So here's the thing with saying it work, and before you guys go nuclear on me, I'm not against ivermectin. I in fact, hope to have some on hand, unfortunately I catch covid again. But, as it stands, there is less than 2% chance of death from covid. As it has been said many times in this thread and the other big thread on this subject, the vast majority of people get through covid just fine. If that's the case, you two and many others, could have been just fine as well regardless of the ivermectin.
I've seen various studies on it from biased and non biased sources, and it's still a toss up as to whether or not it works from what I seen. There are HIGHLY respected Dr's who swear by it, and there are HIGHLY respected Dr's who say it doesn't work. Tell someone who doesnt believe it works, and they'll show you a study that it does. Tell someone who says it does work, and they'll show you a study that it doesn't.
Some of the websites showing studies for ivermectin have some serious flaws behind them. The websites don't include protocol registration with methods, search strategies, inclusion criteria, quality assessment of the included studies or the certainty of the evidence of the pooled estimates.
I believe Ivermectin has its place and helps, but there are some red flags with a lot of the studies posted.
I don’t think anyone will go nuclear on anyone for questioning anything…the problem a lot of people have is, people say it doesn’t work, they follow up with telling you to take the vaccine…nothing more
taking ivermectin or even the vaccine is a personal decision, if you want to take it, cool, if you dont, cool
most of the complaints I’ve seen are sample size of the studies but when you take all the studies the sample size is big enough
lack of double blind studies which during a pandemic do we really want to be conducting double blind studies? If I was 60 with Covid, I don’t want to be part of some study, the drug is proven safe, give it to me
Combining ivermectin with other things; which I think only makes sense to have a combination of things, I hope people don’t take the vaccine and that’s it, they should still be looking to increase their health and recovery if they get the virus
The studies have different dosing protocols which is normal since no one really knows the sweet spot
There was even a study of 20 mechanisms of ivermectin that couldn’t get peer reviewed simply because the authors included wording that suggested it’s benefit, luckily the authors fixed it and it went through but for some time, a lot of ppl hung their hats on that study being proof the ivermectin wasn’t effective
At the end of the day, we are on a bodybuilding site where people take supplements that provide maybe a 1% benefit…so if ivermectin only provided a small benefit, many people should at least have the ability to try it
same with vitamin d and zinc, it may only help a bit but many people find that to be worth it for them to take
at least for me, when I get Covid, I’d like to recover as quickly as possible, weather it be less symptoms or even feeling better a day or two quicker, especially if I can take something that isn’t detrimental to my health and it sounds like your in the same mind set