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Is Tea as good as Coffee for your Liver & general Health?by Harold Gunatillake Website:www.Doctorharold.com Recently, I viewed an interview given by Dr. Sanjiv Chopra MD Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School, regarding the health benefits of consuming coffee pertaining to your liver He gave some good reasons to drink coffee per day. He said multiple studies and meta-analysis have shown that people who drink two cups of regular have 40% reduction in primary liver cancer mortality. colon cancer, skin cancer including malignant melanoma, among others. I thought, I should discuss the comparison between the health benefits of tea drinking, goodness and general side effects, with drinking regular coffee. ...

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Let’s discuss the latest research on finding a vaccine to fight against the COVID-19 by Harold Gunatillake    Website:www.doctorharold.com/ Transcriptz; Under normal circumstances a vaccine program takes over 5 years to develop a vaccine. Due to the urgency to control the spread of the present virus being further attacking people, the researchers are attempting to produce one at high speed within one year. It is heartening to know that the Scientists at Oxford University have begun clinical trials of a coronavirus that has shown promise in rhesus monkeys and the first dose could be injected to humans within another few months. ...

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Our immune system and challenges to the COVID-19 – By Dr Harold Gunatillake   Website: www.Doctorharold.com Transcript: COVID-19 virus contains RNA (Ribonucleic Acid)-genetic material packed inside a protein shell. The only way to prevent people from catching COVID-19 is with a vaccine. It is a new virus, but the quest for a vaccine is not coming from a standing start When you are inflicted with an infection, your body develops antibodies and specialized immune cells that learn to fight that illness-causing pathogen. This virus was only identified a few months ago, and while researchers have been rapidly finding out about the virus and the disease it causes, there is still so much about it we do not understand. ...

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Eggs Boost your energy,and immune system to fight against viral infections by Harold Gunatillake Website: www.Doctorharold.com Transcript: Eat as many eggs at times like this To boost your immune system & bliss Spending so much time cooped up at home during curfew and lock down days, can lead to lethargy, depression, ill-nourishment due to lack of food, worsening your chronic diseases, like diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease and most of all weaken your immune system. On the other hand, lot of people feeling guilty about finding comfort in food and eating differently right now. Why? Because we’re during a crisis, a time when routines are suspended, and some health habits are bound to change. You may not have the energy to exercise. You may have trouble sleeping. And yes, you may be eating more than usual or enjoying richer foods. For your internal health sake, a reasonable way of ...

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To curtail spread of COVID-19-update By Dr Harold Gunatillake   Coronaviruses have been causing problems for humanity for a long time. Several versions are known to trigger common colds and more recently two types have set off outbreaks of deadly illnesses: severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (Mers). The present virus that kills people is a Sars-CoV-2 the virus that causes Covid-19 a deadly strain of a virus. But their impact has been mild compared with the global havoc unleashed by the coronavirus that is causing the Covid-19 pandemic. In only a few months it has triggered lockdowns in dozens of nations and claimed more than 100,000 lives. And the disease continues to spread. How does it spread? The present corona virus is a spiky ball of genetic material coated in fatty chemicals called lipids. ...

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Should you use Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine as palliation for the treatment of COVID19?-Dr. Harold Gunatillake Both chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine are drugs that doctors in Sri Lanka have been prescribing for malaria for over 70 years and was most efficacious and specific for killing malarial parasite. Doctors also prescribed the same drugs nonspecifically for traveler’s diarrhea, amoebiasis, and autoimmune conditions.   Malaria is caused by mosquito bites in countries like Sri Lanka where it was prevalent in the past. The malarial parasite carried by these mosquitoes, enter the body through punctures and lives in tissues such as red blood cells or the liver. This controversial anti-malarial drug is given to Australians, suffering from Covid-19 without carrying out any clinical trials. It is the opinion of most doctors due to serious threatening side effects of the drug, against using it for conditions for which it has not been tested. ...

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Azithromycin antibiotic as palliation for COVID19-byDr Harold Gunatillake Breaking News Test by French Medical Expert The news on the TV, President Trump speaking, that Trump also received tentative approval from FDA to partner Z-pak medication, azithromycin, with the hydroxychloroquine to treat the coronavirus. Z-pak has been used to treat bronchitis. Also, from internet, it is discovered: A test was run by a team led by Dr. Didier Raoult MD PhD, an infectious disease expert from l’Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire in Marseille, France. In that test, a total of 26 coronavirus patients were treated with hydroxychloroquine. Six (6) were also given an antibiotic, azithromycin. The patients who were treated with both the malaria drug and the antibiotic tested negative for COVID-19. Of those who were treated with just the hydroxychloroquine, 57.1% tested negative for the virus. Hydroxycloroquine is a milder version of chloroquine formerly used to treat malaria. And azithromycin has been formerly ...

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Corona Virus infection update in Sri Lanka-by Dr Harold Gunatillake     http://doctorharold.com/ Transcript Whilst the global statistics for morbidity and mortality for the corona virus is on the increase, it is heartening to observe a developing country like the island of Sri Lanka’s measures, to minimize the spread of the disease, has been a great success and a model The latest global statistics reveal that the number of countries and territories where coronavirus (Covid-19) infections have been reported has reached 115, with Panama and Mongolia reporting their first cases Tuesday. The number of overall corona cases globally has passed 116,000, and the number of global deaths has passed 4,000. However, not everything is bleak: for the first time since the outbreak started, the number of new daily cases in China fell below 50. Sri Lanka, that little island in the Indian Ocean, with a population of over 20 million ...

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