April 13, 2020 Show with Bhanu Gadde, Pharm.D. on “A Pharmacist’s Counsel on the Coronavirus”

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I have a guest on today that I have known for quite a while, but I've never had him on the program before.

I'm so excited to have him on for the very first time.

His name is Banu Gadi.

He has a doctorate in pharmacy degree, and he owns

and operates Lee's Drugs of Floral Park, Long Beach Chemists and Prescription

Center of Long Island in Hempstead.

And he's also an elder at New Hyde Park Baptist Church on Long Island, a church that is a very

prominent place in my own life.

In fact, when I was a brand new Christian in the 1980s, I frequented a singles Bible

study that was hosted by New Hyde Park Baptist Church, and I've maintained friendships there

ever since.

Yes.

And today we are going to be addressing a pharmacist's counsel on the coronavirus.

And it's my honor and privilege to welcome you for the very first time ever to Iron Sharpens Iron Radio, Dr. Banu Gadi.

Thank you so much, Chris.

Glad to be on with you.

That is, that was, you're so generous in saying what you said about me.

Oh, my pleasure, brother.

And I'm still waiting to be invited over your home to have the best lamb vindaloo that has ever been

cooked on an Indian oven.

You got it.

You got it.

Anytime.

You pass by this way, you stop by.

You don't even need to knock on our door.

And you better have the samosa and the chicken pakora and the raita and the naan

and all.

Those other things.

Well, you know what?

Then if that is the case, you need to plan on spending one week here.

Yes, anybody who knows me knows I love my Indian food.

And before we go into your personal testimony of salvation, a brief summary of it,

because that is a tradition we have here on Iron Sharpens Iron Radio.

Whenever we have a Christian guest on the program, since this is a Christian program, I

like to have that first -time guest give a summary of their salvation story.

But why don't you just briefly give a plug to the three pharmacies that you own on Long

Island, New York?

Yeah.

Well, we are Long Beach Chemists, as you

said, and Lee's Drugs is in Floral Park.

And here, our passion is

people's health, not just giving them medication.

But there is a lot that goes on when you take the medication.

And there are a lot of aspects which control how that medication works.

So we are aware of the totality of

our work in

our specialty.

Great.

Well, if anybody wants more information about those pharmacies, you can go to Lee's

Drugs Rx .com.

Lee's L -E -E -S Drugs Rx .com.

And you could ask them for the other locations of pharmacies owned by Bhanu Gadi

when you contact them if that is not the one that is in your area.

Well, as I said before, I would love to hear your personal salvation testimony,

including what religion you were raised in and how our Sovereign Lord

providentially raised up circumstances in your life that drew you to Himself

and saved you.

Well, obviously, if my accent didn't...

I thought you were from Hoboken, New Jersey.

I'm sorry.

That could be true, too, nowadays, you see.

And my...our family's introduction to Christ, we are from a Hindu background.

And my maternal grandfather, he was suffering from an unknown illness.

And

he was...he received miraculous healing.

And that is how...and she became a believer.

Wow.

And when...

And when my...

And this is coming from an elder at a Calvinist Baptist church.

He's not charismatic nor Pentecostal.

Yes.

And also, one more thing is, when my parents got

married, my

dad

was still between a Hindu and

She did not complain to anyone other than just spend hours and hours and

what you have.

And that is how he got saved.

Praise God.

Yes.

Praise God indeed, brother.

And that is around

when I was...open -air

meetings

were conducted.

And I was so...and I...my need for a Savior.

And that night, I gave my...I just...I came

and saved my...

Wow.

So that was about three years ago?

Yes.

I'd like to think so, but...

And so, when did this interest in becoming

a pharmacist, in fact, even earning a doctorate in pharmacy,

come about in your life?

How did those...

Well...

How did that occur?

That is a long road.

I was in India

and I got

my...come

to the U .S. in 1991.

1991, August.

I stopped the Ph .D. program and I stepped foot on the U .S. in August...in August of

1991.

And then, I went to...

In 1992, we got married.

In 1994, there was a job opening.

End of 1994, there was...

