Anomalies of COVID through a lens of zinc depletion
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From an experience I had a few years ago with a few proliferating stubborn warts on the bottom of my foot, I stumbled across some research on the role of zinc in fighting certain viruses. For five months I had suffered, whether missing, or suffering on, my daily long walks to and from train stations. The recommendation of the doctor wasn’t clearing it up. But after 7 days of rubbing a paste composed of a crushed up zinc tablet on my foot, it was half gone, and all better in 2 weeks.
The weirdness of COVID is that it hits some people so hard and seems to do nothing to others. I ask myself is there a correlation with people who have a depletion of zinc and people hit by COVID very hard?
Young people Vs Old people? Yes.
People NOT on ACE inhibitors Vs those who are? Yes.
Marathon runners — while super fit, some were hit surprisingly hard. Search for marathon runner and coronavirus and you’ll find quite a few. After the first such cases reported, I assumed it was the heavy breathing around others in the race. But don’t their marathons also deplete them of zinc? Perhaps.
Smokers Vs non-smokers? Probably. Believe it or not, smokers are much less likely to get COVID or to end up hospitalized for COVID. And smoking has actually been associated with higher levels of serum zinc (in some but not all studies).
This article in the Guardian describes how there are “large numbers of very big fused cells” in the lungs of people who have had COVID.
“There are large numbers of very big fused cells which are virus positive with as many as 10, 15 nuclei,” he said. “I am convinced this explains the unique pathology of Covid-19. This is not a disease caused by a virus which kills cells, which had profound implications for therapy.”
Does zinc have an affect on cell division? Yes. Zinc depletion doubled the amount of DNA per cell in this [link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/803510/ |NIH study] as it interferes with cell division. “Cell division ceases on depletion of zinc from the medium. There are 20-fold less cells in (Zn minus) medium than in control cultures.”
I’m not recommending anything here except to eat a healthy balanced diet. And whatever you do, don’t take an excess of any mineral that dislodges other essential minerals (without specific doctor’s advice), because upsetting the delicate balance of calcium, zinc, and potassium can affect basic cell processes, brain chemistry, and electrical signals in the heart.
I do wish modern medicine had more thoroughly studied — and had better measurements of — the levels of minerals in the body. I do wish the serum levels of all patients were tested and analyzed with big data and AI, to zero in on patterns of diseases.
Just food for thought.
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Thank you, OP, for sharing.
Thanks for posting, lost - HEY, if nothing else, zinc sure did a job on your dadgum foot warts, eh?? (it’s sooooo great when a suggested treatment actually WORKS, ain’t it??!) 
