I've seen that post before. All conditions listed are part of the same condition resulting from insulin resistance. The is referred to as metabolic syndrome.
Metabolic syndrome, also known as syndrome X or dysmetabolic syndrome, refers to a cluster of metabolic conditions that can lead to heart disease.
The main features of metabolic syndrome include insulin resistance, hypertension (high blood pressure), abnormal cholesterol, and an increased risk for clotting. People diagnosed with this syndrome are usually overweight or obese.
Metabolic Syndrome
Intercellular zinc deficiency is a common feature of Type 2 Diabetes (advanced metabolic syndrome).
Zinc and diabetes mellitus: understanding molecular mechanisms and clinical implications
Glycated hemoglobin and changes in normal ferritin blood levels is a common feature of Type 2 and Metabolic Syndrome:
A STUDY ON RELATION BETWEEN SERUM FERRITIN AND GLYCATED HEMOGLOBIN IN TYPE 2 DIABETES MELLITUS
Almost half of Americans of all ages are unhealthy. It is not because they don't follow dietary device, it is because they do follow it. It is not because they don't "move more." It is because they can't outrun a bad diet.
Metabolic Syndrome is easily reversed with reduction in processed food and seed oils, low carbohydrate intake and time restricted eating to allow the human body to recycle damaged organelles via
Autophagy. Patients after weight loss will tend to move more. Trying to convince them that exercise will cure them or they are not doing it enough is sadistic.
Metabolic Syndrome increases with age, however BMI is not as good of a predictor as Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR). Main elderly fall in the low to healthy BMI ranges, however suffer from insulin resistance. I've posted a few times now that they are Thin Outside, Fat Inside (TOFI).
The virus infections seem to show the same pattern. Attacking the old with great lethality first, while infecting the younger later with grave illnesses requiring hospital support.
Hypertension, diabetes, and hyperlipidemia are part of the same phenomena. HbA1c should be the first line test after viral infection to understand the patients disease course and medical treatment.
If almost half the population suffer this disorder, the disease can not be allowed to burn it's way across the population.
I am rapidly finding out more information about what might be involved in the deadly aspects of Covid-19 illness. I have known for a week about Dr. Zelinsky’s concern to use zinc supplements along with Hydrochloroquine and Azithromycin. The article below that was recently posted as an FR thread goes into important detail regarding deadly Covid. It destroys the capacity of red blood cells to carry oxygen to all our cells by messing with the iron in red blood cells. The article also mentions the lungs’ 3 primary defenses to maintain “iron homeostasis.” It explains the lung lining (skin) has a thin layer of fluid packed with high levels of antioxidant molecules. One of those is Vitamin C. Thus it makes sense that both maintaining high levels (2 to 4 grams a day) before illness strikes, and then increasing to very high levels after illness strikes is a logical conclusion.
http://web.archive.org/web/20200405061401/https://medium.com/@agaiziunas/covid-19-had-us-all-fooled-but-now-we-might-have-finally-found-its-secret-91182386efcb [Article already posted at FR]
[How to increase Vitamin C to very high therapeutic levels and monitor the treatment] http://www.doctoryourself.com/titration.html