Iron deficiency in long COVID

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Zusammenfassung

TLDRThe video explores the connection between blood iron levels and Long COVID, detailing how low iron can exacerbate COVID-19 severity and contribute to persistent symptoms. It discusses the immune system's reliance on iron for proper function and how deficiencies can arise from factors like menstruation and lockdowns. The speaker highlights the importance of maintaining adequate iron levels for vaccine efficacy and overall health, particularly in women. Potential treatments for Long COVID related to iron levels are also mentioned, emphasizing the need for further research in this area.

Mitbringsel

  • 🩸 Low iron levels can worsen COVID-19 severity.
  • 👩‍⚕️ Women are more prone to iron deficiency due to menstruation.
  • 🔬 Iron is crucial for immune function and response.
  • 📉 Lockdowns may increase the risk of iron deficiency.
  • 💉 Vaccine efficacy can be influenced by iron levels.
  • 🧠 Long COVID symptoms may relate to iron deficiency.
  • 🍽️ Dietary sources of iron include meat and spinach.
  • ⚠️ Reactive oxygen species can be harmful in excess iron.
  • 💊 Treatments for Long COVID may involve managing iron levels.
  • 📊 Prolonged inflammation and irregular iron usage predict Long COVID risk.

Zeitleiste

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    The video discusses the relationship between blood iron levels and Long COVID, summarizing the science behind it and the importance of iron in immune function. It highlights the lack of solutions for Long COVID and the need for further research.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    The speaker explains how low blood iron levels can worsen COVID-19 severity and contribute to Long COVID. They mention the prevalence of iron deficiency in the population and its potential impact on vaccine efficacy.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:15:00

    The link between iron and the immune system is explored, emphasizing recent discoveries about iron's role in immune responses and how deficiencies can lead to severe COVID-19 symptoms.

  • 00:15:00 - 00:20:00

    The video outlines the hallmarks of COVID-19, including hyperinflammation and low blood iron levels, and discusses the implications of these findings for patient outcomes and treatment strategies.

  • 00:20:00 - 00:25:00

    Statistics are provided showing that a significant percentage of hospitalized COVID-19 patients exhibit iron deficiency, correlating low iron levels with increased disease severity.

  • 00:25:00 - 00:30:00

    The speaker explains the body's natural response to infections, which includes reducing blood iron levels to limit pathogen growth, and how this can lead to complications in severe COVID-19 cases.

  • 00:30:00 - 00:35:00

    The discussion shifts to Long COVID, noting that prolonged inflammation and irregular iron usage are predictive factors for developing this condition after COVID-19 infection.

  • 00:35:00 - 00:40:00

    The video highlights the symptoms of Long COVID, such as fatigue and brain fog, and connects these symptoms to iron deficiency and its effects on oxygen delivery in the body.

  • 00:40:00 - 00:45:08

    The speaker discusses the impact of menstruation on iron levels, particularly in women, and how heavy menstrual bleeding can lead to significant iron loss, contributing to deficiencies and Long COVID.

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Video-Fragen und Antworten

  • How do blood iron levels affect COVID-19 severity?

    Low blood iron levels can lead to anemia, reducing oxygen transport in the body, which may worsen COVID-19 severity.

  • What is Long COVID?

    Long COVID refers to a range of symptoms that persist after the acute phase of a COVID-19 infection, affecting many individuals.

  • Why are women more affected by Long COVID?

    Women may experience more iron deficiency due to menstruation, which can contribute to Long COVID symptoms.

  • What are the symptoms of iron deficiency?

    Symptoms include fatigue, poor performance, hair loss, and cold extremities.

  • What treatments are suggested for Long COVID related to iron levels?

    Potential treatments include hepsin inhibitors and interleukin-6 inhibitors to manage iron levels and inflammation.

  • How can lockdowns influence iron deficiency?

    Lockdowns can lead to changes in diet and physical activity, potentially increasing the risk of iron deficiency.

  • What dietary sources can help replenish iron?

    Iron can be replenished through foods like meat, fish, soybeans, and spinach.

  • What is the role of transferrin in iron transport?

    Transferrin is a protein that carries iron in the blood, facilitating its transport to cells.

  • How does menstruation affect iron levels in women?

    Menstruation can lead to significant iron loss, making women more susceptible to iron deficiency.

  • What is the significance of reactive oxygen species in relation to iron?

    Excess free iron can lead to the production of reactive oxygen species, which can damage tissues.

