Coronavirus Update with Dr. Neal Barnard: Diets To Projections
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 6 October 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Neal Barnard reexamines COVID-19 after the virus was thrust back into the spotlight once news broke that the president had tested positive. He explores why people with obesity are far more likely to become severely ill if infected.
Dr. Barnard also shares how fat cells essentially roll out the welcome mat for the virus to rapidly multiply inside the body when he joins "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll on The Exam Room™. More importantly, they present ways you can begin to lose weight and improve your health at this critical time and into the future.
Dr. Barnard also explores other aspects of the virus, including the latest research on how it is spread, the efficiency of masks, and forecasts for whether or not scientists are expecting a surge of new infections during the fall and winter months.
Plus, Dr. Barnard answers your questions as Chuck opens the Doctor's Mailbag!
- How can alcohol impact the risk of COVID-19?
- How long can coronavirus particles remain in the air?
- Why is someone with diabetes at such a higher risk for COVID-19?
- Can a person become reinfected?
- How will shutting down live animal markets prevent another pandemic?
- Plus, many more!
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| 0:00.0 | What's it going to do to them? |
| 0:01.0 | The answer is it depends on your health. |
| 0:03.8 | If you got more body fat, you are at much greater risk. |
| 0:07.6 | In a French study, they notice that people who have a body mass index in the healthy brain |
| 0:13.0 | not very likely to have severe illness. |
| 0:15.1 | People who had a body mass index in the really high range, seven times more likely to end |
| 0:19.1 | upon a ventilator. |
| 0:20.1 | Well, hello there and welcome to the Exam Room Podcast brought to you by the Physicians |
| 0:33.5 | Committee. |
| 0:34.5 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll. |
| 0:37.3 | Thank you so very much for giving the show a listen, or a view, or a download, wherever |
| 0:43.0 | it is in the world that you are. |
| 0:45.5 | We appreciate the fact that you are here. |
| 0:51.2 | COVID-19 is firmly once again in the spotlight after President Donald Trump and many others |
| 0:57.5 | inside the White House tested positive for the virus. |
| 1:02.7 | So on the show today, we will be hitting the reset button on COVID-19. |
| 1:09.6 | What we know, who was most at risk? |
| 1:13.1 | That can be done to lower the chances of becoming severely infected to that end. |
| 1:19.3 | What is the connection then with your diet? |
| 1:23.3 | And we'll also hear where we are right now in the pandemic. |
| 1:27.3 | And also where experts believe we will head in the coming months to help us bring everything |
| 1:34.3 | back into focus today. |
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