I did not...

I took electrical

engineering

for several companies in the South.

One...one I took

for DSC Communications and Telecom.

So that is when there was a pharmacy that came up for sale in that.

And that is when...

Since then, I got the pharmacy.

Thinking about it, I know, why pharmacy school?

I've always

been...

We purchased in three.

Praise God.

And how did you discover and eventually join, and then even subsequent to that, become

an elder at New Hyde Park Baptist Church?

Well, coming from Texas, one of our major concerns was finding a good, well -balanced.

They lived in...

One Sunday, when...

Word of God and exposition... That is when we knew that

the God is leading us to...

Praise God.

And that was two pastors ago.

Yes.

In fact, the Lord had me and His Providence

spoke in the wheel of all of your pastors since Gary Scott coming to

be given the call to pastor there.

Gary Scott and Fred Zaspel, and now Doug McMasters, who is a dear friend of mine

and a mutual friend of Dr. James R. White of Alpha Omega Ministries.

And it's such a blessing to know him and my dear friend, Brian McLaughlin, who

I have known for quite a long time.

Since 1995, he began attending the debates that I began

orchestrating on Long Island in 1995 between Dr. James White and Roman

Catholic apologists.

And Brian, from what I remember, was...

He was already an evangelical and attending a Pentecostal church, but he was still

open to be convinced by Roman Catholics.

And he was, I think, on the edge.

And the debate that he had, that Dr. White had with Jerry Matitox, I think

really blew him way into the Protestant side of the

Tiber River.

That's wonderful, yeah.

And so if anybody, by the way, wants to learn more about New High Park Baptist Church, I'm always happy to plug a

fine congregation like that.

The website is nhpbc .com.

N -H -P, standing for New High Park, B -C for baptistchurch .com.

And hopefully I'll remember to repeat that information later on in the broadcast.

Well, this is a very bizarre day that we are living

in.

A very strange day, a very frightening day for some, some more so than others.

And even those that are still strong and healthy physically, many of them

either have already lost their livelihoods or at least they have been put on hold,

which has damaged their lives in many ways, especially financially.

And as I have even told you off the air, this radio program has been

negatively affected financially because two of our largest advertisers are on hiatus

because their businesses have been so negatively affected due to the coronavirus scare.

Tell me right off the bat, when you started hearing about the coronavirus, I'm

assuming on the news, unless it was through patients coming into the pharmacies,

but tell us what immediately began to turn as far as the

gears and wheels in your brain.

What were you thinking when you started hearing about these reports about this disease which

started in Wuhan, China?

Well,

I have a

Middle

Eastern

vitamin D.

By the fact that we are coming out of the winter months and the vitamin D

deficiency is a pandemic and it

went through my mind.

Did you say that the vitamin D deficiency is a pandemic throughout the world, is that what you said?

Absolutely.

Vitamin D deficiency is

almost insufficient in vitamin D.

Now, could you briefly explain why that is?

Yes.

The vitamin D is our

exposure to sunlight.

And in the U .S. latitude, more vitamin D until...

So it's kind of like a gamble, do I get skin cancer or do I get vitamin D deficiency, right?

Well, there is a lot of debate there

and I don't want to go into that aspect now, but vitamin D deficiency, it is

this.

In January itself, I started telling all my employees to get on the high

doses of vitamin D.

I'm taking vitamin D supplements.

All my family, we take first

and farthest

data that is available.

People who have a vitamin D level with

200 nanograms per ml did not get affected.

It's an educated guess that vitamin D levels being high would provide...

I cannot tell you.

I started

digging into mechanics of...

Now, how about if you already have it?

Does a vitamin D therapy, if you will, does that

help cure or hasten the virus from

completing its illness within the one who already has it?

See, I think we need to look at how...

But

virus cannot...

A virus is not a living thing.

No, it is not.

I didn't know that until just this second.

Yes.

What it is, is virus has to...

It has to get into the cell.

It has to gain entry into the cell.

And then, the

cellular

transcript that

we need, our body needs, what it does is it

injects its RNA, that's the imprint into the nucleus.

