Epidemic or Pandemic: Every species gets the same disease. Reversing the obesity, prediabetes, and type 2 diabetes epidemic is today’s most important public health challenge.
Nearly 70% of the population is insulin resistant, prediabetic, or frankly diabetic.
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About COVID-19:
We are all going to be exposed to this virus eventually.
A virus is just a virus, it lacks morality, or politics.
A virus only expresses itself based upon the host’s biochemical capacity.
This particular virus hijacks hosts that are predisposed to metabolic inflammation and have a pre-existing cytokine storm.
We are already getting blood samples for IgG and IgM, which measure the antibody to the virus.
Testing for the virus is mandatory to define its prevalence and spread potential, but the actionable tests are of host biochemistry.
What we should also be evaluating is:
HgBA1C
Insulin Level
Fructosamine
GGT
HS-CRP
ESR
LDL-P
LPIR
Omega 6:3 ratio
We need these tests to determine what the true at risk population, to reduce the damage from the virus. Because we are all going to be exposed to the virus eventually.
Exposure, infection, morbidity, and mortality vary widely based upon the host biochemistry.
This virus is merely the spark igniting a bonfire in the presence of accelerants. Let’s take away the accelerants because we live in a world of potential sparks all the time.
Human behavior controls the accelerants, we don’t control the sparks.
I think hospital workers may be getting more infected because of the design of the ventilators. They are an open loop.
They are not like an anesthesia ventilator which is a closed-loop. This virus is airborne and exhaled.
There is no scavenger in the normal ICU ventilator.
When every species gets the same disease, is it an epidemic or a pandemic? Reversing the obesity, prediabetes, and type 2 diabetes epidemic is today’s most important public health challenge.
Every single species exposed to the standard American diet becomes overweight, pre-diabetic, or diabetic type 2. It takes a conscious effort to prevent and reverse this. Something in our nutritional intake is defeating our normal regulatory mechanisms.
Less than 12.2% of the population is metabolically healthy. If any other disease or impending catastrophe were going to injure nearly 88% of the US population, I guarantee that someone would have declared a true national emergency.