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    today I'm going to make a video on how
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    your blood iron levels can contribute to
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    Long Co this is going to be my last
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    video in a long series dedicated to Long
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    Co and then I'm going to wrap it all up
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    all the science I've been studying on
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    that topic including what are the
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    recommended tests and treatments for
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    oneco remember we still don't have
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    actual solution for us to what to do
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    when it comes to long coov at all which
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    is one of the reasons why I'm pursuing
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    the science
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    and the iron levels it's very
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    fascinating story because we if I
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    remember everything correctly then I'm
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    going to talk about how how low iron
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    blood iron levels can be contributing to
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    the severity of the covid-19 disease how
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    it contributes to Long Co but also we're
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    going to discuss it how prevalent iron
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    deficiency is in the population how it
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    can also how lockdowns could have
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    influenced it as well and even also how
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    it could influence vaccine efficiency if
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    if one took a covid-19 vaccine and that
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    might have had an a factor as to
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    basically how well the vaccine worked
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    for you versus not and then finally
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    we're even going to talk about this
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    mystery that I was curious about
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    remember I recently did a video on the
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    use of the vegus nerve neurom modulation
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    so activation of your Vegas nerve to
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    treat one of the most common and and
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    persistent problems related to Long COV
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    which is your brain fog as well as in
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    this particular video it was focused on
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    anxiety and depression via activation of
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    your vus nerve using your ear and
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    electrical
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    stimulation and I mentioned in that
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    video that women are more frequently
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    affected than men when it comes to Long
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    Co and we're going to
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    discuss in relation to iron deficiency
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    as to why that might be my name is Dr M
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    rashik of marog genomics let's get going
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    again arm yourself in patience this is
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    not going to be short video I doubt but
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    let's see how it works out
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    so first we're going to talk about the
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    link between iron and your immune system
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    and the reason why I want to bring this
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    up is because I just want to point out
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    how new this information is we are
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    literally this is something that we're
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    just recently discovering and learning
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    and this was discovered in only
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    2016 so it just goes to show you I keep
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    saying this in numerous of my videos
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    that we still have enormous gaps of
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    knowledge when it comes to understanding
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    our immune systems and how our immune
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    system will be responding to something
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    as complex as
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    vaccines and this is one of these gaps
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    and this is still one of the gaps of
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    knowledge for a lot of Prof Healthcare
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    Professionals in terms of that
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    relationship between say your IR own
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    blood levels and and vaccines and going
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    back to the 2016 unusual Discovery there
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    was a person who had a mutation this
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    specific
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    mutation in a protein called transfer
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    transfer receptor and this protein
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    transfer and receptor its role is to
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    take up transfer out of circulation out
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    of the blood and stick it inside cells
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    if you can say it like that transferin
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    is a protein in your blood that
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    transfers iron so this is how Iron can
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    be moved about in your throughout your
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    body via circulation so what was
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    expected that such a mutation in this
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    transfer receptor protein would achieve
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    is that it would re result in basically
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    iron deficiency
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    anemia and let me just tell you what
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    anemia is anemia is basically when you
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    don't have enough iron in your body so
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    that your bone marrow doesn't have
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    enough iron to start producing
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    hemoglobin hemoglobin are the molecules
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    in your red blood cells that carry
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    oxygen so then if you have anemia you
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    don't have the proper capacity to move
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    around oxygen okay so that would have
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    been expected from from that mutation
