Podbit · The Tucker Carlson Show
Lithium is one of the first three elements created after the Big Bang, which is why it exists in every rock, every body of water, and every food — just usually in too-small amounts for optimal health. Its name comes from the Greek word for stone.
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Nehls introduces lithium's most immediately explosive application: case reports published in August 2020 and a subsequent RCT demonstrated that lithium (given at 2×40 mg/day alongside standard care) shut down the COVID cytokine storm. Patients in the treatment arm left hospital in half the time, no one went to intensive care, and no one died. The control group fared far worse. Similarly, a September 2020 study from Cordoba showed that giving hospitalized COVID patients the vitamin D prohormone (25-hydroxy vitamin D) reduced ICU admission risk by 25-fold. Both findings were available before the mRNA rollout. Nehls's conclusion is unambiguous: if lithium had been deployed, the entire justification for mass mRNA vaccination would have evaporated. Tucker calls it 'close to zero' prosecutions for those responsible.
A peer-reviewed randomized controlled trial found that COVID patients given lithium (2×40 mg/day) left the hospital in half the time, with no ICU admissions and no deaths, versus the control group.
A Cordoba study published in September 2020 found that giving COVID patients the vitamin D prohormone (25-hydroxy vitamin D) reduced the likelihood of going to intensive care by 25-fold.
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