Agreed.
Per the acknowledgements the Doctor has patent pending formulations which may be available soon, if not already. I had to dig deep to minimize my skepticism after reading the acknowledgement and I love supps. How do you say there are no conflicts after that? Maybe I need to read it again.
Seems similar to info on University of AZ's Covid-19 page last year regarding supps (shorter list of options) along with a few other medical professionals.
Once I saw the patent pending formulation, I knew it would be biased. Not that it would not work. Vitamins can work! PERIOD.
Full disclosure: in 2007 I found a lump in my breast, my primary doctor (a former OB/GYN now in Family Practice) confirmed it and was referred to an orthopedic surgeon. He thought it was awesome I had a degree in Clinical Nutrition. Once we realized it was benign, he put me on a vitamin treatment to rid the lump based on 1 paper. OTC vitamins. No drugs....Nothing that he was selling. So he was not making money other than visit/consult fees.
I was required to check back with him every 3 months for 18 months.
It worked within a few months. The lump never came back.
PERIOD.
Doesn't mean it will work for everyone. And treatments like that in the above paper SHOULD be under the supervision of a Medical Doctor because it is a treatment plan. Heck in Florida a Health Coach or ND would be fined HEAVILY and dragged into court if someone other than a Licensed Dietitian like myself or Medical Doctor recommended a treatment plan FOR a doctor-diagnosed medical condition.
However, what is likely to happen is this patent-pending product will drop, and people with beg for it in mass quantities based on this paper and similar ones. Then accuse the CDC and FDA (who cannot approve supplements by Federal Law) of "keeping the cure." The demand for the product will go up...its investors will get rich and those with means and willing doctors will receive the treatment. Poor people, working class people will not. Same for the Hydrochloroquine, same for the ECMO treatment if you can get it, and same for the situation with Regeneron or other antibody treatments that black people seem to not have access to.
Rinse
Repeat.