Combining Research and Education
Earlier version: Chelation of copper may be treatment to reduce hyperglycemia. By reducing oxidative stress, a mild amount of copper chelation could improve COVID-19 outcomes.
Read MoreHaving studied zinc as a result of a copper exposure and the resultant fibromyalgia when combined with a proton pump inhibitor, it seems amazing to me that this is surprising. But when you've been head first ankle-deep in zinc and copper for over a year, coronavirus has results begin to make more sense.
Read MoreThe traditional diet in hospitals may not be the best for Coronavirus. Likewise, suggestions for home diet could be given, with always the caveat that it should be integrated into the diets of patients where it does not contradict the way those patients already need to eat. These are tweaks, improvements, they do not supersede what the patient already is aware they must do or must avoid.
Read MoreUndermethylators' bodies react slower to their internal and external environment. This includes changes in zinc levels being absorbed. They require sustained release zinc and meat, even with some fat in it to act as a brake to slow and sustain absorption, or when levels drop before their next dose, their immune systems will falter, a gap of function of which coronavirus will take relentless advantage. (Citations still being added.) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Undermethylators' bodies react slower to their internal and external environment. This includes changes in zinc levels being absorbed. They require sustained release zinc and meat, even with some fat in it to act as a brake to slow and sustain absorption, or when levels drop before their next dose, their immune systems will falter, a gap of function of which coronavirus will take relentless advantage. (Citations still being added.)
Read MoreExcess clotting causes strokes and deaths in covid-19. Deficits in magnesium and zinc increase clotting, magnesium and zinc being common nutritional deficiencies both from medications and genetic factors, and addressing this could save lives.
Read MoreUsing studied techniques, cytokines could be lessened: increase D and the obiquious zinc, and reduce copper intake to stop rewarding the body for creating histamines.
Read MoreMedication-induced zinc deficiencies and depletions of other nutrients used by the immune system are risk factors for people who contract Coronavirus. More medical and pharmacist references, from 2005 to 2017. If these had started being addressed when they were published, how many less would have died?
Read MoreSome genetic and epigenetic nutrient excesses and deficiencies lead to combinations of medical, mental and mood disorders which, treated separately rather than at the hidden root cause, lead to taking medications multiple medications for linked conditions. Although medications have benefits, they can cause further nutrient depletions, leading sufferers on a new cycle of a nutrient-induced merry-go-round of bad health. There are alternate strategies, supporting medications to remove or reduce negative side effects, and to attack a variety of illnesses at their mutual source.
Read MoreTo paraphrase U.S. Pharmacist, there are drug-induced nutrient depletions which are well known to pharmacists, but are generally not discussed with patients, and thus undiagnosed and untreated. The resulting nutritional deficiencies usually weaken the body and make it less able to protect itself from Coronavirus. This is one reason why a higher percentage of the elderly and those with chronic illnesdes are dying. One nutritional deficiency, in moderation, actually strengthens the immune system. By carefully fixing the former and judiciously using the latter, we can save lives. © Deborah Barges, July 2020, reprintable and usable per open access rules.
Read MoreUndermethylation makes it harder for the body to change which genes to use to function correctly in a changing environment. If any type of treatment - physical, nutritional or psychological - is slower in effecting change, testing and treating undermethylation might cause benefits across the board for people with this condition.
Read MoreIncreasing a depleted nutrient can improve other conditions unexpectedly; medications for these conditions can become too strong, causing the opposite but equally dangerous condition. Nutrients required to put the nail sufficient nutrient into place can suddenly be depleted, causing new or worsening conditions. Medical monitoring during added nutrition can be critically important, more so for worse or long-term conditions where the body has adapted and will need to adapt back to a healthier function. If there is no shortage, there is likely to be no benefit. Likewise, where there is a benefit, there is likely an undiagnosed deficiency or insufficiency.
Read MoreIncreasing a depleted nutrient can improve other conditions unexpectedly; medications for these conditions can become too strong, causing the opposite but equally dangerous condition. Nutrients required to put the nail sufficient nutrient into place can suddenly be depleted, causing new or worsening conditions. Medical monitoring during added nutrition can be critically important, more so for worse or long-term conditions where the body has adapted and will need to adapt back to a healthier function. If there is no shortage, there is likely to be no benefit. Likewise, where there is a benefit, there is likely an undiagnosed deficiency or insufficiency.
Read MoreMedication depletions can be similar to having to feed a workman who you hire to move in to work on your house. Do you starve the cat, or does everyone go on short rations? Different bodies react in different ways.