And once all these viral...

The process starts...

See, even though Mers and SARS were...

The previous

was not

as virulent in the...

Even though they did not have the active disease or active

viral counts were almost four

orders of magnitude higher.

Speaking to somebody who can be communicated.

And that is

the way it

could

happen in the U .S.

And since then, we all see how...

I'm going to give our listeners our email address if you have questions of your own that you'd like to ask

Bhanu Gadi.

Our email address is

Please, as always, at least give us your first name, your city and state, and your country of residence if you live

outside the USA and only remain anonymous if it is a personal and private matter over which

you are asking.

I completely understand if anybody listening has the coronavirus or has

a loved one with the coronavirus that you may not want to identify yourself.

Things like that, I can understand you wanting to remain anonymous.

But if it's just a general question, please at least give us your first name, city and state, and country

of residence.

We have already a listener in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania,

Susan Margaret.

And Susan Margaret asks,.

I have been listening to hours and hours and hours and hours of television

broadcasts explaining in full detail what the coronavirus is,

how it spreads, and of course, very often, the information that you hear

the very next day is outdated and sometimes contradicted 180 degrees.

But one thing that I cannot remember anyone ever mentioning is the positive results

in preventing this virus through vitamin D.

Am I missing something?

And why would they omit this in these televised broadcasts, especially when they have scientists

and doctors being interviewed?

The problem is, I think this is a thunder belly.

And I do not know, perhaps we are used to that

the solution could not

vitamin D in high doses and they have completely recovered from this.

Yes. Yeah.

So it does have positive results on occasion with

people who already have it?

Oh yeah,.

Not on occasion.

We have primary care

physicians around this area who are using this and

they are seeing.

And the other day.

One doctor called

with

a high that is breaking

these compounds into the bloodstream

more and more.

This is a mystery illness something called

hemoglobin which carries oxygen to the cells

and to

various

systems.

This is what is happening is

cannot carry oxygen.

Mostly initially we thought it was

and you know just like ventilators to

and that is what is showing up in the D -dimer test.

And this one patient whose D -dimer level and

hemodynamic parameters

he is completely.

Praise God.

Praise God indeed brother.

Have you heard about.

Or experienced.

Or witnessed anybody who had no positive results from a good

vitamin D protocol?

Everybody.

Who is on this.

Have improved.

Wow. Everyone.

And also let me tell you okay we have this.

Pharmacy.

Everybody comes into the pharmacy and all my employees have been on

and everybody is working.

Well we have to go to our first break and we ask of those of you who are waiting to have

your questions asked and answered to be patient but if you would like to get in line to ask your own question

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This is Chris Arnzen.

If you just tuned us in our guest today for the full two hours with a little less than 90 minutes to go is

a doctor Banu Gadi.

He is a New York pharmacist who has earned a Farm D which is a doctorate in

pharmacy and he owns and operates Lee's Drugs of Floral Park Long Beach

Chemists.

And.

Prescription Center of Long Island in Hempstead.

He's also an elder at New Hyde Park Baptist Church Long Island New York.

And today we are addressing the theme a pharmacist's counsel on the coronavirus.

And as we've discovered Dr. Gadi has a lot to say about his enthusiasm and

excitement over the wonderful results he is witnessing firsthand

when people have been using vitamin D as a preventative

and even as something to get through the virus if they already have it more

quickly.

Our email address is chrisarnson at gmail .com.

Chrisarnson at gmail .com.

And.

Dr. Gadi before I go to listener questions were you finished saying what you were saying before the

break or do you want to conclude in any way?

No, I said.

Exactly what I was.

Saying.

I'm muted so.

Go ahead.

Got to.

Turn down the volume a little bit here because you were over modulating a.

Little.

That's our fault on our end here.

Okay, we have Tom in West Islet, Long Island, New York.

He has actually three questions so I usually don't take

that many questions from one listener but since it's about something as serious as this and also because

they're good questions I'll ask all of them.

First, Tom wants to know about the effectiveness of the

hydroxychloroquine HCQ plus Z -Pak drug combo against the

virus.

Yes,.

