physically cause a cold or influenza, RSV, or COVID.

So you're knocking it down a little or moderately so, so your body's own mucosal immune system can fight it off.

And it's a brilliant strategy.

Now that we've had this large UK trial, you know, proof of concept come in, it clearly works.