Repeatedly we are told by public health officials that we need to use all the tools available to fight the pandemic, with all the emphasis from public policy focusing on vaccines, masks, and social distancing measures. However, a close inspection of the data reveals there are several considerations we are leaving out of the conversation:
- We have had generic drugs since the start of the pandemic that could have been used to treat the virus, some of which we knew of early on that you can read more about here.
- The demonstrated links between Vitamin D/severe coronavirus, and obesity/severe coronavirus.
- Having pre-existing underlying chronic disease (90% of which can be attributed to environmental and lifestyle factors) makes it much more likely you suffer from severe coronavirus.
- Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs) increase your chances of severe coronavirus.
For now, let’s take a look at how food choices impacted the pandemic.
According to the CDC, we know that over 94% of people hospitalized for coronavirus had at least one chronic illness. We also know that “although the risks of developing chronic diseases are attributed to both genetic and environmental factors, 70 to 90 percent of disease risks are probably due to differences in environments [or lifestyle factors].” Therefore, one could argue that about 85% of severe coronavirus cases could have been prevented by addressing lifestyle and environmental factors, yet they have been entirely left out of the conversation.
On September 27th, 2018, the UN published an article on their website acknowledging, “every year, 41 million people are killed prematurely by preventable chronic illnesses, which Dr. Ghebreyesus declared a “needless suffering, expense and death.” The figure represents 70 per cent of all deaths globally.” All coronavirus deaths (arguably inflated due to how they were recorded) during the pandemic total about 6M, meaning we crashed economies and obliterated bodily autonomy over a virus that kills a fraction of the people that lifestyle choices kill. Why are coronavirus deaths worth going to extreme measures to prevent, while preventable deaths from chronic illnesses are accepted as part of life?
We know that endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) are present in most processed food in America, even though they could be banned by the same government officials who promised us we could vaccinate our way out of the pandemic. Additionally, according to Vincent Pedre, M.D.:
“Farmed meats and fish raised on an un-natural diet that is focused on producing quantity but not quality may contain high levels of hormones, antibiotics, PCBs, and mercury. These are endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs)—they come into your body and send your hormones, like estrogen and progesterone, into a tailspin. They disrupt hormone signaling. Farm-raised fish are particularly loaded with PCBs and mercury—two very powerful disruptors. Beware of farm-raised or even Atlantic salmon (most of it is farm-raised)—a “healthy” food, which turns out to be anything but that.”
More recently, we also found out the packaging (particularly with fast food) is also poisoning us through their PFAS endocrine-disrupting chemicals. These chemicals are alarming because they affect people’s sex lives, fertility, and chances of having a chronic illness, and they have been shown to make coronavirus worse directly. Ironically, though PFAS chemicals have not been mentioned while the vaccine has been pushed as our most potent weapon, they have also been shown to reduce the antibody response to vaccines, making the vaccines less effective. Endocrine-disrupting chemicals are far more prevalent in low-income and minority communities because of the expense, and lack of, healthy food.
If the goal of public health officials is to save lives, banning all endocrine-disrupting chemicals should be low-lying fruit, and recognizing the role that food and lifestyle play in coronavirus should be near the top of the list. All meat contains purine, a known carcinogen, we now know even wild-caught fish have PFAS chemicals, and we know the opportunity cost of eating dead flesh means you cannot replicate the synergistic benefit of consuming a wide variety of plants (though organs are more nutritious, they are rarely consumed).
In a recent video, Russell Brand does an excellent job pointing out how public health decisions coincidentally align with solutions that are highly profitable to the entities funding those same regulatory agencies. Vaccines, a loose regulatory environment for food production, and the overlooking of successful treatment with generic drugs, the role of obesity, Vitamin D, and nutrition are all lucrative actions that benefit big pharma and food conglomerates. Click below and listen to his comedic yet eye-opening take on whether our public health agencies are working to maximize public health or profit for the corporations funding them.