There was a

product

that.

Z -Pak

has to be.

Administered

and they.

Have been last two days.

Now, is there.

Any.

Danger of using your.

Protocol.

With the.

Vitamin D in addition to using.

The.

Hydroxychloroquine?

No, not.

At all.

This is the thing.

I have.

Some of.

The.

Emergency

serum, the

vitamin D

levels of

people.

Wow.

So, it's an

epidemic

and which is progressing at such a rapid rate

and killing people.

And you know, and also, we

have the.

Second question from Tom in West Islip, New York.

Effectiveness of drinking tonic water has quinine, he has

in parentheses, in combination with taking a high -potency multivitamin, high in A, C,

D3, with zinc, the poor man's HCQ.

Plus Z -Pak combo.

You know, absolutely,

definitely.

Tom's definitely done his.

Homework here.

The third question is the effect of drinking lots of water and gargling with salt water to

halt the virus spread into your lungs.

You know,.

That is a

salt

water

gargle.

Not

only

in this,

in any

vital

illness.

And

Tom.

Reveals something very interesting here.

He says, I have since recovered from having the virus.

I take a high -potency multivitamin with zinc every day

and during the sickness, drank a large amount of water and gargled with salt water.

My case would likely have been considered mild, given extreme symptoms only lasted.

Two days.

I'd like to know what extreme symptoms are.

Is it shortness of breath?

And, you know, those things.

Well, Tom, if you're listening still, I hope you are, and I'm sure, I'm very sure that you probably are.

Why don't you just answer Bhanu's question with another email, and he wants to know what the

severe symptoms were.

We have a mutual friend of both of ours, Dr. Bhanu.

We have Pastor Mac Tomlinson of Providence Chapel in Denton, Texas.

Warm greetings to Chris and Dr. Ghadi.

My question is, what is the single most important way to pray for New York City.

In the days ahead?

Oh, that's a different kind of question.

Absolutely.

Pastor Mac, you know, this is not realized.

High spirit everywhere.

Thank you,

Pastor

Mac

Tomlinson.

And by the way, I always love to take advantage of.

The opportunity to promote an excellent church when a pastor

emails a question.

So if anybody lives in Denton, Texas, or nearby Denton,

Texas, the Providence Chapel in Denton, Texas, can

be found at their website, ProvidenceDenton .org.

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And I'd like to ask my audience to continue to pray that my oldest brother, John, who

is in his mid -70s, when he is able to, after

the hysteria over the coronavirus scare dies down somewhat, that

my brother agrees to meeting again with Pastor Mac.

Pastor Mac visited him in the hospital when he had to be rushed to the

hospital not long ago.

It had nothing to do with the coronavirus, but he has an aortic aneurysm, and Pastor

Mac visited him unannounced, which was the only way he probably would have been able to, because my brother's been

very apprehensive to meet with Mac, because my brother is not a Bible -believing

evangelical Christian.

But he was very, very accepting of this visit, and gave me

a very good report, my brother, that is.

So hopefully he will be up for more visits.

I would appreciate you all praying to that end, and especially that he gets

saved by the grace and mercy of Christ.

He has critical stage emphysema on top of everything I mentioned.

Thank you, Pastor Tomlinson, and I look forward to the next time I get a chance to interview you on

Iron Sheriff and Zion Radio.

I have another question that I will ask you, and then you could answer it when

we return from the break.

The question is from CJ in Lindenhurst, Long Island, New York, and

CJ wants to know, do you think the reason we hardly ever hear anything about

vitamin D in the media, when nearly 24 hours a day on some

stations, we are hearing nothing but discussions on the coronavirus,

is that doctors, by and large, are not trained in health, nutrition, and the use of

vitamins.

It seems that they are typically only regurgitating the line, have

a balanced diet, which, what on earth does that mean?

And they prescribe drugs and other things, but they very rarely get into the

benefits of vitamins and other matters when it comes to health and nutrition.

Okay, so you could answer that when we come back.

