what does Altitude sickness and Covid have in common

Covid-19 had us all fooled, but now we might have finally found its secret.

April 5 2020

In the last 3–5 days, a mountain of anecdotal evidence has come out of NYC, Italy, Spain, etc. about COVID-19 and characteristics of patients who get seriously ill. It’s not only piling up but now leading to a general field-level consensus backed up by a few previously little-known studies that we’ve had it all wrong the whole time. Well, a few had some things eerily correct (cough Trump cough), especially with Hydroxychloroquine with Azithromicin, but we’ll get to that in a minute.
There is no ‘pneumonia’ nor ARDS. At least not the ARDS with established treatment protocols and procedures we’re familiar with. Ventilators are not only the wrong solution, but high pressure intubation can actually wind up causing more damage than without, not to mention complications from tracheal scarring and ulcers given the duration of intubation often required… They may still have a use in the immediate future for patients too far to bring back with this newfound knowledge, but moving forward a new treatment protocol needs to be established so we stop treating patients for the wrong disease.

The past 48 hours or so have seen a huge revelation: COVID-19 causes prolonged and progressive hypoxia (starving your body of oxygen) by binding to the heme groups in hemoglobin in your red blood cells. People are simply desaturating (losing o2 in their blood), and that’s what eventually leads to organ failures that kill them, not any form of ARDS or pneumonia. All the damage to the lungs you see in CT scans are from the release of oxidative iron from the hemes, this overwhelms the natural defenses against pulmonary oxidative stress and causes that nice, always-bilateral ground glass opacity in the lungs. Patients returning for re-hospitalization days or weeks after recovery suffering from apparent delayed post-hypoxic leukoencephalopathy strengthen the notion COVID-19 patients are suffering from hypoxia despite no signs of respiratory ‘tire out’ or fatigue.

Here’s the breakdown of the whole process, including some ELI5-level cliff notes. Much has been simplified just to keep it digestible and layman-friendly.

Your red blood cells carry oxygen from your lungs to all your organs and the rest of your body. Red blood cells can do this thanks to hemoglobin, which is a protein consisting of four “hemes”. Hemes have a special kind of iron ion, which is normally quite toxic in its free form, locked away in its center with a porphyrin acting as it’s ‘container’. In this way, the iron ion can be ‘caged’ and carried around safely by the hemoglobin, but used to bind to oxygen when it gets to your lungs.

When the red blood cell gets to the alveoli, or the little sacs in your lungs where all the gas exchange happens, that special little iron ion can flip between FE2+ and FE3+ states with electron exchange and bond to some oxygen, then it goes off on its little merry way to deliver o2 elsewhere.

Here’s where COVID-19 comes in. Its glycoproteins bond to the heme, and in doing so that special and toxic oxidative iron ion is “disassociated” (released). It’s basically let out of the cage and now freely roaming around on its own. This is bad for two reasons:

