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Preventive Medicine by DR. BARRY
Same as it ever was... I was hoping to be able to write about something other than coronavirus this month, hoping that the situation would be substantially behind us, but as I prepare this column that is clearly not the case. Of course I have recommended vitamin D, vitamin C and zinc, all of which are pretty obvious, generally available, extraordinarily safe supplements you can take to try and minimize your likelihood of infection and/or minimize the degree of infection if you get it. Hopefully, by the time this article is published we will have the antibody testing available for everyone who wants it. We will finally start to get a handle on who had a trivial infection and have a better sense of the real death rate, etc. I sent a reference to a video in an email to all of my private patients but I feel it’s important enough to share with you as well. This video was one done by dr. Paul Masson and it’s entitled “How to Survive The Coronavirus; The Effect Of Diet Part 1”. The link is here https://www.youtube. com/watch?v=4lJPjsuftmQ . On my radio show I have talked about the possible role of high dose intravenous vitamin C, the role of ultraviolet light and the role of ozone in the treatment of viral infections, but this is something that requires medical intervention. You can’t do any of these on your own. Doctor Mason’s video is about what YOU can do to improve your health and immune system. He focuses on the diet which is music to my ears. He aslso elaborates on diabetes, obesity , hypertension and heart disease, all of which increase
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your risk of ending up in the ICU. Age is a risk factor but seems to be really related to the underlying illness not just the age. Healthy old people have less risk than sick young people or so the data shows so far. Dr Mason reviews the issues of metabolic syndrome... high waist circumference, hypertension, high triglycerides, low hdl cholesterol and fasting glucose over 100. Statistically speaking only 12% of adults in America have none of the risk factors for metabolic syndrome. Insulin resistance , a hallmark of metabolic syndrome, clearly impairs the immune system in multiple ways. Even the cytokine storm is related to insulin resistance. Of course you can be insulin resistant for years before your blood glucose goes up so your doctor must check your insulin not your blood glucose to find out if you are insulin resistant. Most doctors just don’t run this test. It’s cheap, easy to order and it’s easy to interpret. Luckily you can change your insulin resistance very rapidly by changing your diet and removing the bulk of carbohydrates in your diet. Lose the sugar and regain your health. Yes, I know you are addicted to sugar...we all are. But study after study shows that low carb diets improve health...resolve insulin resistance...promote weight loss, etc. Dr Mason also reviews cholesterol and how high cholesterol is protective against infection. That’s right, high hdl cholesterol continued on pg 31
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