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Before we return to our interview with Dr. Banu Gadi, who

is a New York pharmacist owning three drugstores in

the Long Island, New York area, and also an elder at New High Park Baptist Church on Long

Island, before we return to our discussion on A Pharmacist's Counsel on the Coronavirus, I

just have some important announcements to make.

First of all, if you have not yet registered for the free spring Iron

Trap and Zion Radio Pastors Luncheon, which we still intend to conduct,

barring any unforeseen continuing of the ban on

public gatherings, the event is being held, God willing, on Friday, May 29th,

11 a .m. to 2 p .m. at the Bongiorno Conference Center in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

That's the first time we've ever had it there, and I'm looking forward to that very much, and I'm

also looking forward to having as our guest speaker for the very first time, God willing, Dr.

Conrad Mbewe, who I believe is the most powerful preacher alive on the planet Earth, and I do not exaggerate in the

slightest when I say that.

Dr. Mbewe is the pastor of Kobwata Baptist Church in Lusaka, Zambia, Africa.

He's also the former vice chancellor, or actually the former chancellor, of African

Christian University, where he is currently lecturing, and he is a highly sought -after

conference speaker, just absolutely mind -blowing how this man is gifted to proclaim and

declare the gospel with such power, and without playing

any games and candy -coating or deluding the pure

truth of the Holy Scriptures.

If you want to join us, if we are still permitted to have this event,

send me an email to chrisarnson at gmail .com, chrisarnson at gmail .com, and put luncheon, or pastor's

luncheon, in the subject line.

I will register you immediately, absolutely free of charge.

Not only are you going to be able to hear Dr. Mbewe speak for free, and not only will you be fed a

sumptuous meal by the Bon Giorno Conference Center for free, but you'll also be receiving

a ton of free books, a heavy sack of free books, brand new books that I have selected personally

that have been donated from major Christian publishers all over the United States and the United Kingdom, all for free.

As I've mentioned before, this event was the brainchild of my precious late wife Julie,

who came up with this idea to treat my pastor friends to a Christmas lunch every year,

and we began doing that, and she went home to be with her Lord God Savior and King Christ Jesus

for eternity, and after she passed, after

several years of a hiatus, I relaunched the luncheons after relocating to Pennsylvania.

I relaunched these luncheons in her tribute and honor and memory, and I hope that you can

attend by sending me a free registration at chrisarnson at gmail

.com, and that's Friday, May 29th, 11 a .m. to 2 p .m.

Even if you're very pessimistic that we will be able to have this gathering as early as May

29th, well, send me the email anyway, because this way, if we have to change the date, you'll be

already on our list, and we will contact you with any new date should we need to

arrange a new date.

It's chrisarnson at gmail .com, and put Pastor's Luncheon in the subject line, Friday, May

29th, 11 a .m. to 2 p .m. at the Bongiorno Conference Center, Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

Also, folks, this is very important, and I hate asking this of you every day

during the show, but it's something that needs to be done for this program's survival.

Please, if you love this show, you don't want it to disappear from the airwaves.

You love the fact that I interview guests and cover topics that very often

are not heard anywhere else.

You love sharing the free downloadable mp3s with family, friends, and loved ones.

You love winning free books by submitting questions when I'm interviewing authors.

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During this coronavirus scare, we are more in more need of your

financial assistance than ever before because our two major, our two largest advertisers had to

postpone further financial support of the program because their businesses have been so

negatively impacted by the coronavirus scare.

So please help us make up for that loss of income.

Please help us to remain on the air if indeed you love the show.

Go to ironsharpensironradio .com, click support, then click click to donate now.

You can also advertise with us as long as whatever it is you're promoting is compatible with what we believe.

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Send me an email to chrisarnson at gmail .com.

Chrisarnson at gmail .com and put advertising in the subject line.

I surely could use the advertising dollars to help us remain on the air.

Also folks, if you are not a member of a local Bible -believing church, and you're not

prayerfully even seeking for one, you're living in rebellion against God, and so

you have to rectify that situation.

There's no such thing as a lone wolf maverick Christian in the New Testament who is not

under the headship of local elders in a biblically faithful church.