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    but instead something completely
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    different was observed and basically Al
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    that individual was presenting with
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    severe imuno
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    deficiency and again remember this is
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    only mere not even a decade ago that
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    this discovery was made and subsequently
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    it was then understood so this was the
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    first discovery and then it was
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    subsequently understood via further work
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    and further analysis that iron is
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    absolutely necessary for proper immune
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    function and immune responses and that
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    deficiencies in your levels will affect
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    your ability to properly respond or to
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    viral or pathogen infections and your
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    vaccine so that has already been very
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    well worked out and
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    understood let me show you what I'm
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    walking on quite a beautiful but
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    treacherous uh treacherous environment
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    so if I'm very slow this is why all
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    right so this that then led to further
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    understanding all right iron is needed
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    in in proper response to infections and
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    therefore it was no longer a surprise
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    that iron levels how good a person might
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    have iron levels might affect covid-19
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    and this indeed has been observed so
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    what are the some of the Hallmarks of
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    covid-19 especially as you go into the
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    more severe situations so number one
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    that we probably are now all familiar
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    with is hyperinflammation so this High
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    inflammatory state right and that's one
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    of the major Hallmarks of covid-19 right
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    but there's other Hallmarks as well or
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    other other observations can be made so
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    another one
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    was low blood iron levels that's that's
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    referred to as
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    hypothermia so notice the difference in
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    the two words I apologize if my accent
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    doesn't allow you to differ Che but
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    hyper as in hyperinflammation means
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    something hyper means something too much
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    of hypo means something too little of so
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    hypo Foria meaning too little iron in
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    this case in circulation so that's
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    another observation and of course if you
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    have that's in other words hypothermia
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    means iron deficiency and this is what
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    can lead to
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    anemia or basically your inability to
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    properly build your blood cells that can
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    carry oxygen so you'll be starved for
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    oxygen with
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    anemia
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    and such individuals covid-19 they also
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    feature low levels of this protein
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    called transferin now transferin itself
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    is a protein that as I mentioned earlier
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    will carry iron in your body circulation
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    okay so uh that one basically think of
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    like this is in your blood and it moves
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    the iron from one part of the body to
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    another so transferring is strictly to
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    transfer iron levels around your body
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    okay so covid-19 patients can present
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    with low levels of that
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    protein okay so another one
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    is sorry one
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    moment high levels of another protein
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    called fertin now what's that all about
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    fertin is yet another Protein that's the
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    protein that stores iron inside your
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    cells so it's a storage protein so once
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    the iron via transfer is brought to a
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    specific type of cells this would be say
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    either liver spleen bone marrow as
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    examples then these cells can take up
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    that transfer and Via transfer and
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    receptor and it can start storing iron
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    inside those cells and uses that protein
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    fertin to store iron now what's
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    interesting about fertin is that you can
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    also have some of it in a circulation
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    and it absolutely correlates with your
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    iron deficiency so the more fertin you
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    have in the circulation in your blood
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    floating around the more likely you are
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    to exhibit iron deficiency so covid-19
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    patients had high levels of
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    fertin and that's referred to as hyper
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    Feria again that word hyper too much of
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    and the reason why I bring that up as
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    well is because that's second Hallmark
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    of covid-19 that is very frequently
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    observed in co9 patients and I'll give
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    you some statistics right away and the
