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This common drug might save people with COVID-19
BGR ^ | 15 Jan 2021 | Yoni Heisler

Posted on 01/16/2021 7:10:30 PM PST by blueplum

A new research study finds that the drug Fenofibrate — which is used to help keep cholesterol levels low — can potentially help treat patients suffering from the coronavirus. The study, which was recently highlighted by Knowridge, relays that the coronavirus typically impacts the body’s ability to burn carbohydrates. This, in turn, causes “large amounts of fat to accumulate inside lung cells, a condition the virus needs in order to reproduce.”...

...One of the study’s authors, Professor Yaakov Nahmias, adds:

We showed that the human lungs responded to the SARS-CoV-2 virus by completely changing their metabolism, causing a major buildup of fats in lung cells. Our findings show that this unhealthy fat buildup is a critical factor in COVID-19 patient’s deterioration....

(Excerpt) Read more at bgr.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: ccpvirus; covid; tricor; viralpathology
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To: blueplum

I avoid the “health care system” and it’s affirmative action bureaucrats at all costs. I am doing just fine without them. Their only function is to turn all citizens into revenue streams for their “As Seen on TV” prescription pharmaceuticals. Once the get you on one they have you on fifty in no time.


41 posted on 01/16/2021 9:53:52 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (You are in far more danger from an authoritarian government than you are from a seasonal virus.)
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To: FreedomPoster

ivermectin seems NOT ONLY good against covid but head lice, worms and maybe even dengue


42 posted on 01/16/2021 9:56:54 PM PST by rolling_stone (usa nice experiment ruined by "progressives'" )
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To: blueplum

I just spoke with someone yesterday whose neighbors got it last week. They live on a ranch, and their animals’ vet gave them Ivermectin. Within 1day, they felt almost 200% better.

GoodRx is part of the establishment, take what they say with a grain of salt.


43 posted on 01/16/2021 10:08:19 PM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, “The Weapon Shops of Isher”)
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To: blueplum

They won’t know if it saves anyone or not. With a fatality rate of 0.04% it will be hard to say if it made any difference at all. It would have been better em8 months ago. Now that Trump is gone all sorts of things we didn’t know will become crystal clear.


44 posted on 01/16/2021 10:13:10 PM PST by webheart (COVID was not worth the economic misery that it took to keep me from getting it for 7 months..)
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To: FreedomPoster

Thanks for posting the studies/articles. I was looking for some bedtime reading that wasn’t political

Just scanning the stats, I’m not seeing where India is much better at treating covid with ivermectin than the US who is not using it, tho - 1.44 mortality versus 1.66, and perhaps higher than 1.44 given that some deaths in India aren’t recorded, whereas every death in the US is recorded. I still want to strongly discourage those who think they can run down to the local feed store and buy some horse wormer to add to their peanut butter sandwich.


45 posted on 01/16/2021 10:14:53 PM PST by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: webheart

fatality of 0.04?

Why would the results not be measurable, if the target subset is diabetics on oral meds (and possibly those with other metabolic disorders)? Surely discovering that the lungs not only fill with fluid but lipid is significant.


46 posted on 01/16/2021 10:30:01 PM PST by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: blueplum

BLASPHEMY!!! One does not question the Knower of all Knowledge God King Emperor Faucy.


47 posted on 01/17/2021 1:57:02 AM PST by Organic Panic (Flinging poo is not a valid argument)
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To: blueplum

Rxplains the obesity connection.
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48 posted on 01/17/2021 2:10:38 AM PST by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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To: BipolarBob

Hell to the thief.


49 posted on 01/17/2021 2:12:07 AM PST by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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To: blueplum

It strikes me as yet another drug, like HCQ, that ought to be OTC. Is in many countries.

Look at the curves, not just the numbers, for India. We wish ours looked like that.

They feed that stuff to million dollar race horses.


50 posted on 01/17/2021 2:53:46 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Sasparilla

I had the virus right after Thanksgiving. My wife (who also tested positive) and I doubled down on B3, zinc, vitamin C and Melatonin. I attribute the fact that we both recovered in three or four days to those vitamins.


51 posted on 01/17/2021 4:10:24 AM PST by Russ (I )
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To: FreedomPoster

Bookmark


52 posted on 01/17/2021 4:56:30 AM PST by BozoTexino (RIP GOP)
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To: blueplum

Considering what’s now known about anti-cholesterol drugs, anyone going on this drug regarding the virus would be a TOTAL IDIOT.

p.s., I have no problem with Ivermectin (probably the best drug for prevention and early treatment) or HCQ (better than nothing, but not nearly as good as Ivermectin).


53 posted on 01/17/2021 5:23:17 AM PST by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Only if you have or don’t have them with coffee and bacon.


54 posted on 01/17/2021 5:31:20 AM PST by mad_as_he$$
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To: blueplum

Kind of hard to believe they’ve been killing people with overdoses of Ivermectin and still touting it as a potential prophylaxis. Also hard to believe they’ve been posting positive results with severely small and ineffective doses..


55 posted on 01/17/2021 6:01:36 AM PST by trebb (Fight like your life and future depends on it - because they do.)
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To: steve86

12 mg
Oral


56 posted on 01/17/2021 6:19:18 AM PST by gas_dr (Trial lawyers AND POLITICIANS are Endangering Every Patient in America: INCLUDING THEIR LIBERTIES)
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To: trebb

Do you have a citation to prove this. No answer is an answer.


57 posted on 01/17/2021 7:18:35 AM PST by TAP ONLINE ( Democrats are Scorpions, you get the ride you deserve )
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To: blueplum

$14 via GoodRX. Looks very promising. Few side effects. Therefore, down the memory hole quick!!!


58 posted on 01/17/2021 8:41:14 AM PST by Basket_of_Deplorables (Convention Of States is our only hope now!)
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To: TAP ONLINE

Did you see the post I was responding to so you could decide if I was claiming it happened or if I was just making fun of the person I was responding to?

Same deal - no answer serves as an answer.


59 posted on 01/17/2021 9:54:28 AM PST by trebb (Fight like your life and future depends on it - because they do.)
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To: trebb

You are correct . My error. Sorry


60 posted on 01/17/2021 1:44:07 PM PST by TAP ONLINE ( Democrats are Scorpions, you get the ride you deserve )
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