There's no such thing as a Christian in good standing with God who is just bouncing around from church

to church to church and never joining any of them, or never going to any church.

So please, if you need help finding a biblically faithful church in your area anywhere in the world, I have lists of biblically

faithful churches all over the planet earth.

So I may be able to help you find one right near where you live.

I've already helped many people find churches near where they live all over the planet.

So send me an email to chrisarnson at gmail .com.

Chrisarnson at gmail .com and put I need a church in the subject line.

One thing that I forgot to mention, folks, when it comes to donating to Iron Trip and Zion Radio, I know

that churches all over the world are hurting financially due to the coronavirus

scare, not only because the folks are unable

to show up physically for worship services due to the bans on

public gatherings, but also because members of churches have lost their jobs

or at least been laid off temporarily and they can't afford to even give to their local churches.

So I'm asking you, when you donate to Iron Trip and Zion Radio, please don't siphon money

away from your regular giving to your local church in order to give to this program and never put your

family in financial jeopardy by giving to this program.

Those are two commands of God in the Scriptures to provide for your church and your family.

Providing for this radio show is obviously not a command of God, but if you are financially blessed above and

beyond your ability to obey those two commands, you have a lot of extra money perhaps because you're not

going out to eat in fancy restaurants anymore, you're not going to the movies, you're not going

to theatrical performances and plays and concerts, you're not going to sporting events,

you're not doing many things that you used to do because you are isolated in your home most of the time,

well please use some of that money, any percentage of that money that you want to, even all of

it, to give to Iron Trip and Zion Radio if indeed, as I said, you love the show and you don't want it to go away.

So go to irontripandzionradio .com, click support, then click to donate now if you are

donating.

And if you have a question for our guest, Banu Gadi, a New York pharmacist who owns and operates

three drug stores in the Long Island, New York area, and an elder at

New Hyde Park Baptist Church on Long Island, if you want to join us with a question on a pharmacist's

counsel on the coronavirus, our email address is chrisarnson at gmail .com, chrisarnson

at gmail .com.

And Dr. Gadi, before the break, I got

a reply from Tom in West Islip.

You had asked him what the severe symptoms were?

Yeah.

And I don't think I read his answer before the break.

My memory, my memory is going pretty badly.

But Tom in West Islip, New York, I'm looking for his reply.

Oh, he said the the severe symptoms were severe headache, fatigue, and fever.

And he also wants to know if you have any recommendations for Indian restaurants on Long

Island.

You can come to my house.

Well, you better have me there first, or at least with him.

No problem.

I've been waiting for years to come over there.

Thank you very much, Tom.

And we also have now Michael in Princeton, New Jersey.

Please present these three questions to Dr. Gadi.

What have you read or heard about taking large doses, about two grams a day, of

ascorbic acid, vitamin C, as a part of a regimen to minimize the impact

of infection with COVID -19?

And I'll read the other two questions after you answer.

That.

Also, before we went to break, why

doctors do not recommend...

Oh yeah, that's right.

I.

Believe that was CJ in Lindenhurst.

Yes. I think.

I wanted to know why the... and he was surmising that doctors know little

about health and nutrition and vitamins because even though they may go for many years to medical school, that's not a

part of their training, typically.

At least that's a common understanding.

I.

Don't know if that's still a truth today in this day and age, but...

Well, let's address that.

And as a society and as people, we have become busy, and

we do not have any time

to

sit

and

look at

where

most

of

the

doctors...

Vitamin

D

mechanism.

It

does

not occupy that, and that may be available for

us to use that mechanism.

The

second way, we're standing

up our

way.

One is to

regulate their

treatment.

They

produce more

only

in

the presence of...

We have

not

experienced

this

before.

With

the status quo, I think now this pathogen is making us rethink

again.

Yeah, but this.

Has been going on for months, and as our listeners said before, and I

agree, you could listen to Fox News or any other network

on television for hours, maybe even 24 hours, and never hear vitamin D

mentioned at all.

It's just amazing to me.

It is amazing, and also that is the reason why I decided to write these posts on the Facebook, starting March 23rd,

and I tried to explain the detailed mechanism, how the vitamin D is important, and also there are other

natural compounds that can aid in this.