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    last last measurable marker that um
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    clinicians would have observed during
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    covid-19 is two high levels of a protein
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    called I think it was called heidin now
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    what is heidin this is a protein that
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    regulates movement of iron levels from
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    the storage from the within cells into
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    the blood so we talked about how Iron
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    can move around blood via transfer how
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    it can enter cells and be stored inside
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    cells via V via fertin now heidin can
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    now regulate how
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    how the iron can move from the storage
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    into the blood and we'll talk about that
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    in a second as well so they also had two
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    high levels of this protein called
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    heidin
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    and again if you have too much of that
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    protein in your circulation it will
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    clearly demonstrate that you will not
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    have enough iron in your circulation all
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    right so these are the Hallmarks and how
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    frequent is this just to give you some
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    of the
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    stats basically
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    and based on some of the published
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    literature 90% of all individuals who
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    were hospitalized would
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    show hypothermia or basically iron
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    deficiency and when it comes to patients
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    getting into ICU they mentioned the in
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    one of the articles I read mentioned
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    that basically within 3 days of getting
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    to ICU when if the blood markers were
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    measured then we're talking about like
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    over 70% of these individuals would show
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    low iron levels too much fertin and too
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    little transfer so
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    clearly the proper regulation of iron in
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    these individuals is not there and that
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    is a very common feature and what what
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    has
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    emerged fairly early on is that how
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    little iron an individual
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    had in the circulation tended to
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    correlate with eventual severity of the
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    covid-19 disease now we'll talk about
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    why this is so important right away is
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    because of how how prevalent iron
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    deficiency can be in our population so
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    we'll touch back on
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    that and basically the less iron a per
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    person had the more likely they were
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    going to be hospit hospitalized and have
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    and end up with severe covid-19 there is
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    a bit of a trick as well which I'll talk
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    about right away that so it might sound
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    confusing but basically The Deco message
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    here is that what the what one of the
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    authors that of multiple papers that I
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    studied for this video mentioned
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    that what could have determined How
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    likely the person were was going to end
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    up with severe Co was their existing
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    levels of
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    iron why is this and it is because of
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    the fact
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    that we actually have a natural response
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    to pathogens that automatically reduces
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    our blood iron levels the reason why we
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    do this so that iron is purposely
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    scavenged out of your blood during
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    infection such as say covid-19 in order
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    to reduce your blood iron levels
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    because pathogens are are basically
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    dependent on the iron levels in order to
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    replicate and and or duplicate
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    themselves and grow so this is our
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    natural response this hyper H
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    hyperopia or reducing of your blood iron
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    Revels is also a natural response that
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    we have in order to fight infections
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    right and the way this is achieved is
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    via
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    increasing the that heitin protein
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    levels the one that regulates transfer
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    of iron from Storage into the
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    circulation so when you have increased
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    levels of
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    hepsin heidin then starts to degrade or
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    helps to lead to degradation of another
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    protein I think was called ferroportin
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    so that's a protein that helps to move
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    it those iron storage levels from the
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    cells that store iron into the
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    circulation so when hepsen increases
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    that that specific protein that supposed
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    to help move the iron from Storage into
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    the circulation is degraded and you no
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    longer have and you no longer have as
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    much blood iron in the circulation and
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    this Ferro ptin is found in cells such