  1. Without the iron ion, hemoglobin can no longer bind to oxygen. Once all the hemoglobin is impaired, the red blood cell is essentially turned into a Freightliner truck cab with no trailer and no ability to store its cargo… it is useless and just running around with COVID-19 virus attached to its porphyrin. All these useless trucks running around not delivering oxygen is what starts to lead to desaturation, or watching the patient’s spo2 levels drop. It is INCORRECT to assume traditional ARDS and in doing so, you’re treating the WRONG DISEASE. Think of it a lot like carbon monoxide poisoning, in which CO is bound to the hemoglobin, making it unable to carry oxygen. In those cases, ventilators aren’t treating the root cause; the patient’s lungs aren’t ‘tiring out’, they’re pumping just fine. The red blood cells just can’t carry o2, end of story. Only in this case, unlike CO poisoning in which eventually the CO can break off, the affected hemoglobin is permanently stripped of its ability to carry o2 because it has lost its iron ion. The body compensates for this lack of o2 carrying capacity and deliveries by having your kidneys release hormones like erythropoietin, which tell your bone marrow factories to ramp up production on new red blood cells with freshly made and fully functioning hemoglobin. This is the reason you find elevated hemoglobin and decreased blood oxygen saturation as one of the 3 primary indicators of whether the shit is about to hit the fan for a particular patient or not.
  2. That little iron ion, along with millions of its friends released from other hemes, are now floating through your blood freely. As I mentioned before, this type of iron ion is highly reactive and causes oxidative damage. It turns out that this happens to a limited extent naturally in our bodies and we have cleanup & defense mechanisms to keep the balance. The lungs, in particular, have 3 primary defenses to maintain “iron homeostasis”, 2 of which are in the alveoli, those little sacs in your lungs we talked about earlier. The first of the two are little macrophages that roam around and scavenge up any free radicals like this oxidative iron. The second is a lining on the walls (called the epithelial surface) which has a thin layer of fluid packed with high levels of antioxidant molecules… things like abscorbic acid (AKA Vitamin C) among others. Well, this is usually good enough for naturally occurring rogue iron ions but with COVID-19 running rampant your body is now basically like a progressive state letting out all the prisoners out of the prisons… it’s just too much iron and it begins to overwhelm your lungs’ countermeasures, and thus begins the process of pulmonary oxidative stress. This leads to damage and inflammation, which leads to all that nasty stuff and damage you see in CT scans of COVID-19 patient lungs. Ever noticed how it’s always bilateral? (both lungs at the same time) Pneumonia rarely ever does that, but COVID-19 does… EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.

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Once your body is now running out of control, with all your oxygen trucks running around without any freight, and tons of this toxic form of iron floating around in your bloodstream, other defenses kick in. While your lungs are busy with all this oxidative stress they can’t handle, and your organs are being starved of o2 without their constant stream of deliveries from red blood cell’s hemoglobin, and your liver is attempting to do its best to remove the iron and store it in its ‘iron vault’. Only its getting overwhelmed too. It’s starved for oxygen and fighting a losing battle from all your hemoglobin letting its iron free, and starts crying out “help, I’m taking damage!” by releasing an enzyme called alanine aminotransferase (ALT). BOOM, there is your second of 3 primary indicators of whether the shit is about to hit the fan for a particular patient or not.

Eventually, if the patient’s immune system doesn’t fight off the virus in time before their blood oxygen saturation drops too low, ventilator or no ventilator, organs start shutting down. No fuel, no work. The only way to even try to keep them going is max oxygen, even a hyperbaric chamber if one is available on 100% oxygen at multiple atmospheres of pressure, just to give what’s left of their functioning hemoglobin a chance to carry enough o2 to the organs and keep them alive. Yeah we don’t have nearly enough of those chambers, so some fresh red blood cells with normal hemoglobin in the form of a transfusion will have to do.

The core point being, treating patients with the iron ions stripped from their hemoglobin (rendering it abnormally nonfunctional) with ventilator intubation is futile, unless you’re just hoping the patient’s immune system will work its magic in time. The root of the illness needs to be addressed.

Best case scenario? Treatment regimen early, before symptoms progress too far. Hydroxychloroquine (more on that in a minute, I promise) with Azithromicin has shown fantastic, albeit critics keep mentioning ‘anecdotal’ to describe the mountain, promise and I’ll explain why it does so well next. But forget straight-up plasma with antibodies, that might work early but if the patient is too far gone they’ll need more. They’ll need all the blood: antibodies and red blood cells. No help in sending over a detachment of ammunition to a soldier already unconscious and bleeding out on the battlefield, you need to send that ammo along with some hemoglobin-stimulant-magic so that he can wake up and fire those shots at the enemy.

The story with Hydroxychloroquine

All that hilariously misguided and counterproductive criticism the media piled on chloroquine (purely for political reasons) as a viable treatment will now go down as the biggest Fake News blunder to rule them all. The media actively engaged their activism to fight ‘bad orange man’ at the cost of thousands of lives. Shame on them.