Yes, let me read the question again.

What have you read or heard about taking large doses, about two grams a day, of ascorbic acid, vitamin C,

as a part of a regimen to minimize the impact of COVID -19?

Yes,

that is a

benefit.

These

are

iron

-ion

setting,

maybe,

you

know, it does

not

definitely does not hurt,

definitely helps, maybe even higher.

Okay, the second.

Question from Michael in Princeton, New Jersey.

Do you have any opinion on the relationship between viral load on initial

exposure to COVID -19 and severity of symptoms?

I believe it may explain, in particular, why medical workers may be at greater risk than the general

population.

You know, as we talked.

About it already, the viral load in this is tremendous,

is of magnitude higher

walking around.

Yeah, I

could never figure out why initially many of these so -called.

Health experts and physicians were on Fox News and other places

telling people, don't wear the face mask, it's not going to help you at all, blah blah blah.

Now they're saying, oh, please, we urge you, wear the face mask, and it was really

strange because if everybody for years has been saying,

if you have to cough when you're in, or sneeze when you're in the presence of someone else, do it

in the sleeve of your elbow, where your elbow is.

Now, if that is supposed to be a help to people, why wouldn't they

wear a face mask?

By the way, our friend, Pastor Mack Tomlinson of Providence Chapel in Denton, Texas, wanted you

to clarify something.

He said, is it vitamin D3 that you were mentioning?

Yes, absolutely, that.

Was the differentiation I was going to make a little later.

Vitamin D2,

inverted in the body, vitamin

D2 by many, many doctors, and whenever

they talk about vitamin D

toxicity, and

vitamin D.

Well, that's

a very vital distinction.

Then, because you're saying it's impossible to overdose on D3, but not on.

Vitamin D2.

Yeah, high doses of vitamin D3

over a long time.

Okay, we have Arnie in.

Perry County, Pennsylvania, and in fact, I'm going to ask his question, and then we're going to go to our final break, which is a

much quicker break, much shorter break.

We will have you answer it when we return.

The question is, from Arnie in Perry County, Pennsylvania, do you suggest any

kind of specific diet that would help us to have the proper levels of

vitamin D in our system, in a virus such as the

coronavirus in the future?

A very good question, and we'll have you answer it when we return, and if anybody else has a

question, we do have a couple of people waiting, but if anybody else has a question, and you want to get in line, do it quickly, because we're

rapidly running out of time.

Chris Arnzen at gmail .com.

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I want to tell you about a man I have personally known for many years.

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we are addressing a pharmacist's counsel on the coronavirus.

Our email address is chrisarnson at gmail .com, chrisarnson at gmail .com.

And there is no question here from Barbara Ann in Hendersonville, Tennessee.

She just wants to thank you for giving such great advice.

And going back to the questioner before the last break, do you have any

advice or recommended diet that is high in vitamin D?

Absolutely.

How much time do I have?

Right now, you have about 14 minutes.

No, no, that's okay.

No,

absolutely.

There is a

diet,

I see that

vitamin D is

made, and

vitamin D, like magnesium.

Magnesium helps in the vitamin D conversion.

Magnesium is

something that maybe we can take.

Doesn't, or

should

I say, don't

carrots have a

lot of vitamin D?

No, carrots have

vitamin A.

How about

milk?

Milk is...

Oh, so that's not.

The greatest vitamin.

No.

Does lamb vindaloo have a lot of vitamin D?

Well, it can.

Because I'll never get coronavirus ever, if that's the

case.

We have, let's see here, Ronald in Eastern Suffolk County, Long Island, New York, who

asks, are there any brands of the.

Vitamin D3 that are far superior to others?

Vitamin

D3 and K2?

Let's see.

We have a

similar.

Question.

Somebody was asking about brands.

We have, let's see here, I just was looking at it, and it disappeared.

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B .B. in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania says, how do we know, or how can we check to make

sure that we are not being ripped off by some fly -by -night company manufacturing

something that they label as vitamin D3, but is really an inferior or perhaps even phony

product?