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    as your liver cells it's found on
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    macrofagos your immune cells so why
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    because macrofagos can actually destroy
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    some of your red blood cells to
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    recirculate iron and you can see how
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    this all now linked to the immune system
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    and and
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    um they're also found in in I think I
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    believe it was bone marrow cells as well
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    so with increased levels of hepsen we
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    can dramatic and quickly decrease levels
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    of available iron iron levels and this
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    way we can fight infection but there is
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    a price to pay for that because if this
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    goes too far and too much then I have to
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    figure out where to
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    go then what can happen is is basically
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    in essence you might not have done
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    enough iron available to you to start
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    producing not this way to start
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    producing red blood cells because there
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    might not be enough iron to produce IM
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    globin so there is that that uh that
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    danger okay so we have a natural
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    defenses defense mechanism and the the
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    authors of this publication that I was
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    reading mentioned that very likely this
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    reduced iron levels we see during Co is
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    that natural response it happens to many
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    infections so covid-19 is simply one of
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    them so uh and this is why they
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    suggested that the severity might be
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    because of H what was your iron levels
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    in the first place prior to being
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    infected and then have that natural
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    response to reduce your iron levels as
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    well but there is a little Kink to all
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    of this there's a little complication so
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    let me tell you about that so what what
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    is going on is I hope I find another
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    path I want to go further along the
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    beach there is
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    um another thing is
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    that your iron levels yes predicted how
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    low your iron levels yes predicted the
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    severity of covid-19 down the road but
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    you started with low iron
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    levels um if you start with low iron
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    levels that resulted in m severity of
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    the covid-19 disease once you started
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    going
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    into severe covid-19 something else
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    happened and back again you would have
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    high iron levels in your circulation so
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    what is going on um basically the
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    authors were saying it's like a u-shape
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    response you can start with low iron
  • 00:16:51
    levels that leads to a problem and then
  • 00:16:54
    you end up with more iron levels and
  • 00:16:56
    that leads to further problems so it's
  • 00:16:58
    sort of like counterintuitive because
  • 00:17:01
    individuals who had no disease basically
  • 00:17:04
    did not have severe covid-19 at all they
  • 00:17:07
    had normal or high iron levels those who
  • 00:17:10
    ended up with mild severity they had low
  • 00:17:13
    iron levels and those who had very high
  • 00:17:15
    severe covid-19 they had again high iron
  • 00:17:18
    levels but here we're talking about a
  • 00:17:20
    different type of iron here we're
  • 00:17:22
    talking about iron levels that are no
  • 00:17:24
    longer bound and transported via your
  • 00:17:27
    blood in your blood via that protein
  • 00:17:29
    transfering we're talking about in these
  • 00:17:32
    situations these individuals had free
  • 00:17:36
    Iron it's also called catalytic iron
  • 00:17:38
    iron and what's going on is that free
  • 00:17:41
    iron or this catalytic iron if you have
  • 00:17:43
    that in your blood it's dangerous
  • 00:17:45
    because iron when it's free and not
  • 00:17:48
    bound to protein either say transfer or
  • 00:17:52
    or fertin it can now start help produce
  • 00:17:56
    reactive oxygen species and if you've
  • 00:17:59
    been following my channel and watch my
  • 00:18:02
    previous videos you probably would have
  • 00:18:04
    heard me mention reactive oxygen species
  • 00:18:08
    are can be very dangerous why because
  • 00:18:11
    precisely because they're so reactive so
  • 00:18:12
    they can start reacting with your
  • 00:18:14
    biological components and as a
  • 00:18:16
    consequence they can start destroying
  • 00:18:18
    things in your body it can also be used
  • 00:18:20
    as a weapon against for example
  • 00:18:23
    pathogens but if it's disregulated and
  • 00:18:25
    there's too much of it it can start
  • 00:18:27
    destroying
  • 00:18:29
    your own tissues for example right so
  • 00:18:31
    you don't necessarily want to have that
  • 00:18:32
    free free iron in order to start
  • 00:18:35
    contributing to such an
  • 00:18:38
    effect and how do we get there H you
  • 00:18:42
    know I got to admit I was a little bit
  • 00:18:44
    hazy on this I tried to study this and
  • 00:18:46
    understand this in Greater detail but
  • 00:18:48
    basically it has to do with the acidity
  • 00:18:51
    of your blood so I find it quite
  • 00:18:54
    fascinating when this concept of the
  • 00:18:56
    blood acidity I've heard
  • 00:18:59
    about this concept many times remember I
  • 00:19:00
    made a video on one of my veg nerve
  • 00:19:04
    videos I discussed how breathing which
  • 00:19:08
    is regulated bya your vegus nerve can
  • 00:19:11
    influence acidity of your blood this is
  • 00:19:14
    also where masking can be really kind of
  • 00:19:16
    tricky the reason why is
  • 00:19:20
    because when you mask you don't properly
  • 00:19:23
    breathe and you don't properly exhale
  • 00:19:25
    carbon dioxide I made a video on this as
  • 00:19:27
    well and as a consequence you can you
  • 00:19:30
    could inadvertently if you wear a mask
  • 00:19:32
    too long increase concentration of
  • 00:19:35
    carbon dioxide in your blood and that
  • 00:19:37
    can result in changing the acidity of
  • 00:19:40
    your
  • 00:19:42
    blood and the point here is that when
  • 00:19:45
    you change the acidity of your blood and
  • 00:19:47
    we're talking about you don't need to
  • 00:19:48
    change much you don't need to think like
  • 00:19:50
    this is dramatic change the type of pH
  • 00:19:54
    of your blood pH measures the acidity of
  • 00:19:56
    your blood is 7.4 once you start going
  • 00:19:59
    below that level of 7.4 which is the
  • 00:20:01
    normal natural acidity of a blood you
  • 00:20:04
