#it does not reach its full potential AT ALL

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I am not a doctor but I am a cardiac geneticist with a background in farming and as a vet tech. The only points that are partially true are 3, 7, and 12.

Ivermectin is anti-inflammatory but you are much better off taking a drug designed to target inflammation for any kind of injury. It IS anti-parasitic! That, however, is pretty much all it does. It doesn’t do anything to cancer cells. A clinical study showed that a 5 day course of ivermectin reduced the longevity of Covid-19 (1) but not enough to be clinically relevant and no large scale study showed improvement in hospitalization or survival rates (2).

Ivermectin is an excellant, safe drug that effectively treats many different parasitic infections. It is life saving and improving, especially in parts of the world where parasitic infections are common. It has been used to nearly eliminate river blindness, a disease caused by parasites which had previously been endemic to several African countries (3).

Point 2- If taken in appropriate doses, ivermectin isn’t going to hurt you. It is widely used because the side effects are minimal. If you take a dose for a horse that weighs 7-10 times as much as you, it may make you sick. If you are putting 3 ml (a useless measurement without known the concentration) in orange juice, you are probably not getting it from a doctor who is giving you the correct dose. Most likely you have gone to the feed store where all doses are formulated for livestock and therefore are much too high.

For point 6- I am part of a building full of PhDs whose entire focus is the heart. Over half of them focus on some form of what this person is calling “cardiac overload”. Believe me, we want nothing more than a simple, cheap, and safe way to protect the heart from damage. I am currently researching a potential gene therapy to protect the heart in ischemia (like embolism). “Stimulating basic energy production” is not only not a thing but also doesn’t make sense for protecting from ischemia. Ischemic damage is caused by lack of blood flow and tissue necrosis. The only thing that limits ischemic damage is prompt restoration of blood flow or therapies that increase the regenerative abilities of the heart.

Points 5 and 9- It does seem to inhibit viral replication for SOME viruses IN VITRO (4). In vitro often does not translate to in vivo and there is no evidence that it does anything clinically relevant to ANY virus in a living organism. It doesn’t do anything for bacteria.

The only thing ivermectin kills is parasites. It does not kill viruses, bacteria, cancer, or vertebrates. It does not do anything to metabolism, glucose, or anything else in that vein. It doesn’t reach your CNS and you don’t want it to! It is generally a bad thing when things reach the nervous system. The CNS has impressive regenerative capabilities on its own and nerves can regenerate on their own, albeit slowly. It does nothing for autoimmune diseases- while autoimmune diseases are not always fully understood, they have been researched and if there was a readily available drug to treat them, we would know.

In short- ivermectin is an excellant anti-parasitic and a terrible everything-else. Scientists do not want to hide treatments from you. The vast majority of research is done in universities- there is no Big Pharma hiding a super drug. If “Big Pharma” did find one, the first thing they would do would be to jack the price up to 1000% of production cost and tell everyone.

Scientists love telling people about their work and we are definitely not in it for the money. In fact, telling people about our results is how we get more funding! We want to help people and broadly the government also wants to help people stay healthy, if only because keeping people from getting sick is much cheaper than treating them.

Sources:

1- https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7709596/

2- https://www.phc.ox.ac.uk/news/new-study-shows-ivermectin-lacks-meaningful-benefits-in-covid-19-treatment

3- https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3043740/

4- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166354220302011

I now know someone talking about the benefits of putting 3 milliliters of ivermectin in your orange juice. I... cant anymore...

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