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Anthony Kaveh MD
@MedicalSecrets · 2:56

How COVID-19 is making my patients healthier

Specifically with regards to the health of the United States, many of you listening will know that our status quo is far from healthier. It's also far from sustainable. With our chronic disease burden consuming 90% of our healthier expenditure. The good news is that this chronic disease burden is also reversible. We estimate over 70%, but how is this related to COVID-19? Well, we are increasingly appreciating the role of chronic disease in increasing the risk of Cob 19 infection severity

#Heartdisease, #covid, #covid19, #coronavirus

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@bowie
Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 0:31

What about immune boosting supplements like Nuun?

This is so interesting to hear. I would love if you would say a bit more about immune boosting supplements. Ever since I was in the service industry, I've been a big fan of those Noon tablets, which help me stay energized and hydrated, and they have an immunity support version, which I use sometimes. So I'm just wondering if I should reconsider my use of those, especially Mid Covenant. So thank you for anything else you have to share
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@Phil
phil spade
@Phil · 1:08

#hrv #HR #measuringhealth

Thanks, Doctor. I had a question here on how your patients and how you would recommend going about measuring health without going in and having a blood panel. How are you measuring health? And I know one way is definitely weight. But also I've been personally experimenting with heart rate variability, waking up in the morning and seeing what my heart rate variability is been toying with, working out hard and then seeing if that changes day to day and it seemingly had some pretty positive effects
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Anthony Kaveh MD
@MedicalSecrets · 0:09
I'll start with Rachel's question first. Can you tell me what the ingredients are in that particular supplement that you're referring to? Thanks
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Anthony Kaveh MD
@MedicalSecrets · 0:35
I didn't hear back in particular about the specific immune boosting ingredients. So I just want to say that the concern is that certain immune boosting supplements can actually worsen Goba 19 through worsening the inflammatory response that leads to what we've now heard of as a cytokines storm. So the immune modulating supplements that can help calm the immune system without preventing it from doing its job or what we're after. But that's not necessarily necessarily what all immune boosters are doing
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Anthony Kaveh MD
@MedicalSecrets · 1:39

@Phil re measuring health

And then that is a very strong, however, indirect measure of their health. So it does center around lab values, fasting blood glucose or a onec, and lipids. And the non invasive measures are going to be the blood pressure, weight, smoking status and then stress management. These are well validated in terms of being healthy in the most meaningful last decades of life
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phil spade
@Phil · 2:18
And I guess I'm looking at variability of the variability. And if that's off, I take that as a sign to say, hey, your body needs rest. Instead of working out. Instead of going on that run, take a brisk walk instead of working out, do yoga, and you think about what is stressing you out. And stress can lead to a lot of stress on your immune system. And I think we're all experiencing a lot more stress these days
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Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 1:43

@DocIntegrative thank you 🔆

Thank you so much for responding to my question. I'm going to do my best to read the ingredients to you because it's pretty small on this little tube that I have with the tablets. But what it says as far as the supplement facts, is there some added sugars, vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin D, vitamin E, calcium, magnesium, zinc, selenium. If I'm saying that right. Chloride, sodium
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Anthony Kaveh MD
@MedicalSecrets · 2:06

@phil biomarkers can be helpful. Function is also a powerful marker.

But health is most powerfully, viewed as the ability for our bodies to help facilitate what we want to get out of life. And when we're young and healthy, obviously, we have tremendous physiologic reserves. So oftentimes our bodies have no trouble keeping up with what we want to get out of them as we get older and we have the need for prescription medications because our bodies cannot do what we want to get out of them, then it's certainly a little bit easier to find intervention points
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@rharris
Ruth Harris
@rharris · 1:00
But one thing that I do that's a little different from other people is I take a cellular activator, one that's been proven to reduce oxidative stress, and then one that improves my mitochondrial function and another one that's an NAD booster. So I'm really excited about the products I take, because not only do they give me so much energy, and they just make me feel better in general. I just feel like helping myself in a very different way is a tool that I'm excited about
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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 0:24

Cellular activator definition?

Could either Ruth or Dr. Kaveh, MD. Both discuss what a cellular activator is. And Ruth, do you have a recommendation of the people you use the product you use just because we're talking here and we're allowed to do that, the products you use that you think is the most digestible and assimilated into the body for that kind of stuff. Thanks
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Anthony Kaveh MD
@MedicalSecrets · 1:19
The concerns around cytokine storms, though, have led me so far to be hesitant in recommending immunosimulatory supplements like Echinacea or elderberry. It's likely going to be safe. But I'm more in the camp of do no harm first. And Secondly, my general approach is when looking at the general lifestyle interventions is to start with a lifestyle which includes a diet, and then the next stage is to look at plant based interventions such as herbs and botanicals
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Ruth Harris
@rharris · 3:51

Cellular activation- ACSinfectiousdiseaseglutathione pubmed.gov (protandim)

But that pathway has enzymes that it up regulates, such as Sod, which the formulator of this blend was a Dupe biochemist, and he actually discovered sod way back 40 years ago, I think or more. But anyhow up regulating something like sod catalase and glutathione are all done, and they're all in research to this product. And what's exciting is with Cobid. I just pulled up a study right here that I saw that I've seen other ones by infectious disease
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Ruth Harris
@rharris · 1:53
Hey, it's Ruth again, just explaining. I wasn't able to put the links to the extent I wanted to. So I just had to do some shortcuts. But just stating the article I was referring to was infectious had infectious disease. And it was titled Endogenous deficiency of Glutathione as the most likely cause of serious manifestations in death in COVID-19 patients
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@Riaz
Riaz S
@Riaz · 1:26
This is some very interesting information. From what I can understand, what you say is ludicrous by itself prevents the adverse events. That's interesting to know because obviously satisfying search has been attributed to majority of the adverse effects of coveted especially in the younger population, meaning younger meaning 30, 40 and 50 year olds as opposed to the older population where I mean a compromise. So I've not read through any of the articles we talked about. I will look into it, but that is interesting stuff
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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:06

@rharris is there enough info out there for your peers to consider this ?