Read MoreWhile poor nutrition, from depleted soil causing reduced nutrients in foods, poor diet, and poverty's lack of choices are real issues, poor absorption and genetic conditions, some only recently becoming recognized, are issues which are treatable or improvable.
Read MoreZinc plays many roles in the body and the brain. Deficiency causes deaths from Coronavirus. Insufficiency may not show on lab tests, as the body adapts, a physical coping mechanism, to keep the blood level optimum for functioning, unaware that there is a doctor who needs the lab tests to be low to be able to treat the body. Symptoms of zinc insufficiency may be helpful to know how to treat certain people at more risk from coronavirus at this time, but low zinc by reducing glutathione also causes mental illness. Natural conditions such as Pyrrole syndrome and copper overload also reduce zinc levels.
Read MoreTwenty years of research has not awakened most of the psychiatric community to the benefits of magnesium supplementation for a significant number of people with depression and neuroses. Undiagnosed deficiencies and sometimes undiagnosable insufficiencies by standard testing (when the body has created a coping mechanism which leaves the levels correct in the serum) cause some depression, through shorting magnesium from neurotransmitters such as glutathione. If there is no shortage, there is likely to be no benefit.
Read MoreWhile there is a medical billing code for this medically induced deficiency, patients are not being counseled to take supplements to avoid going deficient, including a medication for mental illness that is thus causing mental illness.
Read MoreIron deficiency leads to memory, learning, motor skills, emotions and mental behavioral issues.
Read MoreDeficiencies from illnesses as well as medications can be misdiagnosed as mental illness, leading to perscriptions causing even more deficiencies. The elderly are commonly deficient of B12. Not only do medications cause this deficiency, but so does a common pathogen, helicopter pylori, often not diagnosed unless it causes an ulcer - and due to poor quality patient preparation, and tests that have full snakedos of which the doctors are not aware, often not even then. Implicated in mental illness, how often do prescriptions and undiagnosed h. pylori cause or exacerbate dementia and mental illness? Lyme disease and pernicious and difficult to diagnose or eradicate illnesses have been implicated in resources not listed here yet.
Read MoreIntentional antifolates treat diseases. Incidental antifolates can cause diseases, including mental illness, because patients often aren't told to supplement B9 even when put on multiple incidental antifolate medications simultaneously. Certain variations of the MTHFR gene can cause malfunctions in folate metabolism which either cause or simulate deficiency, as well, which has been found to impact mental health, especially since the general treatment is to give folic acid, a synthetic form of vitamin B9, which causes people with the MTHFR Gene polymorphisms to have health issues up to and including schizophrenia as a result. Unmodified folic acid in the blood can block absorption of dietary folate, and result in the same forms of cancer that are more common with a folate deficiency.
Read MoreFor at least 20 years, studies have shown that various B vitamin deficiencies have an impact on mental health, and that supplentation can benefit sufferers. While standard lab tests do not always reveal these deficiencies, there are tests available which can. Some deficiencies are natural, but deficiencies induced by medications.
Read MoreUndermethylation makes it harder for the body to change which genes to use to function correctly in a changing environment. If any type of treatment - physical, nutritional or psychological - is slower in effecting change, testing and treating undermethylation might cause benefits across the board for people with this condition.
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A new proposal for treating patients for whom traditional treatment has proven unsuccessful, by adjusting current medication protocols.
Read MoreWhat is known, debated and some postulation.
Anemia and iron deficiency can happen as a result of illness. The link between zinc, required by the immune system to fight pathogens and iron is copper. While low copper can cause iron deficiency by reducing the amount of the iron transport chemicals, excess copper also causes iron deficiency. Postulating that possibly too many transport chemicals are created, moving the iron too rapidly and possibly to rapidly out of the body. Likewise it could be damaged transport chemicals. Joint pain can be Iron linked into the synovial fluid in certain arthritis. Could that be related?
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Read MoreRecent studies, and studies as far back as the 1970s, show that nutrient lab test do not necessarily show high or low results, despite which they are still primary way of testing for nutrients. Why, when, and what can be done about it?
Read MoreExcesses of iron do not show correctly in most lab tests, as proven in a study in 1978. Nevertheless, serum lab tests are still the standard of care.
Read MoreMagnesium deficiency can present as symptoms in a variety of specialties, so that doctors are unable to pinpoint the cause except by consulting each other, assuming the patient has discussed the other symptoms with other doctors, or by relying on lab test, which unfortunately do not always tell the truth.
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