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Dr. Anthony Fauci supplements his diet with two vitamins: C and D.
For the general public, he recommends getting enough sleep, maintaining a healthy diet, and avoiding or alleviating stress as the three most potent ways to keep your immune system strong.
"That is much more healthy living than giving yourself supplements of anything," he said.
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Dr. Anthony Fauci is, at this point in the pandemic, getting used to having his words twisted around into things he never really said.
"Always, always it'll get taken out of context and misconstrued," the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said during our recent lunchtime chat. "I've gotten used to living with that."
Recently, the issue came up when he told the actress Jennifer Garner that he takes two supplements: vitamin D and vitamin C.
"If people want to take a gram or so of vitamin C, that would be fine," he said at the time.
Certain corners of the internet started touting his words as evidence that he knows something we don't, as if he were hiding information about a silver bullet.
But he was not mandating the practice for the general public, nor was he suggesting popping vitamins is a surefire way to avoid getting sick. Rather, he said, he was just answering a question.
"I had made it very clear when people asked about what vitamins I take, and I try to explain it," Fauci said.
If you ask him, Fauci will still say, without question, the best ways to control the pandemic are the measures he's been recommending endlessly for months: good hand hygiene, mask-wearing, and social distancing.
For some people, adding a little extra vitamin D might make sense.
Ref: MSN
