- Only a very low percentage of people who are exposed to Coronavirus get sick and die.
- But the virus is transmitted very easily.
- Because it is transmitted so easily, large numbers of people get sick and die. And many people get moderately sick but become debilitated by “post-COVID syndrome” which we don’t really understand.
The Mainstream Gov’t and Media Approach To COVID in Broken:
They are basically saying “Lockdown, mask, and social distance and wait for a vaccine”. That’s a very limited and narrow response. And it’s purely theoretical. They’re putting all their money in an investment with a very uncertain return. And Your physical, social, economic, and mental health are being put at risk.
In contrast, there are things you can do to protect yourself. We’re talking about making minimal investments in sensible things with scientific support, which are likely to help you and the people you love.
What’s Stupid About “Lockdown/Mask/Distance/Vaccine”?
- We don’t have a proven vaccine yet. Pfizer COVID vaccine had a dubiously high success rate in preliminary data. Moderna also has made progress. But we don’t know the real outcomes of those vaccines in broad delivery. And broad vaccine delivery is very difficult. The Pfizer vaccine, for instance, needs to stay frozen. No so easy to transport that to millions of people.
- There has never been a successful coronavirus vaccine.
- Lockdowns are creating unprecedented economic, social, and mental health problems that will cripple the world for decades.
- They’re not teaching you things you can do for yourself to enhance your health and make infection/illness less likely.
- If you’re isolated, inactive, stressed, depressed, and eating junk, you’re more likely to get sick.
- Most of the vaccine trials are exploring new technology that has never been used successfully and safely in a vaccine.
- So basically, the mainstream approach is generating massive destruction, hoping to be saved by a vaccine that doesn’t exist yet, while neglecting to teach you how to make yourself more resilient, and less likely to get sick.
This is not meant to imply that the social distancing or other government measures are wrong. I’m suggesting that they’re not enough. There are other things you can do to protect yourself.
Hmm, so what’s a person to do?
Here’s What You Can Accomplish With Minimal Expense:
There is a ton that you can do. Abundant research over decades has shown us that simple lifestyle measures can:
- Reduce tendency to catch viral infections
- Reduce tendency toward overactive inflammation.
- Speed recovery from illness.
- Possibly reduce the likelihood of infecting someone else
- Enhance well being and mental health
- Reduce likelihood of development and progression of many chronic illnesses
- Enhance your quality of life.
What Are Lifestyle Measures and How Do I Get Started?
Your health is the outcome of a highly refined self-healing system that has been with you all your life. The healing intelligence in your mind-body system is only beginning to be understood. It is way beyond what science has come up with. But science has been looking at the outcomes of three kinds of self-care and finding that these kinds of self-care can enhance your health in ways quite relevant to this pandemic. I suggest thinking about three aspects of your complex mind-body unity:
1.Mindset and Mind-Body
There are simple ways that you can learn to:
- Reduce stress
- Put yourself in control of your life
- Have positive thoughts
- Relate constructively to difficult emotions
- Heal traumas
Clinical research for decades has shown that Mind-Body states like enhanced sense of control, decreased stress, positive mood, and happiness can:
- enhance your immune function
- reduce inflammation
- improve sleep
- reduce suffering from pain
- improve digestion.
2.Metabolic/Biochemical
There are simple things you can learn to do with diet and supplementation that enhance general health and resistance to viral infection. For instance:
- Vitamin D, Zinc are known to
- Prevent viruses to get into your nasal passages and lungs
- Help your body clear viruses
- Preserve the integrity of the mucus layer that protects you from infection
- Reduce viral reproduction
- Reduces overactive immune responses that make people super sick in COVID disease
- Decrease duration of some viral infections in clinical settings.
- The Standard Western Diet of saturated fat, sugars, and refined carbs is TOXIC.
- It activates the part of the immune system that can cause chronic inflammation.
- Impairs the body’s response to infections
- Leads to obesity, heart disease, and other conditions that make corona worse.
- There is an intelligent way to eat that can enhance a variety of health measures, including immune function.
3.Movement
You were made to move. Movement might be the best medicine ever invented. Regular moderately-intense exercise has been shown to:
- Increase immune system detection and response to infections
- Reduce stress and enhance mood, energy, and well-being
- Reduce immune overactivity that can lead to severe disease
- Reduce the loss of immune function that is otherwise proven to exist in people with obesity, diabetes, and the elderly—exactly the groups who are at greater risk from covid.
- Reduce upper respiratory infection, which is how COVID starts.
- Less incidence, less intense symptoms, shorter recovery, less likely to infect other people.
This video is an overview and big picture. I will dive into these other issues in future posts. I’m here to help you build your health and stay well.
I encourage you to work with the recommendations of the public health and government authorities.
But to also empower yourself to be well, to be resilient, to keep yourself and your family from getting sick.
Please comment and let me know your thoughts and questions!
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