Pneumonia is a major killer in the developing world, and remains a significant problem even here in the United States. Roughly 2 percent of the population suffers from pneumonia every year and it remains a leading killer of children under four and the elderly. An astonishing 8% of deaths in United States hospitals in 2001 were from pneumonia.

Pneumonia is caused by poor quality care that starts at home. Preventing pneumonia can almost be seen as a choice. Exercise, good food, and vitamin supplements prevent pale faces, dark circles under the eyes, and cavities. Read more here, here, here, here, here and here. Before choosing a doctor, or a school, or a town to live in, investigate the prevalence of pneumonia. In the nation’s healthiest communities, the prevalance of pneumonia is near zero.

Unfortunately, healthy places/institutions are the exception rather than the rule. One reason is that many physicians don’t accept the importance of vitamin supplements. A more important reason is that an obviously effective vitamin cocktail has been slow to emerge. Serious respiratory infections almost always precede pneumonia, and pale faces, dark circles, and/or cavities almost always precede serious respiratory infections. The world’s leading vitamin experts have only recently formulated the following vitamin cocktail featuring the vitamins associated with all four named pandemic vitamin deficiency diseases. The best time to try the cocktail is at the very onset of a respiratory infection or during the “lingering” period of a bad respiratory infection. Here is the cocktail:

25000 IU of vitamin A
6000 mg of vitamin C
4000 IU of vitamin D
250 mg of time release niacin
200 mg of thiamine

Most people who have tried this cocktail have reported it to be effective immediately (within hours). The doses are too high to take every day and are not recommended for more than three consecutive days. Our society is currently caught in a cycle of vitamin deficiency that requires the extreme action represented by this vitamin cocktail. Using this cocktail to prevent cavities, pneumonia, and anorexia will persuade unhealthy communities that vitamin deficiency is indeed epidemic.

There is no need to think about how, why, how much, or who. The vitamins in the cocktail are safe, inexpensive, and available in pharmacies, grocery stores, and from a multitude of internet retailers. Choose to try the cocktail and find out whether it helps you (and the children and elderly who depend upon you) or choose not to try the cocktail and to never know. No studies or theories, or textbooks can ever say with certainty that this simple treatment won’t improve your health and the health of your dependents. No committees or double blind trials can settle the argument. Why wait for double blind trials and committee reports when for less effort you can just try the vitamin cocktail yourself. The choice is yours.