Q&A #10 with Dr. Rhonda Patrick (4/4/2020)

Posted on April 4th 2020 (almost 5 years)
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Dr. Rhonda Patrick answers audience questions on various health, nutrition, and science topics in this Q&A session.

  • The mechanism of SARS-CoV-2 infection and pathology. 1

  • How coronaviruses infect immune cells and initially inhibit interferon and activation of the innate immune pathway. 1 , 2 , 3

  • Some descriptions of SARS-CoV2 symptoms in adults vs children. 1 , 2

  • What is a cytokine storm and how initial activation of the innate immune system may help prevent it.

  • Some published data on genetic susceptibilities to sepsis and cytokine storms. 1 , 2

  • Vitamin D normalizes the renin-angiotensin-system system and could be protective of COVID-19. 

  • SARS-CoV-1 infection has been shown to downregulate cellular ACE2 expression levels and this may be involved in disease severity. 1

  • How loss of ACE2 function has been shown to exacerbate acute lung injury and inflammation in lungs. 1

  • Vitamin D halved the risk of acute respiratory infection in people with the lowest baseline vitamin D levels and reduced by 10% in people with adequate vitamin D. 1

  • Vitamin D reduced lung injury in mice by actually increasing ACE2 receptor levels in infected mice. The infected mice experienced a decrease in ACE2R and this exacerbated lung injury but vitamin D normalized this. Vitamin D did not increase ACE2 levels above what was found in normal non-infected mice. 1

  • Vitamin C is critical to the immune system and could possibly be protective during the SARS-CoV2 pandemic.

  • Vitamin C deficient mice were more likely to die from the flu. 1

  • Dosing vitamin D supplementation.

  • Intravenous vitamin C is currently being trialed for treatment for COVID-19 around the world.

  • What I personally do to boost my immune system during this pandemic.

  • Thiamine supplementation for protection from SARS-CoV2 via riboswitches.

  • High vitamin C supplementation is associated with a theoretical small increased risk of kidney stones. 1 , 2

  • Supplementation I give to my toddler.

  • Do non-caloric artificial sweeteners negatively impact the microbiome?

  • Monitoring sleep duration and quality for improving health

  • How sauna use plays a role in boosting the immune system via heat shock proteins.

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