Posted on 08/27/2021 7:01:31 AM PDT by ConservativeMind
An enzyme with an elusive role in severe inflammation may be a key mechanism driving COVID-19 severity and could provide a new therapeutic target to reduce COVID-19 mortality, according to a study published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
sPLA2-IIA, which has similarities to an active enzyme in rattlesnake venom, is found in low concentrations in healthy individuals and has long been known to play a critical role in defense against bacterial infections, destroying microbial cell membranes.
When the activated enzyme circulates at high levels, it has the capacity to "shred" the membranes of vital organs, said Floyd (Ski) Chilton.
"In this study, we were able to identify patterns of metabolites that were present in individuals who succumbed to the disease," said lead study author Justin Snider, an assistant research professor in the UArizona Department of Nutrition. "The metabolites that surfaced revealed cell energy dysfunction and high levels of the sPLA2-IIA enzyme. The former was expected but not the latter."
Using the same machine learning methods, the researchers developed a decision tree to predict COVID-19 mortality. Most healthy individuals have circulating levels of the sPLA2-IIA enzyme hovering around half a nanogram per milliliter. According to the study, COVID-19 was lethal in 63% of patients who had severe COVID-19 and levels of sPLA2-IIA equal to or greater than 10 nanograms per milliliter.
"Many patients who died from COVID-19 had some of the highest levels of this enzyme that have ever been reported," said Chilton, who has been studying the enzyme for over three decades.
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This is the study that found the substance:
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/bpb/31/4/31_4_714/_article
This expensive item on Amazon has the substance:
https://www.amazon.com/Fucoidan-YOHO-MEKABU-FUCOIDAN/dp/B00DB7CP1Q
Bkmrk
“the sporophyll (Mekabu) of brown seaweed Undaria pinnatifida (wakame)”
Apply the Blood to your doorposts and this angel of death will pass you by.
Yes, it’s very expensive. But at least it is sourced/manufactured in Japan so you can be sure of its quality unlike much of the crap that comes from China and India.
Isn’t sPLA2-IIA found in much higher concentrations in the clinically obese...?
Bite a rattle snake
Iota-carrageenan from red seaweed inhibits SARS-CoV-2 in laboratory conditions
Dr. Tomislav Meštrović, MD, Ph.D.
Jul 29 2020In a recent bioRxiv paper, a research group from the Marinomed Biotech biopharmaceutical company in Austria showed that a sulfated polysaccharide iota-carrageenan has the propensity to inhibit cell entry of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) by using an in vitro neutralization assay.
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Bkmk
how about rattlesnake anti-venom?
Yes, I’ve made four nasal spray bottle of that for myself and my wife.
Ivermectin and HCQ and Zinc!
Don;t give the enzyme long enough to build up/
Didn't find anything searching for maslinic acid, but found triterpene in several products on Amazon. Looks like Goto Kola extracts and Reishi Mushroom extracts, may be the strongest.
No clue how much to take.
I'm guessing you would only take this once diagnosed or sick.
Book Mark
“For example, the former Soviet Union experimented with the instillation of the gene responsible for the production of cobra toxin into normally harmless bacteria that reside in the intestinal tract.”
Thanks for finding this!
There’s rattlers in the talus below the nearby cliffs. I’m gonna go get me bit.
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