How does chloroquine work? Same way as it does for malaria. You see, malaria is this little parasite that enters the red blood cells and starts eating hemoglobin as its food source. The reason chloroquine works for malaria is the same reason it works for COVID-19 — while not fully understood, it is suspected to bind to DNA and interfere with the ability to work magic on hemoglobin. The same mechanism that stops malaria from getting its hands on hemoglobin and gobbling it up seems to do the same to COVID-19 (essentially little snippets of DNA in an envelope) from binding to it. On top of that, Hydroxychloroquine (an advanced descendant of regular old chloroquine) lowers the pH which can interfere with the replication of the virus. Again, while the full details are not known, the entire premise of this potentially ‘game changing’ treatment is to prevent hemoglobin from being interfered with, whether due to malaria or COVID-19.

No longer can the media and armchair pseudo-physicians sit in their little ivory towers, proclaiming “DUR so stoopid, malaria is bacteria, COVID-19 is virus, anti-bacteria drug no work on virus!”. They never got the memo that a drug doesn’t need to directly act on the pathogen to be effective. Sometimes it’s enough just to stop it from doing what it does to hemoglobin, regardless of the means it uses to do so.

Anyway, enough of the rant. What’s the end result here? First, the ventilator emergency needs to be re-examined. If you’re putting a patient on a ventilator because they’re going into a coma and need mechanical breathing to stay alive, okay we get it. Give ’em time for their immune systems to pull through. But if they’re conscious, alert, compliant — keep them on O2. Max it if you have to. If you HAVE to inevitably ventilate, do it at low pressure but max O2. Don’t tear up their lungs with max PEEP, you’re doing more harm to the patient because you’re treating the wrong disease.

Ideally, some form of treatment needs to happen to:

  1. Inhibit viral growth and replication. Here plays CHQ+ZPAK+ZINC or other retroviral therapies being studies. Less virus, less hemoglobin losing its iron, less severity and damage.
  2. Therapies used for anyone with abnormal hemoglobin or malfunctioning red blood cells. Blood transfusions. Whatever, I don’t know the full breadth and scope because I’m not a physician. But think along those lines, and treat the real disease. If you’re thinking about giving them plasma with antibodies, maybe if they’re already in bad shape think again and give them BLOOD with antibodies, or at least blood followed by plasma with antibodies.
  3. Now that we know more about how this virus works and affects our bodies, a whole range of options should open up.
  4. Don’t trust China. China is ASSHOE. (disclaimer: not talking about the people, just talking about the regime). They covered this up and have caused all kinds of death and carnage, both literal and economic. The ripples of this pandemic will be felt for decades.

Fini.

https://archive.is/ONUmi#selection-273.0-381.5

Here is a link to a research paper that fully supports the above claims

https://chemrxiv.org/ndownloader/files/22129965

Very interesting to note, that Samsung’s phones had the ability to monitor o2 saturation via the fingerprint reader, and seemed to be accurate.
This capability was removed by Samsung via a forced update late last summer.

– macds;16892151

Thats essentially what they are now saying covid19 is causing.
The virus somehow boots the iron from the hemeblogin, and it loads up in the organs, thus the multiple organ failures that are being seen.
The big question, and really only 100% therepy is how to we prevent\reverse this from happening.
The hydrochloroquin has been shown to prevent the virus from effecting the hemeglobin, and reversing it in about 66% of cases.
Not 100%
– macds

Then there’s this little n=1 tidbit to support in silico modeling:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…1002/jmv.25839
Shoot 'em up with a hormone producing more red blood cells and the 80 year olds dance out of the hospital:

Does recombinant human Erythropoietin administration in critically ill COVID‐19 patients have miraculous therapeutic effects?

Abstract

An 80‐year‐old man with multiple comorbidities presented to the emergency department with tachypnea, tachycardia, fever and critically low O2 saturation and definitive chest CT scan findings in favor of COVID‐19 and positive PCR results in 48 h. He received antiviral treatment plus recombinant human Erythropoietin(rhEPO) due to his severe anemia. After 7 days of treatment, he was discharged with miraculous improvement in his symptoms and hemoglobin level. We concluded that rhEPO could attenuate respiratory distress syndrome and confront the SARS‐CoV‐2 virus through multiple mechanisms including cytokine modulation, anti‐apoptotic effects, leukocyte release from bone marrow, and iron redistribution away from the intracellular virus.