    want you can start
  • 00:20:06
    affecting
  • 00:20:08
    basically I'm giggling because I'm
  • 00:20:11
    walking in such unusual
  • 00:20:13
    path so like you can start
  • 00:20:17
    affecting transference ability to bind
  • 00:20:21
    iron and when your blood acidity drops
  • 00:20:24
    transfer will no longer capture iron
  • 00:20:27
    properly as you would want
  • 00:20:30
    I might have
  • 00:20:32
    uh walked myself into a dead end again
  • 00:20:36
    and you end up with that more of that
  • 00:20:39
    free Iron circulating in the blood you
  • 00:20:41
    can now now that you have more of the
  • 00:20:43
    free Iron circulating in the blood
  • 00:20:45
    remember I just mentioned that free or
  • 00:20:47
    catalytic iron iron can start start
  • 00:20:51
    contributing to producing reactive
  • 00:20:54
    oxygen species and this can start
  • 00:20:56
    destroying the tissues and that's might
  • 00:21:00
    explain some of the observations we
  • 00:21:03
    might see with more severe Co
  • 00:21:06
    covid-19 there's another another element
  • 00:21:10
    to all of this and that
  • 00:21:13
    is and that is there's this natural
  • 00:21:17
    process that we
  • 00:21:20
    have and um it's called I think it's
  • 00:21:25
    called hypoxia or hypoxic
  • 00:21:29
    pulmonary Vasa constriction the name is
  • 00:21:32
    not that important to be honest actually
  • 00:21:34
    but the take message is that this is a
  • 00:21:36
    natural process that basically will
  • 00:21:39
    constrict blood certain BL
  • 00:21:42
    arteries that bring blood to your
  • 00:21:45
    lungs under hypoxic conditions meaning
  • 00:21:48
    there's not enough oxygen in the blood
  • 00:21:50
    and the reason why this happens it's a
  • 00:21:52
    natural natural building phenomena is to
  • 00:21:55
    restrict blood flow to areas of your
  • 00:21:58
    lungs that are not ventilating properly
  • 00:22:01
    meaning they don't properly there's no
  • 00:22:03
    good oxygen exchange there and instead
  • 00:22:07
    when this phenomenon happens this Vasa
  • 00:22:09
    constriction you redirect the blood to
  • 00:22:12
    the areas of your lungs that
  • 00:22:14
    will that will help to get more oxygen
  • 00:22:19
    into into basically your blood so via
  • 00:22:24
    this natural
  • 00:22:27
    process you can basically help yourself
  • 00:22:29
    and this
  • 00:22:30
    process fails in covid-19 as well so it
  • 00:22:34
    doesn't work properly and one of the
  • 00:22:36
    reasons why is because it is also
  • 00:22:39
    dependent on high levels of of uh or
  • 00:22:45
    it's also dependent not on high levels
  • 00:22:47
    it's dependent on on iron as
  • 00:22:51
    well so and basically what we're talking
  • 00:22:55
    about is uh that could also explain why
  • 00:22:59
    you have the severity of the disease as
  • 00:23:02
    well is because the iron
  • 00:23:05
    levels that if they're too high in
  • 00:23:08
    circulation at some point they might
  • 00:23:11
    lead to that failure of that proper
  • 00:23:14
    response and you basically end up you
  • 00:23:17
    can see there's there can be like a a
  • 00:23:20
    domino effect where basically you end up
  • 00:23:24
    as a consequence of less and less oxygen
  • 00:23:27
    available to to an individual and you
  • 00:23:30
    end up with having serious issues
  • 00:23:33
    right all right so that's and that's
  • 00:23:37
    just Co covid-19 now let's talk about
  • 00:23:40
    long Co let's jump into long Co so with
  • 00:23:43
    long Co
  • 00:23:44
    obviously the paper I read when it came
  • 00:23:46
    to iron levels and long Co it talked
  • 00:23:49
    about that basically about onethird see
  • 00:23:52
    this these statistics change a little
  • 00:23:54
    bit from paper to paper that I discussed
  • 00:23:57
    but this particular paper mention that
  • 00:23:59
    approximately
  • 00:24:01
    one3 of uh individuals who end up with
  • 00:24:06
    covid-19 they uh they end up with they
  • 00:24:09
    end up with um on Co
  • 00:24:12
    and and those who are
  • 00:24:16
    hospitalized that statistic is way way
  • 00:24:19
    worse it's about 80% now this is from
  • 00:24:21
    memory I hope I got those numbers
  • 00:24:23
    correct but give or take okay but it's
  • 00:24:26
    serious serious numbers
  • 00:24:31
    so the the authors who investigated what
  • 00:24:35
    could be influencing what are the
  • 00:24:36
    factors that are most likely to
  • 00:24:39
    contribute to Long Co they started over
  • 00:24:42
    200 individuals over multiple months for
  • 00:24:46
    a long period of uh of multiple months
  • 00:24:50
    right and they studied their
  • 00:24:53
    their immune markers they looked at
  • 00:24:56
    their blood markers they they look at
  • 00:24:59
    their clinical data and they looked at
  • 00:25:01
    transcriptomics if you're wondering what
  • 00:25:03
    transcriptomics is it's a fancy schy
  • 00:25:05
    word for investigating what kind of
  • 00:25:08
    mrnas your cells produce and basically
  • 00:25:11
    when you look at what kind of mrnas your
  • 00:25:13
    cell produces it gives you a Clues what
  • 00:25:16
    kind of genes a cell is using because
  • 00:25:18
    remember genes are is a storage of
  • 00:25:21
    information inside your nucleus bya DNA
  • 00:25:25
    and then different cells we will use
  • 00:25:27
    different gen gen
  • 00:25:29
    okay and if different cells use
  • 00:25:32
    different genes basically the way you
  • 00:25:33
    can tell which genes are used is by
  • 00:25:35
    looking at the MRNA because if you use a
  • 00:25:38
    gene then basically you transcribe it
  • 00:25:41
    that's the word for it and you produce
  • 00:25:43
    mRNA and then mRNA is is a blueprint
  • 00:25:47
    that a cell that can then be taken out
  • 00:25:49
    of the
  • 00:25:50
    nucleus and basically it's a blueprint
  • 00:25:54
    that is used within the cell to produce
  • 00:25:56
    a specific protein of Interest and
  • 00:25:58
    proteins are like little robots that do
  • 00:26:00
    all the all the work within your cells
  • 00:26:02
    okay so that's basically when you see
  • 00:26:04
    which mrnas are used that gives you a
  • 00:26:06
    clue which genes are used to the looked
  • 00:26:08
    at all of this all of this and what was
  • 00:26:10
    really interesting is
  • 00:26:12
    that what the factors that were most
  • 00:26:15
    likely predictive of who's going to end
  • 00:26:18
    up with long Co was prolonged
  • 00:26:21
    inflammation lasting more than two weeks
  • 00:26:24
    as well
  • 00:26:26
    as let me show you this I don't know you
  • 00:26:30
    can see where I just walked so prolonged
  • 00:26:33
    inflammation as well
  • 00:26:37
    as irregular iron usage so basically
  • 00:26:40
    that it's referred to as a normal
  • 00:26:43
    regular iron usage is called homeo iron
  • 00:26:46
    homeostasis and if you don't if it's not
  • 00:26:48
    working normally then that's dis that
  • 00:26:51
    that's disregulated basically we're
  • 00:26:52
    talking about again iron
  • 00:26:54
    deficiency so prolong iron deficiency
  • 00:26:57
    and prolong h inflammation was the most
  • 00:27:01
    likely predictive factors as to who's
  • 00:27:03
    going to end up with lovid more so than
  • 00:27:06
    the level of inflammation that an
  • 00:27:10
    individual could have experienced so
  • 00:27:12
    it's not how much inflammation the
  • 00:27:13
    person had as much as how long that
  • 00:27:16
    inflammation might have had in
  • 00:27:18
    conjunction with inappropriate use of
  • 00:27:21
    iron so that is why that might help
  • 00:27:24
    explain as to why some of the mild Co
  • 00:27:28
    could still result in Long Co
  • 00:27:32
    okay all right so then uh but there's
  • 00:27:34
    one more interesting element in that
  • 00:27:36
    particular study is that besides low
  • 00:27:39
    iron levels in the blood contributing to
  • 00:27:42
    Long CO as well and the circumstance
  • 00:27:44
    some cells ended up have being loaded
  • 00:27:48
    with iron so they had a lot of iron and
  • 00:27:52
    and remember when you have very high
  • 00:27:53
    levels of iron that basically means that
  • 00:27:56
    um that basically means
  • 00:27:59
    that you could be contributing to this
  • 00:28:01
    reactive oxygen species development and
  • 00:28:03
    the cells that
  • 00:28:05
    were that the authors were mentioning
  • 00:28:08
    that were impacted were monocytes so the
  • 00:28:11
    monocytes and I just recently did a
  • 00:28:14
    video on on how monocytes in could be
  • 00:28:18
    contributing to Long CO as well well
  • 00:28:20
    here's an interesting little Connection
  • 00:28:22
    by iron levels that these uh because I
  • 00:28:24
    talked about how this regular function
  • 00:28:27
    of monocytes
  • 00:28:28
    have been proposed as a potential
  • 00:28:30