You know what,.

There is, yeah,

there is

that concern out there.

So, in other words, you wouldn't advise.

Somebody just ordering something off the internet that they saw advertised?

You know what, see,.

The thing is, this is where I land on

that one.

But you will not get the same advice.

Well, I want to make sure, before we go to any more listener questions, that you have about five

minutes to really provide the information that you most want etched in the hearts and

minds of our listeners today on this subject before we go off the air.

The benefits

are

very

benign.

For

Facebooker, you can contact me on my,

and also, if anybody is

having any serious symptoms at all, and had to be taken to

the hospital,

they have to

be on board.

If you have vitamin D on board for this fight, they will, more than likely, they will.

Okay, well, let's see here.

We have John in Bangor, Maine, who wants to know, are any

hospitals that you are aware of adopting the vitamin D regimen?

No, I do not know of any hospitals that...

Wow, that's crazy.

Yeah, I spoke to several doctors, and some doctors, they said they would try to

use it.

Vitamin D,

they cannot give more than 50 ,000 units

every

therapy,

and I don't think...

Wow, your answer really surprised me.

It's mind -boggling.

It's really mind -boggling.

Let's see here.

We have Harrison in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, who says, has

it proven to be false, the commonly repeated phrase, that young people

are far less susceptible to the coronavirus?

No, that is, you see here, most,

in these hospitals, most

young as 18

years

old,

that is a myth.

Wow.

Now, do you know if, statistically, these younger people have a pre

-existing condition, which, initially, for weeks, they were saying that everybody

who has severe effects, negative effects from the coronavirus,

has a pre -existing condition like diabetes or something, but that seems to

have vanished as a fact, and, but is it true with the younger people that they

almost all, or a high percentage, have a pre -existing condition?

You know, in the two young cases that I have seen and I have known...

Wow.

Let's see here.

We have Bobby in Hartsdale, New York, who says,

it's amazing that I keep hearing in the media that we should not go to the hospital

or a doctor if we fear we have contracted the coronavirus, and yet it

seems to be resulting, on occasion, in death.

What is your advice?

My advice?

See, the problem

is that

advice that

doctors

are saying, that giving them any

vitamin D

is available,

and

you,

you

know...

So, you agree with that advice?

Yes, I do, you know, as long as...

RJ in White Plains, New York, says, I just recently watched a documentary that has been circulating on

Facebook and the Internet very widely, that gives the idea that the coronavirus

actually began purposely as a tool

of war in China, in a laboratory, and although the root

is bats, it is not a mistake that occurred in the wet market.

Do you have any of your own theories on this?

No, I do not, but the thing is that this present, the urgent and current question is, I

think there are ways to...

Well, Banu, it was fascinating having you on today, and I, without a doubt, want you

to return to Iron Sharpens Iron Radio, especially when there are developments,

new developments, that we hear about in the media and so on, and if

you could, well, first of all, let me give the website for one of your

drugstores,

LeesDrugsRx .com, that's L -E -E -S Drugs

R -X dot com, and you can find out the information on the other locations on Long Island, New York,

where Banu Gadi has a pharmacy that he owns and operates,

but do you have any other contact information you care to share?

Yeah, I,

my email address is B -G -A -D -D

-E -B -H, B -H -A -N, I tried to capture...

Can you repeat your email address again?

It is B. Gadi, B -G -A -D -D -E, at N -Y

-R -P -H...

Well, thank you so much, Dr. Gadi, and I look forward to having you back, as I already stated,

and I look forward to accepting that invitation to have an Indian meal at your home.

Yes, thank you, Chris, thank you so much.

I want to thank everybody who listened today.

Oh, let me, one more time also, plug New Hyde Park Baptist Church, where Dr. Gadi is an

elder.

The website there is N -H -P -B -C dot com, that's N -H -P for New Hyde Park,

B -C for Baptist Church dot com.

I want to thank everybody who listened, especially those who took the time to write, and I want you all to always remember for

the rest of your lives that Jesus Christ is a far greater Savior than you are a sinner.

Amen.