Coronavirus Destroys Sense of Smell: Why?

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

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🗓️ 22 April 2020

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Today we're going to talk about why the coronavirus causes the loss of smell.

Some coronavirus symptoms:

• Fever

• Tired

• Cough (dry)

• Shortness of breath

• Sore throat

Recently it has been found that there can be an additional symptom, and it's the loss of smell. The medical name for a loss of smell is "anosmia." You can also have a loss of taste.

What might cause this to happen?

There is a certain enzyme that's involved in your perception of smell and taste. It's called carbonic anhydrase 6. This essential enzyme for the sense of taste and smell is zinc-dependent. Big symptoms of a zinc deficiency are actually a loss of the sense of smell and a loss of the sense of taste.

I think the reason for the symptom of a loss of smell could be a zinc deficiency. When you go through an infection, especially in your lungs, you use up a lot of zinc. Zinc is not stored that well in the body. So, unless your constantly consuming zinc, chances are you're going to be zinc deficiency. On top of that, with an infection, you could be even more zinc deficient.

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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 I want to chat about something very interesting about the coronavirus.
0:48.0	Typically the symptoms and there's actually quite a lot of different symptoms but mainly you get fever you're
0:55.1	tired a dry cough shortness of breath sore throat your lungs start to become inflamed
1:01.6	and there's a series of symptoms but recently there's been an observation
1:07.8	that there's an additional symptom okay and it's a loss of smell. The medical name for loss of smell is anosmia, okay?
1:18.3	You can also get a loss of taste where everything just tastes like cardboard.
1:23.7	That has been recently found to be a common symptom of the coronavirus.
1:28.7	So the question is why and I have some ideas.
1:32.1	The first thing I'm going to tell you is that there's a certain enzyme
1:36.1	that's involved in your perception of smell and taste. And this is the name of the enzyme,
1:43.4	carbonic anhydrase six,
1:46.7	and this essential enzyme for taste and smell
1:50.4	is zinc dependent.
1:53.0	Now I'm not sure that you know this,
1:55.0	but one big symptom of a zinc deficiency
1:58.0	is a loss of smell and a loss of taste.
2:01.0	You could even go online and order a zinc test, which basically you take a little
2:06.2	zinc and you put it in your mouth and if you cannot taste anything, you're zinc deficient because
2:12.3	usually zinc tastes very metallic.
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