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0:00 Speaker 1 With us today is doctor Peter Milos. He’s our historian, our in house genius and medical affairs, and one smart guy and one good friend, doctor Mihlos. All of a sudden, all the news channels are saying, COVID is coming back.

0:18 How can the American people, how can we protect ourselves? And what are we supposed to do?

0:26 Speaker 2 Well? Every year we have the flu, and we haven’t gotten rid of the flu for as long as mankind is around. Because what happens is initially, viruses that are new breakout, and that’s what’s called a pandemic. And those viruses initially can be very, very deadly, like the nineteen seventeen eighteen flu, or nineteen sixty eight sixty nine Hong

0:48 Kong flu, or what we just saw in COVID in December twenty nineteen. But what we also learned from history that viruses will continue to mutate, So we keep hearing about all these different variants. And as these viruses mutate, they learn that they can’t keep killing their human hosts, so fortunately for us, that they become less deadly and

1:11 less debilitating. But what happens is that they learn to also become more contagious because they need to jump from host to host to continue to survive. But what’s interesting about this particular virus is some of the side effects.

1:27 And usually you catch a cold and it goes away, but we’re seeing that a large percentage of people are developing something called long haul COVID, and recently some of the publications have shown that this virus is very interesting on how it likes to attack nerves. For example, the smelling nerve called the olfactory nerve. It goes right up

1:47 into the nose to try to hide in immune privileged areas where they hide from the immune system like the brain and the smelling nervous system. That’s why people are losing sense of smell with COVID. But it’s also now been found that it affects something called the vagus nerve and the nerve that controls our breathing and sends reflexes

2:08 and signals to our heart. So now it’s starting to explain why some of these people with won whole covid a having an elevated speed speed speeding up a heart rate called tachycardia, and they’re also having weird sudden drops in blood pressure that may also be caused by the changes in speed of the heart because our heart muscle

2:29 is our pump that feeds our brain. And it also may explain why people are having periods of fatigue and being tired and also getting misdiagnosed with other diseases like myalgias and other fatigue syndromes. But what’s happening is that we need to do things and find out more about what we can do to prevent getting COVID and also

2:53 to minimize the effects of COVID. We talked about recently on the cats Around table let. A large study of patient looking at their charts who are on a common diabetes drug called met form and made from French lilacs, turns out that those people get forty percent less COVID.

3:09 We find out that people whose vitamin D levels are between fifty and seventy five, we’re less likely to be affected by severe COVID. We found out that the common drug diabetes, the people who were on it, even the diabetics, were less likely to end up in the ICU. We find out that our body mass index or our weight

3:31 and size, effects us, so we need to be motivated to try to stay as thin as possible and as we always talk.

3:38 Speaker 1 So we are getting smarter and our doctors are getting smarter how to treat COVID so we don’t die from.

3:44 Speaker 2 It right, And we also have anti virals, just like with the flu. We have tammy flu. You take it the first three days, and we also have an option from Mark the malipi and from Pfeizer the packs of it.

3:58 Anything you take, whether it’s vaccine a pill, and there’s always going to be some side effects, but at least now we have a treatment. Just like with HIV and AIDS forty years later, there’s no vaccine, but there is a cocktail where they give you two or three different anti virals and basically you attack the virus at multiple

4:15 replication points and that will stop and control the AIDS virus. That’s why we’re not seeing all those depths that we were seeing years ago with HIV, so we’ve learned how to control it. But again we tell our listeners that as the winter comes on, we know that the virus spreads more in dry air. In humid air, it seems

4:37 to get wet and like falls to the floor, so it doesn’t travel as much. So as people are starting to crowd indoors, we’d tell people to be more cautious and if you have it, you know, find out if you have it in isolate and don’t go to your job, or you know, to household members, especially to the elderly,

4:54 which are high risk of being severely affected, and just try to stay away from them. But thank god, you have treatments now. Yes, hospitalizations are up, but I think we’re much better equipped. And we’ve learned that our supply chain is national security, and hospitals are much better prepared with medications now and treatments. Early on, it was scary

5:13 when we saw all these body bags and refrigerators in hospitals because there was no real.

5:19 Speaker 1 Treatment understood anything else. Who want to want to tell the American people we have another minute left?

5:28 Speaker 2 Yeah, just to reiterate what we talked about that the new depression pill for postpartum depression. Half a million women in the United States are affected. One in seven women. People end up killing themselves and dying. And now there’s a pill. You take it once a day for fourteen days and people respond dramatically within three days. And that’s

5:47 going to help save a lot of women and probably a lot of their husbands too, from the stress of a severe depression after delivering babies. So exciting news on the medical front, thanks to capitalism in the United States and people investing in research and development, and while the rest of the world waits to follow what we’re doing.

6:09 So it’s a great time to be an American scientist. And the American scientists came through and got us through many things, and we’ll continue to see great advances in healthcare in this great country.

6:22 Speaker 1 Doctor Peter Mehlos, thank you for bringing us up to date, and God bless you and enjoy the rest of the weekend, and let’s keep on the American people healthy. Thank you so much.

6:33 Speaker 2 Thank you John, thanks for always getting the truth out on the CATS Roundtable.