Triple Down Now
Since the blog post “Double Down Now” on 12/7/2020, things in our world have deteriorated more.
Today, the Idaho Department Health and Welfare activated Crisis Standards of Care. Urgent Care and Primary Care facilities and systems are full, and as a consequence, Emergency Care Departments are getting full, too. Because of pent-up demand for care needed now, that had been delayed over the past year and a half, and the increased and highest numbers of patients hospitalized with SARS-CoV-2 to this point, hospitals and other medical facilities are essentially triaging patients.
It is seriously and vitally important now to take care of ourselves.
We have to take the necessary and known steps to keep our bodies in the most healthy states possible.
This should be a wake-up call for us all to triple down in our efforts to treat our bodies in the best ways possible to keep our immune systems 100% prepared and robust.
Our metabolic health is the foundation and is part-in-parcel with our immune function.
We should not subject ourselves to the eventual triage situation in the medical system, and risk not getting the care we need, especially when we encounter accidents that need to be addressed by Emergency Departments. We as well cannot let our health go, and progress to even worse levels of chronic disease that deteriorate our metabolic health and immune system.
We have to be extremely disciplined in our actions:
Quoting from “Double Down Now,” please read the original post for the details on Quality and Quantity:
1. Sleep (Stress Management/Breathing): Quality and Quantity
2. Hydration/Electrolyte Balance: Quality and Quantity
3. Nutrition: Quality and Quantity
4. Movement: Quality and Quantity
As an update to that list above, add Supplementation:
As a start, Multivitamin, Vitamin D3, Vitamin C, Zinc, Iodine, Quercetin, Resveratrol, and Omega-3’s (EPA and DHA) are going to be important to keep up.
It will be difficult moving forward in the next few months, but get outdoors as much as possible to experience as much sunlight and to breathe as much fresh air as possible.
More detail on Nutrition:
Knowing what the effects of hyperinsulinemia are, which lead to the preventable chronic diseases that a majority of Americans are experiencing (from the CDC: “Six in ten Americans live with at least one chronic disease, like heart disease and stroke, cancer, or diabetes. These and other chronic diseases are the leading causes of death and disability in America, and they are also a leading driver of health care costs.”) today, which turn out to be the underlying conditions that the vast majority of hospitalized SARS-CoV-2-infected patients experience, then we have to keep our insulin levels low.
From the CDC on 7/1/2021, “Underlying Medical Conditions and Severe Illness Among 540,667 Adults Hospitalized With COVID-19, March 2020–March 2021”:
“Among 4,899,447 hospitalized adults in PHD-SR, 540,667 (11.0%) were patients with COVID-19, of whom 94.9% had at least 1 underlying medical condition. Essential hypertension (50.4%), disorders of lipid metabolism (49.4%), and obesity (33.0%) were the most common. The strongest risk factors for death were obesity (adjusted risk ratio [aRR] = 1.30; 95% CI, 1.27–1.33), anxiety and fear-related disorders (aRR = 1.28; 95% CI, 1.25–1.31), and diabetes with complication (aRR = 1.26; 95% CI, 1.24–1.28), as well as the total number of conditions, with aRRs of death ranging from 1.53 (95% CI, 1.41–1.67) for patients with 1 condition to 3.82 (95% CI, 3.45–4.23) for patients with more than 10 conditions (compared with patients with no conditions).”
Anything that spikes up and keeps up our insulin levels elevated in our bodies throughout our day is what we need to control. Continually eating large numbers of processed carbohydrates and added sugars throughout our day leads to insulin resistance and the risk of developing the chronic diseases mentioned above. Having a chronic disease, like mentioned above, turns out to be a risk factor for being hospitalized with the SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Especially for anyone who is dealing with excess body fat/(borderline) obesity, we have to shut off the consumption of processed carbohydrates and added sugars to reduce the risk of getting hospitalized after being infected with SARS-CoV-2.
If we sleep, hydrate, eat, move, and supplement well, then we are shoring up our bodies’ defenses to be able to fight any bacterial or viral infections, like SARS-CoV-2, especially. We all have been, or will be exposed to SARS-CoV-2 specifically at some point; there is no getting around that. How well we respond to that exposure depends on how ready our bodies are to fight. We stand a chance to fight infection and recover with immunity quicker than if we were already dealing with an existing chronic disease.
The time is now to triple down.