from Dr. Richard Horowitz
Many individuals have speculated on how and why COVID-19 arose, causing such widespread suffering. A report released by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) last month makes the case for focusing on the causes of pandemics instead of just treating the diseases as they emerge.
"Three-quarters of emerging illnesses come from animals and a new report identifies climate change as a primary driver of many of them....insects are exquisitely sensitive to environmental changes," said Akselrod, pointing out that Lyme disease is another zoonosis that shows signs of a climate change-driven spread. As the world warms, ticks have moved northward from New England into Canada".
"Climate change can have other impacts on zoonotic disease transmission, Randolph said. It "makes people more vulnerable, and more vulnerable people are poorer and less able to seek and pay for health care and to take good good care of themselves and their children...history clearly shows this trend...the people who don't have access to resources to control their surroundings and their own lives have been on the deep end of every epidemic through the ages," she said."
If we are to protect ourselves and our loved ones from future pandemics, we must focus on the causes. The increase in Lyme disease and TBD's have been proven to be related to changes in our climate. That was the basis of Mary Beth Pfeiffer's book "Lyme: The First Epidemic of Climate Change". If new viruses emerge in the future (and they will) we must also focus on the biology/biochemistry of how viruses affect the body.
We can not shut down economies and
funnel billions of dollars into vaccine development each time a new
virus appears. Viruses like COVID enter the body through ACE2 receptors
and turn on the viral machinery through oxidative stress. The
nutritional supplements like NAC and glutathione discussed in my two
publications have disulfide bonds that may help slow viral entry into
the cells and help suppress oxidative stress and cytokine formation,
shutting down the virus (based on prior published scientific research).
Here are a few resources:
1. Evidence for antiviral activity of
glutathione: in vitro inhibition of herpes simplex virus type 1
replication. Palamara AT, et al.
Antiviral Res. 1995 Jun;27(3):237-53
2. Antiviral and immunomodulatory properties of new pro-glutathione (GSH) molecules. Fraternale A, et al. Curr Med Chem 2006
3. GSH and analogs in antiviral therapy. Fraternale A, et al.
Mol Aspects Med. 2009 Feb-Apr;30(1-2):99-110. doi: 10.1016/j.mam.2008.09.001. Epub 2008 Sep 27
Wouldn't it make more sense to look at the biology of viruses and find common denominators to shut them down? Doesn't it make sense to get to the causes of how these epidemics and pandemics arise?
