I follow loads of low-carb advocates, carnivore diet people on Twitter. I'm waiting to see if any of them is hospitalized with COVID. No one yet.
Why are diabetics & people with hypertension in the same risk category for succumbing to a respiratory disease like COVID as lung disease patients? Partially because SARS-CoV-2 isn't a respiratory virus; it can attack the heart & digestive systems, too. https://khn.org/news/mysterious-heart-damage-not-just-lung-troubles-befalling-covid-19-patients/ …pic.twitter.com/txPX9j40RM
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And/or because they’re both corelated with obesity. Obesity is throughline on top 4 comorbidities. It could even be literally the weight of the fat on your chest.
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Which means two things to me. 1) trump country is gonna get it bad. 2) it adds another layer of irony that the people I personally know most scared of Corona are seeming the least susceptible—young urban women. You’ll be fine, Brie. You’ll probably kill me, actually.
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Any virus makes it difficult to manage blood sugar levels for Type 1 diabetics. Likely the same for Type 2. And there are reports hi blood pressure meds may boost ACE2 receptors increasing virus entry into the heart & lungs.
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This is bad. However, ppl w/ diabetes also have severe problems with the basement membrane in their lungs. That probably leads to more diabetics dying from SARS-CoV-2 than cardiac issues.
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Cardiac and respiratory damage can result just from ventilator use. In its "push" mode, a ventilator creates a negative pressure that damages alveoli: long part of the cost/benefit trade. That it stresses the heart or is associated with encephalopathy should not be surprising.
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Hey! You can’t talk about these things. This is fat shaming and fit shaming. Trying to tell me that having a healthier body would have protected me from this any virus, show me the proof
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That's why I'm into the low-carb angle; plenty of people look "healthy", but due to carb consumption, only 12% are *metabolically* healthy. Plenty of "healthy" COVID casualties with undiagnosed prediabetes. Let's see if anyone who is religiously low carb gets hospitalized.
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