– Dragunov

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‘Different than anything we’ve seen’: ICU doctors question use of ventilators on some COVID-19 patients

https://nationalpost.com/health/diff…id-19-patients

It started in New York City, in the trenches in the battle against COVID-19. Stressed doctors began worrying that the breathing tubes and pressures being used to open up the tiny air sacs in the lungs of the critically sick could be causing worse harm.

Some are now asking, can we stave off ventilating some patients, and increase the chances of people being discharged from hospital alive?

“In many ways, it’s different than anything we have seen before,” Dr. James Downar, a specialist in critical care and palliative care said Thursday from inside an ICU at The Ottawa Hospital dedicated to critically ill COVID-19 patients. On Thursday, the unit was full.

The pandemic virus seems not only to affect the lungs, making them stiff and inflamed, but other parts of the body as well, including the heart. It’s not clear if it’s a direct effect of the virus on the heart that’s causing heart failure in some cases, or if it’s because the virus is playing with the body’s coagulation system, increasing the risk of blood clots.

It’s different in another way, too: In a phenomenon reported in the U.S., as well as Italy, and, now, Canada, some patients with severe COVID-19 are arriving in hospital with such low blood oxygen levels they should be gasping for breath, unable to speak in full sentences, disoriented and barely conscious.

Except they’re not in any sort of distress, or very little distress, compared to the burden of illness. They’re talking. They’re lucid. It’s not the classic acute respiratory distress syndrome doctors are used to seeing, and that most guidelines recommend doctors treat as such. One Brooklyn critical care doctor has likened it to high altitude sickness and is urging his colleagues to be cautious about who is being ventilated, and how. The concern is that the pressure may be harming lungs, and that some patients could be more safely treated with less invasive means by delivering oxygen through a mask or nasal tube.

“To think that we understand this infection, I think is very naive,” Dr. Ashika Jain, an associate professor in trauma critical care and emergency ultrasound at New York University/Bellevue Hospital Center said on a recent REBEL Cast podcast. “There are so many different theories about how this is behaving. There’s no one cohesive picture. We don’t really understand how to really treat this.” It’s a four-month-old virus that started running before it learned how to walk, she said.

With some Ottawa patients, “we’re giving them all the oxygen we can give them without putting them on a breathing machine, and they’re wide awake and talking,” Downar said. In some situations, people are being flipped onto their stomachs, into the prone position, to improve gas exchanges.

With high-flow nasal oxygen, little plastic tubes are placed in the nostrils, “and those high flows actually generate a little bit of positive pressure within the patient’s upper airway, which helps keep the lungs open and improves the oxygen levels in the blood,” said Dr. Claudio Martin, a critical care physician and medical director of critical care at London Health Sciences Centre and Western University.

However, when giving oxygen with such high flows, “there’s a high possibility the viral particles in the airways are being aerosolized,” increasing the risk of particles spreading in the environment, Martin said. “Which is why if we do use that it has to be in a negative pressure environment, so that you contain the air in the room.” It also means any staff looking after the patient need to be wearing N95 masks.

While the vast majority, some 80 per cent of infections, are mild, the COVID-19 virus can cause pneumonia, which interferes with the ability of oxygen to get in through the lungs, and into the bloodstream. Currently, about six per cent of confirmed cases in Canada have required admission to an ICU.

A ventilator does two things: it provides oxygen as well as pressure to open up the alveoli, the little lung units, to allow the lungs to get oxygen in, and carbon dioxide out. While potentially life saving, it can worsen lung injury.

The strategy, for now, is not to rush to intubate, said Downar, who led the drafting of an Ontario “triage protocol” if hospitals are forced to ration ICU beds and ventilators. “Unless somebody seems to be failing, or their oxygen level is truly at this critical life-changing level, we can maybe hesitate,” Downar said. Even when the decision is made to ventilate, in some cases, “you almost end up having to talk them into it, which is a very unusual situation.”

“But let me be explicitly clear here: These are still the exceptions. The majority are failing … They need to have a tube put down (their throats) and put on a breathing machine to help them breathe.”

