Before I get to the main part of this article, a number of people have contacted me recently, asking why I haven’t sent out any newsletters for a while, some asking whether I had been silenced for daring to speak out on certain health topics. Well, I haven’t been censored. It was simply that I have been quite busy, and those who had been convinced by the BBC, and social media sites that having experimental poisons plunged into their bloodstreams would make them healthier, which was obviously absurd, or prevent them from getting a coronavirus, when mainstream medicine had failed for decades to develop a successful vaccine against them (the common cold for example is a coronavirus, it just doesn’t happen to be specifically the “coronavirus”), had already subjected themselves to this unfortunate procedure.
Well, we now know that the experimental chemicals didn’t prevent catching or spread of the latest one, and just as I predicted in March 2020, practically everyone had the illness in the end (myself included, though I wasn’t unwell for long), especially if they lived in an urban jungle like London. And that’s what eventually put water on the fire – just as I predicted from day one. How come I called it correctly, when all these Professor’s who are much cleverer than me academically were so, so utterly wrong?
And the final reason was that unlike these annoying companies who pester you literally with daily emails trying to sell you something once you’ve purchased from them or signed up to their newsletter, I try not to irritate people by flooding their inboxes with the sole intention of making more money. It annoys me when others do this (and I usually unsubscribe when they do), so I don’t do it myself.
Nutrients to help restore sense of taste and smell
On to my main topic. I probably should have sent out this article a year ago, but I suppose everything happens when it is meant to happen. There isn’t massive amount of information on products that help with loss of taste or smell, but what I can share with you are the nutrients below, which seem to help. Please note, I am not recommending the following for or after suffering with any specific illness. The following have been researched and found to have helped with loss of taste or smell regardless of the cause.
1. Zinc
Smell/Taste alteration in COVID-19 may reflect zinc deficiency – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7844651/
In actual fact, since everyone is deficient in zinc unless they are taking a zinc supplement which I have discussed in previous newsletters, and everyone’s health will improve by taking 15-20mg of zinc per day, long term, it’s one of these areas where you can’t go wrong whether or not your senses have been impaired. We sell a lot of decent quality zinc products, but when pressed in most cases I recommend zinc gluconate or zinc gluconate with vitamin B6 based on effectiveness and being competitively priced. Respected pharmacologist, turned natural health therapist, Sherridan L. Stock put it succinctly and accurately in his article “Zinc Metabolic Miracle Worker” when he concluded that “Of course man cannot live by zinc alone, but there is little doubt in my mind that the single step of supplementing zinc will do much to enhance the health, well-being and probably longevity of everyone”.
2. Apha Lipoic Acid (ALA)
Lipoic Acid in the treatment of smell dysfunction following viral infection of the upper respiratory tract – https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12439184/
Alpha Lipoic Acid (ALA) is a wonderful anti aging, super-antioxidant, which supports mitrochondrial function, healthy cell division and overall good health. It is often combined with carnitine, which has similar benefits. You can ‘google’ both of them for yourselves for detailed information going beyond this article. We provide this one or this one, which is more expensive, but a higher proportion of ALA to carnitine. Perhaps the best choice though is Liposomal R-Lipoic Acid as Liposomal nutrients are absorbed much better than regular nutrients.
There is also Poly-MVA (palladium linked alpha lipoic acid), which I regard as top of the range, and commonly purchased for use by people only with quite serious illness due it being horribly expensive. Most people reading this can probably make do with one of the more competitively priced ones above.
3. Omega 3 Oil
Effect of Omega-3 Supplementation in Patients With Smell Dysfunction Following Endoscopic Sellar and Parasellar Tumor Resection – https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31950156/
Omega 3 is famous for being anti inflammatory throughout the body. I’d rather not opt for any one product here as we provide quite a wide range of vegan and non vegan Omega 3 as well as other essential fatty acid products here https://www.thefinchleyclinic.com/shop/all_fatty_acids-f-53.html
4. Vitamin D
A vital nutrient for immunity, I believe that everyone should supplement with Vitamin D. The best selling ones we provide are Vitamin D3 5000iu (125mcg) with Vitamin K2 and Plant Based Vitamin D 5,000iu followed by Liposomal Vitamin D3/K2 – (LVD1) Cherry and Vanilla flavour. Don’t bother with the 400ius doctors recommend, if they bother to recommend it at all, as such a low dosage will do absolutely nothing.
And here are the possible connections with loss of taste and smell…
A possible correlation between vitamin D deficiency and loss of smell – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3315864/
Effect of vitamin D on olfactory function – http://www.b-ent.be/Content/files/sayilar/98/86-91.pdf
5. Vitamin B12
This is extremely anecdotal, but a few years ago, a customer called me, almost leaping out at me on the phone with joy to tell me that taking Methyl B12 (B12 with B6 and folic acid) had restored his lost sense of taste, as well as unexplained tongue pain. I have no idea whether this result is repeatble, but I thought I’d mention it.
Other products that may help.
Anything that helps increase circulation (and therefore blood supply), such as Ginkgo Biloba. Ginkgo is interesting because it’s also a rich source of the antioxidant quercetin. During the Covid pandemic, the oft censored, Dr Joeseph Mercola and others recommended quercetin to treat Covid-19. It’s mode of action was that it helped get zinc into the cells. One would assume that when taking zinc to help with loss of smell, quercetin would also be helpful given that quercetin activates zinc. Quercetin is also a wonderful lung cleanser, immune builder and anti-aging antioxidant in it’s own right.
Vitamin K2-7 (when used long term to prevent arterial calcification), will also help circulation, and Oxylift is also tremendously helpful, for the same reason as Vitamin K2-7. The same could probably be said of all products that help improve mitochondrial function, which I wrote about back in June in my article COMBATTING LONG COVID / POST VIRAL FATIGUE .
Best wishes from me and the rest of my team
Mark G. Lester
Director and Overall Clever Cloggs
The Finchley Clinic