But your coworkers and frontline people all over the world are not doing enough because of the information they might not have or the access they might not have to sell you activation kind of protocols I'm just curious about. You seem so clear about it. You've had time to understand it and you're sort of integrated into your life. Are your peers doing that, or are you alone in this? And would you be like to see more people know about it?
@YkayBeats
Ykay Beats
@YkayBeats · 5:00

So so many questions but no true answers

And what really gets me is that they're calling it a deadly pandemic, a world threat. But then again, how deadly is it when you have no symptoms? How is it that a deadly virus could get you but not show any kind of symptoms? So how deadly is that AIDS is deadly? I mean, it's not the same. It's a sexual tragic disease. But still, when have you ever actually met someone that actually has AIDS?
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Riaz S
@Riaz · 4:59
So obviously, in the bigger cities, you have bigger hospitals and more number of people who are going to be scheduled for more testing just because of that, the only way to figure out if a lot of people is the number of people who are actually dying. And if the death rate is going up or not, and obviously more people who are getting hospitalized, the chance of them being sick for other reasons is also pretty high
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@YkayBeats
Ykay Beats
@YkayBeats · 5:00

People are not well informed.

I mean, we know that the flu kills about 3000 people a year and we never had a quarantine. We never had a shutdown like this when the flu was here, when the Swine flu was here, we never did a quarantine. It might not be as strong, but what troubles me is that there's countries in this world who banned chemicals, but the US does not ban them because they put in their food, they put in your clothes
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Ykay Beats
@YkayBeats · 5:00
So it was just a child that was just being sick. Thank goodness my mom was around. She was there for me. She ended up taking me to the highest paying doctors in Mexico, not Tijuana. It's in Mexico City. And very beautiful building. Everything is just so just awesome. And it's beautiful in there. So they had about eight doctors discussing about what's going on with this kid, meaning me. And, well, my mom was eavesdropping. She was listening
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Ruth Harris
@rharris · 2:48

@DBPardes

But I would say a lot of people are either super skeptical or just willing to throw every other idea. That's not something they've heard of before right out the window. So I guess that's my response. Okay. Have a good day. Yeah
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Anthony Kaveh MD
@MedicalSecrets · 3:32

Asymptomatic infections are common! CO2 is readily exhaled/normalized

So rephrased 40% of spread is from patients or from individuals who don't have symptoms yet, and that's a very high number. The role of masks in helping prevent that spread is becoming more and more well delineated with every study every week that comes out, I'm happy to discuss offline if anyone has questions, and then lastly, with regards to CO2 build up. So carbon dioxide is different from carbon monoxide, which I heard earlier
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Anthony Kaveh MD
@MedicalSecrets · 1:37

Re testing before surgery or in the ER

We can't forget that the number of tests is also very high because any time anybody comes to the emergency room for asthma or not, that comment needs to be put in context. Whenever a patient is coming into a hospital and that they might be admitted, they absolutely need to be tested, so they can be triaged to a room that will protect others from their symptoms, even if they're not in there because of the Covenant infection itself
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@YkayBeats
Ykay Beats
@YkayBeats · 2:56

Simply misinformation

So when they took him to the hospital and they announced that he was dead or whatever one of the doctors was telling the other nurse that they're going to put down, that he died from Kobe. So then the young girl, the granddaughter was like, hey, you know what? He didn't die from Colby. He died from heart attack. And I guess they were like, I'm sorry, but we're going to have to put down that he died from the COVID
@Riaz
Riaz S
@Riaz · 4:35
I really think it is absolutely necessary for every single patient who comes into the hospital irrespective of symptoms to get screened. That is not an issue, and I have no issues with that happening. But the way that same information has been portrayed by the media, like you're having so many more new cases. Now, that is crazy, because these cases are not new. They're already there just because we're testing more, they end up becoming newly diagnosed cases. That's my whole point
@shammi
Shammi Mohamed
@shammi · 4:48

Check your sources.. caution with trying to self diagnose

You can say perhaps it's a political motivation that they are Democrats and all of that, but it still is a little bit of a stretch in my opinion. The second thing I did want to point out is that even putting aside all the partisan wars these days, there's another problem with regards to information at our fingertips. With the advent of websites like WebMD, etcetera. These days, there is so much of medical information that is readily available to the common man and woman
@Riaz
Riaz S
@Riaz · 5:00

COVID related death or not?

So, for example, if the patient gets admitted for a particular ailment or illness, let's say a person who gets admitted for a diagnosis of asthma will get the hospital will get paid one particular amount, and that's all they will get the same way. If the patient gets admitted for a heart attack, the hospital get one particular amount and that's all they'll get, no matter how much expenditure goes into it. Similarly, from what I'm hearing through the grape wine
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Anthony Kaveh MD
@MedicalSecrets · 3:21

ID associations -> find causation -> provide therapeutic options

Now we study this more and we see a greater linkage, and that leaves us more along the lines of a causative relationship. And when we have causation, then that informs our treatment. So when we see people have clots in their lungs, in their hearts, in their brains, and then we start providing, for example, blood thinners to help address that, and that represents progress if done correctly with the appropriate studies
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