    contributing factor to long covid and
  • 00:28:32
    how it could be treated by looking at
  • 00:28:34
    that and here we are these Alors are
  • 00:28:36
    also talking about hey look certain
  • 00:28:39
    monocytes including the ones I discussed
  • 00:28:41
    in that previous video have this
  • 00:28:43
    regulated iron levels they have too much
  • 00:28:45
    iron levels and therefore they could run
  • 00:28:47
    the risk of not being normal anymore
  • 00:28:50
    because of that reactive oxygen species
  • 00:28:52
    development via overloading of iron all
  • 00:28:56
    right so that's another inter connection
  • 00:28:58
    there via the long Co all right so
  • 00:29:03
    that's your long Co connection I'll talk
  • 00:29:05
    about treatment at the very end if I
  • 00:29:08
    don't forget I'm very very prone to
  • 00:29:11
    forgetting in general that's basically
  • 00:29:13
    curse of my
  • 00:29:15
    life and
  • 00:29:18
    um what the authors talked about though
  • 00:29:20
    they were ending this particular
  • 00:29:22
    publication based on symptoms look your
  • 00:29:25
    iron levels can uh are long Co is known
  • 00:29:29
    to have known by fatigue brain fog pain
  • 00:29:33
    in the muscles and and technically this
  • 00:29:37
    is also observed during anemia when you
  • 00:29:40
    have low iron deficiency as well so this
  • 00:29:42
    could help explain explain these
  • 00:29:44
    symptoms for example and lack of oxygen
  • 00:29:47
    delivery as a consequence so for example
  • 00:29:49
    pain muscle pain could be explained by
  • 00:29:51
    the fact that if you don't deliver
  • 00:29:55
    enough oxygen into your muscles it's
  • 00:29:57
    like like heavy heavy workout eventually
  • 00:30:00
    you will start building lactic acid just
  • 00:30:03
    like you would do in a in a workout
  • 00:30:05
    because you run out of oxygen during
  • 00:30:07
    heavy duty workout but here if you don't
  • 00:30:08
    have enough oxygen you could easily end
  • 00:30:11
    up with with with pain in a muscle so
  • 00:30:13
    just like one example and the last thing
  • 00:30:15
    that they brought up is
  • 00:30:17
    also the fact
  • 00:30:19
    that premenopausal women are more likely
  • 00:30:24
    to have long Co and this could be due to
  • 00:30:28
    iron deficiencies so that finally brings
  • 00:30:31
    us to to that
  • 00:30:34
    topic of okay so under what
  • 00:30:37
    circumstances do we see iron
  • 00:30:39
    deficiencies in regular
  • 00:30:42
    population and this is one of the most
  • 00:30:46
    common nutritional deficiency in the
  • 00:30:48
    world iron deficiency and basically
  • 00:30:51
    we're talking about you're not getting
  • 00:30:53
    enough iron from how can you get it
  • 00:30:56
    you're not getting a you're not getting
  • 00:30:58
    iron from your food so that's number one
  • 00:31:00
    right number two is for example
  • 00:31:03
    inflammation so persistent inflammation
  • 00:31:05
    so we discussed
  • 00:31:08
    that and uh so that can be say during
  • 00:31:11
    infection but it could be also during
  • 00:31:13
    other under other circumstances such as
  • 00:31:17
    the um examples that were mentioned is
  • 00:31:18
    Imagine hip fracture or colon cancer
  • 00:31:22
    right so then that that's another of the
  • 00:31:24
    ways you can end up with iron deficiency
  • 00:31:27
    in your blood
  • 00:31:28
    but another one that I will admit I was
  • 00:31:32
    completely unaware of this is
  • 00:31:33
    menstruation now this is not a topic of
  • 00:31:36
    expertise for me I obviously I will
  • 00:31:41
    admit that I'm I am full disclosure I am
  • 00:31:45
    a non-menstruating male for any of those
  • 00:31:49
    of you who might have been confused
  • 00:31:51
    otherwise so uh I don't know much about
  • 00:31:54
    the topic I done made I made some videos
  • 00:31:57
    in how
  • 00:31:58
    the menstration has been affected in
  • 00:32:01
    women
  • 00:32:02
    postvaccination so everything I'm going
  • 00:32:04
    to tell you was totally new for me and I
  • 00:32:09
    wonder how many of you guys who might be
  • 00:32:12
    watching this video would know what is
  • 00:32:13
    even the normal volume blood volume loss
  • 00:32:17
    during
  • 00:32:18
    menstruation I now know and it's 80 Ms
  • 00:32:22
    or less now however that's still a lot
  • 00:32:25
    of blood loss and basically
  • 00:32:29
    when a woman menstruates this volume
  • 00:32:31
    this normal volume that equates to
  • 00:32:33
    roughly 2 milligrams of iron loss per
  • 00:32:37
    day compared to a man or or a non-
  • 00:32:42
    menring woman which would be similar is
  • 00:32:44
    about 1.5 milligrams per day So
  • 00:32:47
    eventually what it means is that a
  • 00:32:50
    menstruating
  • 00:32:51
    woman will lose more iron because of
  • 00:32:54
    that than a man would or a woman who no
  • 00:32:58
    longer menstruates but menstruations can
  • 00:33:01
    also they can vary in in volume and they
  • 00:33:04
    can vary dramatically now what are we
  • 00:33:07
    talking about dramatically we're talking
  • 00:33:09
    about some women can menstruate up to
  • 00:33:11
    400 Mills of blood that's a lot and what
  • 00:33:15
    does that mean when it comes to
  • 00:33:18
    understanding iron loss basically in
  • 00:33:20
    other words this means that such a woman
  • 00:33:24
    when she menstruates this much she could
  • 00:33:26
    be losing up to 200 100 milligrams of
  • 00:33:29
    iron in a month and all right these
  • 00:33:32
    numbers are potentially meaningless to
  • 00:33:34
    you but your average woman has
  • 00:33:38
    approximately 300 milligrams of that
  • 00:33:42
    iron available in the storage so you can
  • 00:33:45
    see that a woman with very heavy
  • 00:33:47
    menstruation could easily deplete
  • 00:33:51
    majority of her available iron and it's
  • 00:33:54
    not that it's easy to necessarily
  • 00:33:57
    replenish
  • 00:33:58
    so by the way what are the symptoms of
  • 00:34:00
    iron deficiency that's also very
  • 00:34:01
    interesting in case because I don't even
  • 00:34:03
    know how many women know this I would
  • 00:34:06
    assume that women would know this but
  • 00:34:08
    you know what I gotta I gotta admit to
  • 00:34:10
    you it's not like I ever have a
  • 00:34:12
    conversation about this uh with my
  • 00:34:15
    female friends so by the way what do you
  • 00:34:17
    do to replenish your iron levels due to
  • 00:34:19
    your menstruation yeah I know it just
  • 00:34:21
    doesn't come up in a conversation so so
  • 00:34:24
    what are the symptoms so the symptoms is
  • 00:34:26
    something like fatigue
  • 00:34:28
    you uh poor performance right overall
  • 00:34:31
    because you just don't have enough you
  • 00:34:33
    don't have enough iron you don't have
  • 00:34:34
    enough
  • 00:34:36
    oxygen and uh and and another one that I
  • 00:34:40
    remember of the top of my head was for
  • 00:34:42
    example hair loss that was interesting
  • 00:34:44
    as well so so there's multiple symptoms
  • 00:34:46
    that and I think also maybe like I hope
  • 00:34:49
    I'm right about this like your hands and
  • 00:34:51
    feet getting cold but either way there's
  • 00:34:53
    like number of symptoms of um when you
  • 00:34:56
    have iron deficiency and how are you
  • 00:34:58
    supposed to then what are you supposed
  • 00:34:59
    to do in order to to help your situation
  • 00:35:02
    well you're supposed to ideally you
  • 00:35:04
    would want to take it have appropriate
  • 00:35:07
    dietary intake of iron but that ain't
  • 00:35:11
    easy and I didn't know this either there
  • 00:35:13
    so look we're all learning here and to
  • 00:35:17
    replenish those two milligrams of iron
  • 00:35:20
    loss that are menstruating woman
  • 00:35:23
    experiences the Alors mentioned you
  • 00:35:25
    would have to eat something like either
  • 00:35:27
    for a single day you would have to eat
  • 00:35:30
    either something like 200 or 300 grams
  • 00:35:34
    of fish meat or eat a kilogram of
  • 00:35:38
    soybeans or eat 5 kilogram of spinach so
  • 00:35:44
    H not necessarily easy so for those who
  • 00:35:47
    might not be able to properly replenish
  • 00:35:49
    the iron levels you can take
  • 00:35:51
    supplements and uh however apparently it
  • 00:35:55
    is not recommended at all to take
  • 00:35:57
    supplements if you don't have symptoms
  • 00:35:59
    if you have a if uh your iron levels are
  • 00:36:02
    low but you don't exhibit symptoms it is
  • 00:36:05
    not apparently recommended to take
  • 00:36:07
    supplements so I just thought I would
  • 00:36:09
    share that what I'm basically studying
  • 00:36:11
    and reading about this okay so
  • 00:36:15
    then this is so interesting where I'm
  • 00:36:17
    walking around it's like B millions of
  • 00:36:19