It’s not clear what proportion will be discharged alive.

A study published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association involved 1,591 people infected with the pandemic virus admitted to ICUs in the Lombardy region of Italy between Feb. 20 and March 18. A high proportion — 88 per cent — required mechanical ventilation. As of March 25, 26 per cent of the ICU patients had died, 16 per cent had been discharged, and 58 per cent were still in the ICU. The median age was 62; 82 per cent were men.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson remained in an ICU Thursday, where his condition reportedly continues to improve. The 55-year-old is not on a ventilator; according to a spokesman, he’s receiving standard oxygen therapy.

People who have been ventilated have described the experience as awful beyond belief.

The person is sedated, so that they’re calm. “Sometimes you have to relax the breathing muscles so they’re able to open their mouth and accept the tube being inserted,” said Dr. John Granton, head of the division of respirology at Toronto’s University Health Network- Sinai Health System. “If they’re incredibly sick we need to take over their breathing completely, and so we fully sedate them,” meaning a medically induced coma.

“We don’t allow them to wake up from that anaesthetic until their lungs have healed. And then once they’ve healed, or if they’re not that sick, we can allow them to be reasonably aware,” Granton said.

With a tube down their throat, however, they can’t speak. They have to communicate by using a board, or moving their lips. “We’ve become expert lip readers in the intensive care unit,” Granton said.

From the experience with H1N1 and SARS, it can sometimes take several weeks, or a month or more for people to recover to the point they can be “liberated” from the machines. For some with a significant underlying condition, like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, there’s a risk they may never come off.

If nothing else, the pandemic should be encouraging discussions about what people value in life, Granton said, including conversations such as, “If this ever happened to me, this is what I would not want to look like at the end.”

With hospitals in COVID-19 lockdown, families aren’t allowed inside the ICU. Normally, they’re at the bedside. “We’re trying to update them by phone, we’re trying to do Facetime,” Downar said. “To have to see a critically ill family member through a video call and have your questions answered by somebody wearing a face mask … it’s not the way we like to do things. But it’s better than nothing.”

“We’re tired, but this is our job,” Downar said. “People are sending us food. People are honking their horns and putting up signs … It’s really touching.

“We’re going to do our best, and we’re pretty damn good. This is a really strong team. I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else while this is going on than where I am right now.”

(This story has been updated with comments from Dr. Claudio Martin of Western University.)

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A good read, sure hope everyone here takes the time to read it in full. Thanks for posting them

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Has this been validated by multiple medical professionals?

It sounds good but I am no scientist and they have a tendency to sound convincing without really proving anything.

If true then I wonder how this will effect thier approach to dealing with it?

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Great info, Heard that in a Bill Still video from a NYC Dr. at least a week ago, I think I posted it here. It appears they are starting to catch on to this now, you would think information like this would be the lead on every news show… but then that wouldn’t scare people, gotta keep the sheeple scared.

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This is interesting and it actually makes sense why the prime minister of the U.K. was never put on a ventilator and only given drugs.

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You can take all that (good) info, then combine with the resources found here, video included

and really simplify the hell out of it.

Yes, I personally do this, extremely skeptical at first I found this guys phone number and called, he welcomed the call and we had a great conversation, a year or so later I called to see if he was dead yet from it, again, great conversation, this is now part of my home remedy collection and I don’t often share for obvious reasons, but those who care, I vouch for it first hand.

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Sounds crazy to me lol

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Sure does doesn’t it, and dangerous too

Bill had a youtube channel which was where I found it, I had previously studied a hydrogen peroxide theory on curing cancer so it interested me enough to pursue

Very happy I did

There’s a similar but much more powerful and dangerous home remedy I’ve also used

https://mmstestimonials.co/malaria/leaked-proof-the-red-cross-cured-154-malaria-cases-with-mms

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How many times have you had to cure yourself of herpes?

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Why you so curious? Trying to get rid of that “cold sore” on top of your head?

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just the top of his head or did you mean the cold sore on top of his shoulders ?

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You two ladies are hysterical :joy:

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