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so I want to talk about oxidative stress and viruses so lately there’s been a big

focus on how the COVID-19 virus is killing people and it has to do with

something called oxidative stress and that’s basically where you have an

imbalance of too much oxidation and not enough antioxidants now your body

actually makes oxidation or oxidants it also makes antioxidants that’s called

endogenous which means that it’s coming from within then you have exogenous

oxidation which is coming from the outside like pollution smoking consuming refined

carbs and sugar all increase oxidation now the other thing is that when you get

in viral infection let’s just talk about the COVID-19 virus on a blood test

you’ll see high amounts of neutrophils and low lymphocytes let me explain what

that means neutrophils are part of the innate immune system and they are a type

of phagocyte that has three ways of killing things it can release chemicals

that kill the pathogen it can eat the pathogen it can also throw a net over

the pathogen and kill it that way as well because there are certain chemicals

that are released a couple chemicals that are released from the neutrophil

are hydrogen peroxide and bleach or the main chemical in Bleach and these two

chemicals are the weapons that the neutrophil uses to kill microbes and

they create a lot of oxidation so we have our own immune system that is

creating this oxidation in response to COVID-19 or some other virus and of

course the virus is creating other immune reactions which is then

contributing to more oxidation then we have the risk factors that are related

to COVID-19 that would be diabetes obesity high blood pressure so with

obesity you have a situation where you have a lot more oxidation and

inflammation diabetes you’re getting a lot of oxidation

the high amounts of sugar and the same thing with cardiovascular disease

definitely with the autoimmune conditions all of those not only make

you susceptible to getting the infection but having a lot of complications the

complications of these pre-existing conditions let’s say for example

diabetes you’d have peripheral neuropathy of your feet your vision is

affected you have heart problems and especially the lungs the other problem

with having a pre-existing health problem is that when you do your

endogenous antioxidants which means the amount of antioxidants that your body is

making is way way less so we have this imbalance that’s created with the virus

itself and then the immune system or reaction which creates more of this on

top of that having a preexisting health problem is just enough to really throw

this thing out of balance to then really have an influence on your mortality so

to have a long healthy life and to minimize the complications of not only

in this condition but the side effects of the viral infection you need to take

these antioxidants and bring them up and bring this right down here some people

that are infected never even notice one symptom at all yet other people really

get hammered really it’s the oxidative stress from

these conditions it’s creating the damage now the other thing that viruses

will do they will attack the mitochondria which is the energy Factory

so that’s called apoptosis where your cells are actually dying but there’s

going to be some cells that survive this attack and they’re gonna adapt because

the respiratory center is damaged which is the normal machinery to burning fuel

it will adapt to another way of using fuel and that’s called fermentation

which doesn’t need oxygen and it’s an older system that our body doesn’t

normally use unless it needs to use it as a survival mechanism so here we have

several cells that have adapted and they’re using this

back up machinery or generator to actually use fuel and they metabolize

glucose so this is one way that a virus can trigger cancer what’s really wild

about this mechanism is that as soon as a cell switches over to this new type of

machine it will lose its ability to die in other words cancer cells are immortal

and that’s what’s really really strange about this because the way that the

cancer cell spreads and takes over is that it just continues to grow and grow

and grow where our normal cells they have a certain limit where they will

grow too and then they will die off so yes they become zombies and they just

hog up all the fuel but remember they can only eat glucose but the cancer

cells will also create a tremendous amount of inflammation free radical

damage and oxidation so we have a lot of things going on so what can we do to

switch this back well number one you’d want to start fixing the pre-existing

health problems okay the metabolic syndrome the the diabetes the heart

disease you do that with changing the diet but at the same time we also want

to start eating foods high in these things called antioxidants this will do

two things number one it will put the fire out of this oxidative state in

other words if you’re taking antioxidants you’ll minimize the

complications of these conditions and minimize the complications of viral

infections that I’m talking about lung inflammation if you are in the hospital

with COVID-19 you should be taking as many oxidants as you can get vitamin A

vitamin C especially vitamin D vitamin E here’s another one alpha

lipoic acid then you have trace minerals that act as antioxidants copper zinc

especially zinc selenium is a big one manganese vitamin B1 B2 B6 and B12 are all

considered antioxidants having good microbes also will help increase your

antioxidants so if you get an antibiotic guess what you wipe out the good

bacteria and your antioxidants go down another really good antioxidant is

called NAC this antioxidant is used for tylenol poisoning because tylenol will

destroy the liver if you take this it will reduce the amount of oxidation quercetin

is a really good one especially for people that have allergies that have

a lot of inflammation fasting will increase your network of antioxidants

very very important to know about that exercise will also increase your network

of your endogenous antioxidants and getting enough sleep will also increase

this so we can actually decrease that’s right here now if you haven’t seen this

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