A Startling Revelation To Counter Covid

The Nutrients That Can Deter Covid

I was watching some videos about the Spanish flu of 1919, in which it was mentioned that the virus in the third wave was highly transmissive but not lethal. Also, the third wave was the last wave of the Spanish Flu pandemic.

Now, the Omicron being highly transmissible, I thought it may be the last wave. After reading some articles, I developed a notion that we may be in the endemic phase of this mind-boggling pandemic.

However, I forgot to make some accurate comparisons with the Spanish flu before arriving at this conclusion.

One of them is the vaccine. There was no vaccine during those days of Spanish flu. Since the third wave of Spanish flu was less lethal, it could be safely concluded that the virulence of the virus had decreased.

However, in the current pandemic, we have all gained immunity due to the vaccine. It may be because of that, the omicron strain seems less severe.

Some cases of hospitalization have been reported for the people infected with Omicron. But their numbers are less as compared to the Delta variant. However, within a few weeks, the real picture of its severity will be clear.

So, any conclusions on its virulence are too early to determine because the vaccine is influencing the severity of this strain whereas there was no vaccine in the case of Spanish flu. So, it’s still not clear if Omicron highly lethal or not.

That’s the biggest difference between the current wave of the Covid pandemic and the third wave of the Spanish flu!

In addition, there are possibilities of new Covid variants in the near future.

All these make me less hopeful about getting liberated from this pandemic.

However, there is a positive development that makes me hopeful that we can fight it.

Some studies have shown that nutrition plays an important role in fighting the virus. Among them, vitamin D, magnesium, and zinc are the important ones. These have been found to enhance our immunity in warding off the virus at an early stage of infection in a recent study.

During a covid infection, the death of a patient occurs generally due to a cytokine storm. Here, the immune system becomes overresponsive to attack the cells and organs of our own body.

In this study, it was shown that vitamin D has been found to play a pivotal role in obstructing the cytokine storm.

In another study, it was reported that the patients suffering from Covid-19 were having a deficiency of vitamin D. In this research, 50 Covid hospitalized patients were checked for vitamin B1, B6, B12, vitamin D, folate, selenium, and zinc in their bodies.

It was found that 76% of the patients were deficient in vitamin D deficient and 42% were deficient in selenium. There was no deficiency in other vitamins and minerals in the patients.

So, all these make me believe that vitamin D is quite essential for fighting covid. In addition, magnesium and zinc are also essential. Because magnesium aids in the synthesis of vitamin D. Furthermore, zinc has been reported to possess antiviral properties as well as boost the immune system.

Therefore, a combination of these nutrients appears quite promising in countering Covid. Currently, discussions are ongoing to use these nutrients as a treatment procedure to reduce mortality due to Covid.

In the end, I just wish some sort of divine blessing is bestowed upon mankind to develop natural immunity against the virus over the long term. That will put an end to this ongoing virus forever.

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