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....
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BFLR
No problem - I have often had my feet in my mouth.
The reason I worded like I did was because the fool claimed that they had to use doses “100X the lethal dose” to have an effect - yet we know they’ve been studies showing good effects.
When folks like that spout off, I often can’t help swatting at them with their own kind of rhetoric and it’s easy to misinterpret my meaning if you “come in the side door” of the conversation.
Happy FReeping.
“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.”
Ive been taking these preemtively for a
while. Along with Famotadine & anthistamine Fexofinadine.
So far, so good.
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