As the fall “cold, flu, and COVID” season is approaching it is imperative to ensure that you have knowledge and certainty regarding the most evidence-based, most effective approaches to improving baseline immune function, resolving chronic inflammation, improving baseline health – and preventing the incidence of, and serious outcomes from, influenza, influenza-like illness, colds, and COVID.

The data is unequivocal, the most significant variables determining infection, serious outcomes from infection, hospitalization, ICU admission, and death, whether talking about Influenza, Influenza-like illness, or COVID-19, are baseline immune function and baseline health. Nobody can scientifically, logically, or ethically argue the fact that comorbidities such as obesity, diabetes, heart disease, lung disease, and chronic inflammation are far more important determinants of morbidity and mortality than any other variables, including age and infection.

Hundreds of millions, if not billions of people, of all ages, get infected with the EXACT SAME RESPIRATORY VIRUSES in any given year, yet only a tiny percentage have serious outcomes or die. Thus, without any debate, the variables determining morbidity and mortality from infection ARE NOT THE VIRUS or INFECTION STATUS, or AGE, because morbidity and mortality status vary significantly from person to person within similar age groups – in individuals infected with the same virus/variant.

The most significant variables determining whether you or your loved ones get infected, have a serious outcome, or die from respiratory illness, are baseline immune status, baseline inflammatory status, and baseline health/comorbidity status. This is true FOR ALL AGES!

Remember, only a tiny percentage of even those over 80 yrs of age die from seasonal respiratory viruses each year. “It’s NOT the seed, it’s the soil” as the expression goes. This universal truth, though so obvious but so ignored during every respiratory virus season, was never so undeniable as during the years of the COVID-19 pandemic. The scientific, evidence-based, logical, and ethical solution is to target the soil, to target the baseline immune status, inflammatory status, and baseline health/comorbidity status of the population.

David L. Katz MD, MPH May 6, 2022 The Better Pandemic That Might Have Been. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/better-pandemic-might-have-been-david-l-katz-md-mph/

“The underlying cause of the toll of COVID in the U.S. and many other nations was the prior, neglected pandemic of cardiometabolic disease. The cause of all that cardiometabolic mayhem is, in turn, diet and lifestyle at odds with the requirements of human health. A culture designed to feed corporate profits at the expense of public health underlies all of that.”

“The pandemic of lifestyle-related chronic disease was, if not altogether fixable during the compressed timeline of the COVID pandemic, at a minimum, addressable to very good effect.”

“We need not, for example, have waited to weigh the human costs of a diabetes/COVID feedback loop. Tallying years of living lost to a pernicious interaction known from the earliest days of this pandemic is not just senseless- it is scandalous, and tragic.”

“We might, rather, have rapidly expanded access to lifestyle medicine, diabetes prevention and management programming, and for that matter- free fruits and vegetables, nuts and beans, recipes and vouchers, sports and exercise equipment.” 

“Instead, “follow the science” devolved to dogma limited to masks and vaccines, while ignoring the causes of causes, constraining vision to its traditionally myopic span, and seemingly disavowing sense.”

“The COVID disease; the heavy-handed, one-size-fits all COVID “cures”; competing ideologies where epidemiology ought to have prevailed; and the systematic neglect of the underlying causes of the causes of our woe contributed, all, to a massive toll of preventable harm. There is a far better pandemic that might have been. If we learn the lessons of this one, maybe next time it will be.”

Lobestein et al . (2021) COVID-19 and Obesity: The 2021 Atlas: The Cost of not addressing the global obesity crisis. World Obesity Federation www.worldobesity.org

“As we show in this report, increased bodyweight is the second greatest predictor of hospitalisation and a high risk of death for people suffering from COVID-19 [and influenza]. Only old age rates as a higher risk factor.”

*It is extremely important to understand that age itself was not a causal risk factor, well over 95% of the elderly who got COVID-19 survived. Age is a correlative risk factor because the elderly are much more likely to have Vitamin D deficiency, to have chronic inflammation, to exercise less, to have poor nutrition, and, of course, to have comorbidities.

“The unprecedented economic costs of COVID-19 [and influenza] are largely due to the measures taken to avoid the excess hospitalisation and need for treatment of the disease. Reducing one major risk factor, overweight, would have resulted in far less stress on health services and reduced the need to protect those services from being overwhelmed.”

“We show that in those countries where overweight affects only a minority of the adult population, the rates of death from COVID-19 [and influenza] are typically less than one tenth the levels found in countries where overweight affects the majority of adults.”

“We also show that the drivers of overweight – especially high levels of consumption of processed foods – are associated with mortality from COVID-19 [and influenza].”

“Lastly, we show that COVID-19 is not a special case: a number of other respiratory viruses lead to more severe consequences in people living with excess bodyweight, giving good reasons to expect the next pandemic to have similar effects.”

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In this Research Review I am going to provide a summary of the research proving that the Evidence-Based COVID-19 and Flu Prevention and Risk Reduction Protocol I have been advocating since long before the COVID-19 pandemic, that I advocated during the COVID-19 pandemic, and that I continue to advocate long after the COVID-19 pandemic, represents the most evidence-based, most clinically effective clinical protocol for COVID-19, flu, and other respiratory illness prevention and risk reduction.

THIS IS JUST A SAMPLE OF THE COMPLETE MULTIPLE PAGE NEWSLETTER. THERE ARE MANY MANY MORE REFERENCES HIGHLIGHTED! PLEASE CLICK ON THE LINK ABOVE OR BELOW TO DOWNLOAD THE COMPLETE PDF. 

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