Black Plague Pandemic New Discovery

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Dr. Eric Berg

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🗓️ 30 May 2020

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Today we’re going to talk about the Black Plague pandemic. This pandemic roughly occurred around 1348. There were between 70-200 million people that died during that pandemic.

A discovery was made by digging up and examining the skeletons from an unmarked grave in northern London. They found that a good number of these skeletons had:

• Rickets (rickets is a severe vitamin D deficiency)

• Bad teeth (bad teeth can be due to a vitamin D deficiency)

• Anemia

• Injuries (potentially from a war)

So there was a combination of malnutrition and a war that could create a perfect storm for a weakened immune system.

A vitamin D deficiency can create:

• Susceptibility to infection

• A low number of white blood cells

• Weak white blood cells

• Less control of inflammation

There was also a pandemic that occurred in 1918 called the Spanish Flu, in which about 50-100 million people died. Both of these pandemics peaked in the winter, which is also the time of year when people typically get the least amount of vitamin D.

There was also a war going on at the time or near the time of both of these pandemics. This could have caused a drop in nutritional levels because people started eating differently. There weren’t a lot of fresh, nutrient-dense foods available, especially for soldiers.

With COVID-19, the people who are dying are older, and people with a weakened immune system. Supporting a healthy immune system is crucial.

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0:00.0	So if you guys have any questions whatsoever about keto or in a minute fasting,
0:04.4	whether you're starting keto as a new person or just need to debug your program or we have a question about a product.
0:10.5	Call one of our keto consultants. They'll be able to help you. Call 5405.7.
0:29.0	Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Kito and Interminute fasting podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. So today we're going to talk about the Black Plague and the somewhat recent
0:49.2	discovery about the true nature of this pandemic, which is actually quite interesting because it relates to nutrition.
0:58.0	So this pandemic roughly occurred in the year 1348. Now don't quote me. It's right around this period of time. It could happen a little bit before or a little bit after.
1:09.0	But there are between 70 to 200 million people who died in that pandemic and the discovery that they made
1:17.2	was in an unmarked grave in the north part of London where they dug up these skeletons and they studied these skeletons and they found a good handful of these skeletons had rickets.
1:32.0	I don't know if you know much about rickets but all you need to know is that
1:36.1	is a vitamin D deficiency. They also found they had very bad teeth which is also a vitamin D deficiency.
1:45.1	They found they were anemic based on the bone composition.
1:49.6	They also found a lot of injuries as if these people were in a war.
1:54.3	Right around that time there was a war.
1:56.5	In fact, there was a war for a hundred years.
2:00.0	So you have the combination of malnutrition and a war.
2:05.0	That would create a perfect storm for a weakened immune system.
2:09.0	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
2:15.1	vitamin D deficiency because Rickets is a severe vitamin D deficiency. You can
2:20.9	imagine if you're that low in vitamin D you're not going to have a good immune system at all because the
2:26.1	Vitamin D deficiency will create a susceptibility to infection.
2:31.3	It also will lower the number of white blood cells. That's your army that fights off the infection.
2:37.0	Also, it creates a weakness within the strength of your white blood cells.
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