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so today we’re gonna talk about the Black Plague and the somewhat recent

discovery about the true nature of this pandemic which is actually quite

interesting because it relates to nutrition so this pandemic roughly

occurred in the year 1348 and don’t quote me it’s right

around this period of time it could happen a little bit before or a little

bit after but there are between 70 to 200 million people who died in that

pandemic and the discovery that they made was in an unmarked grave in the

north part of London where they dug up these skeletons and they study these

skeletons and they found a good handful of these skeletons had rickets I don’t

know if you know much about rickets but all you need to know is that is a

vitamin D deficiency they also found they had very bad teeth which is also a

vitamin D deficiency they found they were anemic based on the bone

composition they also found a lot of injuries as if

these people were in a war and right around that time there was a war in fact

there was a war for a hundred years so you have the combination of malnutrition

and a war that would create a perfect storm for a weakened immune system I

mean think about it if a child has rickets and there’s a lot of kids that

have rickets the parents are also going to have a vitamin D deficiency because

rickets is a severe vitamin D deficiency you can imagine if you’re that low in

vitamin D you’re not going to have a good immune system at all because the

vitamin D deficiency will create a susceptibility to infection and also

will lower the number of white blood cells

that’s your army that fights off the infection also it creates a weakness

within the strength of your white blood cells they’re not able to create

generate the weaponry to defend themselves so you send in the battle

without the weapons and they all get killed you also will have less control

over inflammation especially in now this also relates to a pandemic that

occurred in 1918 called the Spanish flu in which over I think 50 to a hundred

million people died now what was interesting about this pandemic versus

this one there’s some similarities this one also peaked in the dead of winter in

January which is the time of the year where you had the least amount of

vitamin D in the body also you had a war World War 1 and in that war you had a

huge shift in what people ate they had to preserve foods and they started

canning foods and boxing foods and anytime you do that you start dropping

the nutritional levels big-time so you really didn’t have a lot of fresh

nutrient-dense foods especially the soldiers and because this was a world

war involving many different countries you had many more people dying and you

also had a lot of malnutrition all over the globe so my point about this

pandemic was this also was related to malnutrition I mean take a look at COVID-19

the people that are dying are older and people with a weakened immune system

that’s what we should be focusing on just as much as we’re in the mask

washing your hands so if you wanted more information about how to boost a healthy

immune system check this video out right here