'Statin Drugs Laid the Groundwork for COVID-19' - Dr Colleen Huber
"My hypothesis is that the massive, population-wide lowering of cholesterol among the American public leading up to 2019 set the stage for vulnerability to the novel pathogen SARS‑CoV‑2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
Statin drugs lower a person’s cholesterol, and cholesterol is not a luxury but rather a necessity for forming the vitamin D molecule—the conductor of the symphony, so to speak, of the human immune system.
Three organs are involved in your vitamin D production: first, the skin, then the liver, and finally, the kidneys. This is to take vitamin D to where it’s fully activated for its role as the executive director of all of a person’s immune function, as in the diagram below.
Vitamin D is the gateway nutrient to the proper functioning of the rest of the immune system, and was especially crucial in battling COVID-19, as I showed in over 130 study references to vitamin D’s role against COVID-19 and other infectious illnesses—in both treatment and prevention—in my 2021 book, “The Defeat of COVID.” Both those with higher blood lab values of vitamin D and those who supplemented vitamin D vanquished COVID-19 much more readily—with respect to lower hospitalization and lower deaths—than those who avoided vitamin D or who were deficient in it. Hundreds of studies and meta-analyses have shown this to be the case: Vitamin D preemptively defeats COVID-19 and other respiratory and viral illnesses—especially when dosed, or produced in the skin from sunlight, early and regularly.
What Does Cholesterol Do?
Cholesterol is essential to every cell in the body. The liver makes it when we don’t get enough from food; the liver makes about 75 percent to 80 percent of our cholesterol, with the other 20 percent coming from food, which is one indication of how badly we need it.
The cholesterol carried by the LDL cholesterol (so-called “bad cholesterol”) is particularly valuable because it is the major vehicle by which cholesterol is carried to the cells. When cholesterol arrives there, it forms an essential component of cell membranes. For humans as well as other mammals—including those mammals who live on fries and chips, as well as those foraging in nature—cholesterol is such an important fat in mammalian cell membranes that it makes up about 30 percent of the lipid bilayer.
Cholesterol is what keeps our cell membranes supple and strong while enabling the essential signaling transduction that life requires. Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging has shown that cholesterol is required for the essential flow of signaling proteins. Without signaling among our cells, the body would have no means to sustain life; conversely, one definition of death might be the end of cooperative interaction and signaling among the cells of the body.
The neurons are cells that are even more dependent on cholesterol than most, and cholesterol is abundant throughout the central nervous system. When cholesterol is lowered, damage to cognition and memory has been seen to follow—in mice as well as in humans. Observations of Framingham Heart Study participants showed “a significant positive linear association between [total cholesterol] and measures of verbal fluency, attention/concentration, abstract reasoning and a composite score measuring multiple cognitive domains.” Do you suppose your older relatives would have appreciated learning about that finding before taking such a drug?"
https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/statin-drugs-laid-the-groundwork-for-covid-19-post-5639933
📱 ROBINMG
"My hypothesis is that the massive, population-wide lowering of cholesterol among the American public leading up to 2019 set the stage for vulnerability to the novel pathogen SARS‑CoV‑2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
Statin drugs lower a person’s cholesterol, and cholesterol is not a luxury but rather a necessity for forming the vitamin D molecule—the conductor of the symphony, so to speak, of the human immune system.
Three organs are involved in your vitamin D production: first, the skin, then the liver, and finally, the kidneys. This is to take vitamin D to where it’s fully activated for its role as the executive director of all of a person’s immune function, as in the diagram below.
Vitamin D is the gateway nutrient to the proper functioning of the rest of the immune system, and was especially crucial in battling COVID-19, as I showed in over 130 study references to vitamin D’s role against COVID-19 and other infectious illnesses—in both treatment and prevention—in my 2021 book, “The Defeat of COVID.” Both those with higher blood lab values of vitamin D and those who supplemented vitamin D vanquished COVID-19 much more readily—with respect to lower hospitalization and lower deaths—than those who avoided vitamin D or who were deficient in it. Hundreds of studies and meta-analyses have shown this to be the case: Vitamin D preemptively defeats COVID-19 and other respiratory and viral illnesses—especially when dosed, or produced in the skin from sunlight, early and regularly.
What Does Cholesterol Do?
Cholesterol is essential to every cell in the body. The liver makes it when we don’t get enough from food; the liver makes about 75 percent to 80 percent of our cholesterol, with the other 20 percent coming from food, which is one indication of how badly we need it.
The cholesterol carried by the LDL cholesterol (so-called “bad cholesterol”) is particularly valuable because it is the major vehicle by which cholesterol is carried to the cells. When cholesterol arrives there, it forms an essential component of cell membranes. For humans as well as other mammals—including those mammals who live on fries and chips, as well as those foraging in nature—cholesterol is such an important fat in mammalian cell membranes that it makes up about 30 percent of the lipid bilayer.
Cholesterol is what keeps our cell membranes supple and strong while enabling the essential signaling transduction that life requires. Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging has shown that cholesterol is required for the essential flow of signaling proteins. Without signaling among our cells, the body would have no means to sustain life; conversely, one definition of death might be the end of cooperative interaction and signaling among the cells of the body.
The neurons are cells that are even more dependent on cholesterol than most, and cholesterol is abundant throughout the central nervous system. When cholesterol is lowered, damage to cognition and memory has been seen to follow—in mice as well as in humans. Observations of Framingham Heart Study participants showed “a significant positive linear association between [total cholesterol] and measures of verbal fluency, attention/concentration, abstract reasoning and a composite score measuring multiple cognitive domains.” Do you suppose your older relatives would have appreciated learning about that finding before taking such a drug?"
https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/statin-drugs-laid-the-groundwork-for-covid-19-post-5639933
📱 ROBINMG