How Coronavirus Targets Your Lungs
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 24 April 2020
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Today we’re going to talk about the relationship between the coronavirus and your lungs.
The word “corona” comes from the word “crown.” The coronavirus has small projections that look like a little crown—the little projections like lung tissue.
In certain cases, especially critical coronavirus cases, a person can develop a condition called ARDS (acute respiratory distress syndrome). This is a situation where you have severe hypoxia, which means you have a lack of oxygen.
Other symptoms are:
• Rapid breathing
• Dizziness
• Breathlessness
• Sweating
What’s missing with COVID-19 is two nutrients:
1. Vitamin D
2. Zinc
90% of patients with ARDS have very low vitamin D levels.
• Vitamin D is an immune modulator
• It can help greatly improve the immune system
• It’s a great anti-inflammatory
Zinc is one of the most important nutrients for your lungs.
• It can help reduce inflammation
• If you’re deficient in zinc, an infection can last longer
• If you’re deficient in zinc, you’re more susceptible to infections, viruses, and bacteria
• If you’re deficient in zinc, you don’t have the full capacity of your white blood cells (your army)
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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. Today we're going to talk about the relationship between coronavirus and your lungs. |
| 0:49.0 | So the word Corona comes from a crown because the coronavirus has these little projections that look like a little crown and these little projections have affinity for. So in certain cases, especially if you're critical or it's very, very severe, |
| 1:09.2 | there's a high rate of the person getting a condition called ARDS. |
| 1:13.0 | Acute respiratory distress syndrome. |
| 1:17.0 | In this situation, you have severe hypoxia. |
| 1:20.0 | That means you have a lack of oxygen. |
| 1:24.0 | Other symptoms, rapid breathing, dizziness, breathlessness, |
| 1:28.0 | sweating. |
| 1:29.0 | And here's what's happening. |
| 1:31.0 | At the very end of your bronchial tree you have these little |
| 1:35.2 | air sacks. They're called a violi alive and they're just these little empty sacks |
| 1:40.1 | okay that have a very thin wall and they butt up against these tiny capillaries. |
| 1:48.0 | So what's happening is we have the oxygen coming in and it can very easily diffuse through this one cell layer wall on both sides goes into the |
| 1:57.1 | red blood cells. |
| 1:58.1 | So now the blood cells can be oxygenated and you can make hemoglobin and that's carried through the entire body. |
| 2:04.5 | You also have the exchange of CO2 that comes the other way so you can exhale the CO2 out and |
| 2:10.6 | breathe in the O2. |
| 2:11.6 | So you have this exchange of oxygen. But this virus having |
| 2:15.6 | affinity for the lung tissue starts to create damage around the lining through here and on the capillaries on the other side. |
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