Jefferey Smith:
…of the sequences that provide the information for upgrading--where that knowledge bank is being destroyed because of its antibiotic qualities, destroying that diversity, then there's a demand to bring in more of that diversity. That sets up the person to then pull in that viralvic information into their system. Normally it comes in and it's handleable. It comes in and there's a certain number of ACE2 receptors. It comes in and there's a certain concentration of the virus and it's not attached to anything else. It can come in, we can deal with it. But in this case--in Wuhan area and Northern Italy and other places with this high level of air pollution--that it actually combines the viruses into clumps.
Jefferey Smith (21:34):
That changes the way the body can deal with it. The body is not getting the normal level of intelligence. It's getting perhaps an overdose or perhaps something that's not functioning correctly--we haven't figured that out yet, or you haven't shared that. But in addition it's connected to cyanide. Now when the body, goes to the ACE2 receptors, normally there's a certain number, but if people have problems with their kidneys or liver or heart (I believe those are the three organs you mentioned), and they have to take something which increases the number of ACE2 receptors, so now all of a sudden we're pulling in far more viruses than we were supposed to, because we've artificially increased the number of doors. And what's going through the door is unfortunately not the normal shape of the virus but a clumped shape of the virus, and it's smuggling in cyanide. The cyanide gets in there and causes what you call hypoxia… can you explain what that is? I think it's the suffocation, or the inability to process oxygen. Can you share what hypoxia is?
Dr. Zach Bush (22:40):
Great question. Hypoxia is…and this situation with toxic hypoxia, where there's been a poisoning of the bloodstream, cyanide is only one of the many things in air pollution that could contribute to this--but cyanide is the most specific, and I think the low hanging fruit for us to study and start to treat. What is happening with hypoxia is the oxygen is still present, and there's plenty of oxygen in the air you're breathing. There's plenty of oxygen in your bloodstream, but unfortunately the red blood cell itself can no longer bind that oxygen molecule. So the hemoglobin protein within your red blood cell develops a misshapen protein structure, and it's very likely that glyphosate and other toxins in our environment are predisposing to that injury as well. Nonetheless, the hemoglobin can no longer carry the oxygen that's present.
Dr. Zach Bush (23:30):
This is why our management in ICU’s was so misinformed--because these patients were not showing up with respiratory failure. They didn't have pneumonia; they didn't have lungs filled with fluid yet. Instead they were presenting with malformed hemoglobin, and we have medications that can fix this. One of them happens to be hydroxychloroquine, which got famous because everybody was laughing at president Trump for saying, “Oh, maybe hydroxychloroquine--that's a malaria drug. Why would that work?” Well, it would work because it changes the shape of the red blood cell. Malaria infects the red blood cell and screws up the relationship there, and it can break red blood cells. Hydroxychloroquine changes that relationship with the red blood cell to micro organisms, and in this case changes it to cyanide so that the hemoglobin changes its shape and it can carry oxygen again.
Dr. Zach Bush (24:36):
It turns out that hydroxychloroquine is kind of a weaker factor there, but a very powerful tool is something like sodium nitrate. That’s actually very cheap, for 10 bucks, and in every single hospital in the world is a cyanide treatment kit.