    tiny little shelves and steps just got
  • 00:36:22
    to make sure I don't fall
  • 00:36:24
    anywhere and this is even further
  • 00:36:27
    exasperated especially if you're a woman
  • 00:36:29
    under additional conditions such as and
  • 00:36:32
    this is um at first I was like oh what
  • 00:36:34
    an interesting fact or this is
  • 00:36:36
    surprising such as number one was if you
  • 00:36:39
    are an athlete and now that I think
  • 00:36:42
    about it okay that makes sense remember
  • 00:36:43
    I made this video on beta glucans
  • 00:36:46
    helping athletes recover their immune
  • 00:36:49
    system so perhaps this basically means
  • 00:36:52
    that your immune system is required for
  • 00:36:56
    your proper respon
  • 00:36:58
    proper
  • 00:37:00
    function or recovery process
  • 00:37:03
    post uh strenuous workouts okay and
  • 00:37:06
    perhaps this could explain why athletic
  • 00:37:10
    women might be an even further
  • 00:37:14
    additional
  • 00:37:15
    additional situation where they might
  • 00:37:18
    consider iron supplementation or or have
  • 00:37:21
    a propriatary appropriate dietary intake
  • 00:37:24
    of that and the other one is vegetarian
  • 00:37:27
    Ian because uh as I just told you a
  • 00:37:31
    moment ago it's not necessarily easy to
  • 00:37:34
    replenish your iron levels
  • 00:37:37
    via VIA vegetarian diet and that's
  • 00:37:42
    another and especially for menstruating
  • 00:37:44
    women so I thought I would share all of
  • 00:37:46
    this with you
  • 00:37:49
    and why is that apart so this can
  • 00:37:52
    obviously explain why women are more
  • 00:37:56
    likely are more frequently observed to
  • 00:37:59
    have long Co and this is potentially
  • 00:38:01
    could be linked to something as simple
  • 00:38:04
    and potentially so easily controlled as
  • 00:38:09
    your iron level regulation all
  • 00:38:13
    right so and that brings me will bring
  • 00:38:16
    me now to the last few aspects of this
  • 00:38:20
    sorry I apologize long video is
  • 00:38:22
    lockdowns vaccines and treatments forong
  • 00:38:26
    Co so uh for
  • 00:38:29
    example I hope you can hear this uh for
  • 00:38:32
    example when it comes to lockdowns there
  • 00:38:34
    was a paper I read that showed how how
  • 00:38:38
    lockdowns resulted in iron deficiency in
  • 00:38:41
    some individuals and the reason why is
  • 00:38:43
    because lockdowns resulted in dramatic
  • 00:38:46
    changes in people's dietary patterns and
  • 00:38:49
    their physical activities
  • 00:38:52
    and the authors of that publication
  • 00:38:54
    mentioned listen we should have never
  • 00:38:56
    have lockdowns with without proper
  • 00:38:58
    education of the public on the
  • 00:39:00
    importance of of proper diet that can
  • 00:39:05
    then properly supplement your iron
  • 00:39:07
    levels because subsequently you could it
  • 00:39:11
    runs the risk of leading to iron
  • 00:39:13
    deficiency so that's one now let's talk
  • 00:39:15
    about vaccines
  • 00:39:17
    so one of the agencies what was it the I
  • 00:39:20
    think it was called the
  • 00:39:23
    European hematology Association
  • 00:39:26
    hematologic Association basically M
  • 00:39:29
    published an expert opinion mentioning
  • 00:39:32
    that anyone who was taking covid-19
  • 00:39:36
    vaccine should have had made sure that
  • 00:39:40
    their iron levels are at appropriate
  • 00:39:42
    normal levels prior to taking the
  • 00:39:44
    vaccine and this actually points out the
  • 00:39:46
    as I mentioned at the beginning of the
  • 00:39:48
    video the standard knowledge Gap when it
  • 00:39:51
    comes to vaccine use and iron levels
  • 00:39:54
    this is something that is missing
  • 00:39:55
    amongst in the Collective knowledge of
  • 00:39:58
    many of our experts and that basically
  • 00:40:02
    in essence your iron levels should be
  • 00:40:05
    made sure to be good and normal anytime
  • 00:40:08
    you vaccinate now there's a lot of
  • 00:40:10
    missing information still
  • 00:40:13
    because the your vaccine efficacy can
  • 00:40:17
    depend on your iron levels but not every
  • 00:40:21
    vaccine is dependent on that so only
  • 00:40:23
    some vaccines will Pro will have their
  • 00:40:27
    efficacy of response affected by your
  • 00:40:29
    iron levels but not necessarily every
  • 00:40:31
    single one and this also might explain
  • 00:40:34
    how why different populations throughout
  • 00:40:37
    the world might have had exhibited
  • 00:40:39
    different efficacy to vaccines and that
  • 00:40:41
    could have been explained simply by how
  • 00:40:44
    what were their iron levels
  • 00:40:47
    okay in in in their blood so something
  • 00:40:50
    as simple as that but another thing we
  • 00:40:52
    still don't know is what is the level of
  • 00:40:55
    iron deficiency required in order for
  • 00:40:57
    the vaccine efficacy to be affected
  • 00:41:00
    which vaccines truly are
  • 00:41:03
    affected and but the authors of that
  • 00:41:06
    publication mention listen we should be
  • 00:41:08
    really really paying attention to this
  • 00:41:10
    because even slightly increasing vaccine
  • 00:41:13
    efficacy for some of the vaccines
  • 00:41:15
    especially especially say say childhood
  • 00:41:18
    vaccines could dramatically influence
  • 00:41:20
    global mortality and uh so that's
  • 00:41:23
    something you well do you remember
  • 00:41:26
    anyone mentioning this uh when Mass
  • 00:41:29
    vaccination was starting cuz I don't may
  • 00:41:31
    maybe there were some clever people
  • 00:41:33
    warning us but I don't remember any any
  • 00:41:37
    of this at all all right and then
  • 00:41:38
    finally what about what about in terms
  • 00:41:42
    of proposed treatments for long Co and
  • 00:41:46
    we're going to wrap it up here and wow I
  • 00:41:48
    made it to yet another bag which is very
  • 00:41:51
    cool and the authors who who basically
  • 00:41:57
    with that paper on long covid and iron
  • 00:42:00
    deficiency proposed couple potential
  • 00:42:02
    treatments so well first of all they
  • 00:42:04
    mention
  • 00:42:05
    look making sure
  • 00:42:08
    that that you don't succumb
  • 00:42:11
    to the severe depletion of your iron
  • 00:42:15
    iron levels due to due to say
  • 00:42:18
    covid-19 or basically your SARS c 2
  • 00:42:21
    Virus Infection could have been easily
  • 00:42:24
    influenced by something like having
  • 00:42:26
    vaccines available okay they were not so
  • 00:42:28
    let's skip that but also proper use of
  • 00:42:31
    something like
  • 00:42:32
    antivirus right and this might explain
  • 00:42:35
    for example why such countries as India
  • 00:42:39
    or Peru and I made a video on this who
  • 00:42:44
    heavily promoted use of certain
  • 00:42:47
    antivirals
  • 00:42:49
    that I will shall not be
  • 00:42:52
    named um might have had such spectacular
  • 00:42:56
    results the reason why is because then
  • 00:43:00
    the individuals who were subsequently
  • 00:43:02
    infected might not have had such severe
  • 00:43:05
    such
  • 00:43:07
    severe iron deficiency loss
  • 00:43:11
    that as without use of those antivirals
  • 00:43:15
    so that's an interesting connection that
  • 00:43:17
    I didn't think about and
  • 00:43:20
    uh but apart from that obviously now
  • 00:43:23
    it's too late like that this is done and
  • 00:43:25
    over with they're talking about like
  • 00:43:27
    what would have been a smart thing to do
  • 00:43:29
    prior to infection now what about those
  • 00:43:32
    who have long Co and they're talking
  • 00:43:34
    about couple things number one is to use
  • 00:43:37
    those heidin Inhibitors so Inhibitors
  • 00:43:40
    that will prevent that will
  • 00:43:43
    prevent that elevated levels of hepsin
  • 00:43:46
    in the blood and remember I I was
  • 00:43:47
    telling you that once you have high
  • 00:43:49
    levels of heidin in your blood this will
  • 00:43:51
    result in uh in basically
  • 00:43:57
    reduce iron levels in your blood right
  • 00:43:59
    so not something we don't want so we
  • 00:44:00
    trying to avoid that so that's number
  • 00:44:02
    one and the other one they mentioned is
  • 00:44:05
    interlan six Inhibitors why that
  • 00:44:09
    specific Inhibitors is because
  • 00:44:10
    apparently elevated interlan six can
  • 00:44:14
    lead to elevated hpin levels as well so
  • 00:44:16
    that those are the potential treatments
  • 00:44:18
    for lung Co that are mentioned here and
  • 00:44:20
    this brings us to the end of this rather
  • 00:44:23
    long video but I you know me i' like to
  • 00:44:26
    wrap up the topics uh in one go and just
  • 00:44:29
    complete them and uh so Hey listen uh if
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  • 00:44:46
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