Coronavirus Is Getting Worse - Here Is What You MUST Do!

Hello Health Champions. Today I want to talk about what you have to do

and what you have to know when the coronavirus gets worse.

Coming right up.

Hey I'm Dr. Ekberg. I'm a holistic doctor and a former olympic decathlete

and if you want to truly master health by understanding how the body really

works make sure you subscribe and hit that

notification bell so you don't miss anything it's been several months now

that the corona virus epidemic has been a real thing

and during that time different countries and different regions have

had different amounts of lockdown and for a while it felt like we had this

thing somewhat under control but then all of a

sudden it flared up again the new cases in the world were rising

and then they were kind of sitting around

75 000 new cases per day for several weeks and it seemed like it had

plateaued but then around mid april it started

taking off again and now we're seeing over 200 000 cases

per day around the world so in the last few

weeks we've seen a tripling of the new cases

in the united states we had a peak in march beginning of april and then it was

steadily dropping for a solid two months and we thought hey this is going pretty

well but then all of a sudden mid-june it

took off again and now in about a month we had a three and a

half times increase in the daily new cases

a number of explanations have been suggested for this rapid increase and

one is carelessness then we also have opening

up two early virus mutations and low levels

of herd immunity so as far as carelessness i think we've

all seen the footage of parties and political conventions and

crowds in restaurants and beaches and public places

so there's little doubt that there's been a lot of carelessness along with

some very irresponsible people who are just openly defying

the recommendations and saying that well this thing still hasn't

hurt me so i'm not going to worry about it so

unfortunately it will always be people like that but

let's talk more about the other suggestions here did we open up too

early well there are some criteria for opening

up one is that the new cases the daily new cases should be less than

four new cases per 100 000 people in the population

there should be less than five percent of all the tests

coming back positive but that is provided

that you do enough daily tests that you have at least 150 tests

per day per 100 000 people in the population

also you want to see a two-week steady decline

in new cases and new cases of death and you want to have a strong capacity a

reserve capacity of icu intensive care unit beds so in europe

many of the places where they've successfully

opened up like germany and united kingdom

and italy they have met all these criteria and maintained these criteria

and it appears that they have sort of reopened somewhat successfully

but arizona when they opened they failed four of these

texas failed three of these and florida failed two of these and those are

the states in the united states that are mostly responsible for the increase in

cases in the u.s so i think it's very safe to

say that many places have opened up too early

then what if this increase was due to a new virus mutation

because some places that opened early like Georgia

was criticized for opening very early at the end of

april but they never saw any increase in cases for the next

six weeks until the beginning of july end of june where we saw a rapid

increase and they've been tripling quadrupling the rates but why

then did it stay the same for all that time

that they were opening could that be the mutation and there has indeed been

a mutation and it's referred to as a new mutation but it's not really how it

works there was a mutation where one amino

acid on the virus one of the spikes on the virus

changed from a d configuration to what they call

a g configuration and it's also been suggested and there's some

evidence even though it's not solid yet that this version might be

three to nine times more infectious however

even though the d-configuration was dominant in the early phases so during

january february it was dominant from march and on the g

version was already dominant so in march we had 60 to 70 percent

of cases was the g version and in april it was 70 to 80 so if that

increased level of infectiousness was responsible

for the recent increase then we would have seen it

a lot sooner then what about immunity levels

i'd like to compare now georgia and sweden why because

one is where i used to live and one is where i'm currently living

and both of them have almost exactly the same population about 10 million people

and interestingly for the longest time for months they had almost identical

curves they were running identical numbers of new infections

and then around june 1st something happened which was

that sweden increased its level of testing

and they had a large number of backup cases they were there was a lag in

testing so there were a lot of people waiting to be tested so for the next

several weeks they saw a dramatic increase

in numbers but then interestingly even though they maintained that high

level of testing for the last several weeks

there's been a dramatic decrease in the numbers

of new cases whereas at the same time georgia that was running head to head

for so long now has more than 10 times the number of

new cases at the same time the number of deaths

which was a problem initially in sweden because

they hit the elderly population hard in the beginning

that curve has been almost a straight line down and it's approaching

zero now so what about immunity well up to this point almost all the

talk of immunity has involved antibodies and the thinking has

been that once you get the virus and you

fight off the virus your body develops antibodies and these antibodies fit on

the virus and tag the virus and you can fight it off and kill it so they thought

that as long as you have antibodies then you have some level of

immunity the problem has been that the

levels of antibodies and the consistency of the findings

have been very shoddy that in some people you can find antibodies

up to eight weeks in some people a little bit longer

but in some mild infections there are no detectable levels of antibodies at all

and this has made people question whether we can have

any lasting immunity toward coronavirus at all and the

official position has been very conservative and

they've said that we have no idea we can't promise we

can't guarantee at all that there will be any lasting

immunity well there is some really good news on that

front lately because there is a second level of

immunity that is called t cells and whereas

antibodies fit onto and tag the virus directly

the t cells they target the cells in the body that have become infected by

the virus so it doesn't find the virus directly it finds the

cells that are infected and eliminate them and there's several

pieces of good news concerning this because

it appears that the t cell immunity lasts much longer probably for years

and again they don't know for sure what level of immunity is provided by

antibodies or t cells but it does seem like the t cells

provide a longer immunity the problem is that is

much harder to test for t-cell immunity

it requires a lot of hands-on labor and it requires specialized

labs it's not like just a simple test to do it

but in sweden where they did a study of 200 people they found

that 20 of those people had the antibodies but twice as many people

had the t-cell immunity so sweden had observed what they thought

was some degree of immunity some herd

immunity developing but then they had disappointing

findings when the antibodies were lower than expected so they started kind of

doubting this whole immunity idea until they found the t

cells that now sort of correlate pretty well

with the immunity that they're observing but now we get to the really important

stuff all the other stuff is just general

information it's interesting but what do you do with it right here is

what this means for you so first of all your immune system makes

both antibodies and t cells so the better your immune system works the

healthier you are the better your chances of making

adequate antibodies and t cells so do you have a well-working immune

system or a poorly working immune system the

next thing we have to understand is that pathogens are opportunistic a

pathogen is something that can cause disease like

a virus or a bacteria or yeast or fungus

they are opportunistic they take advantage

of a weakened situation and that's why we've had these reports

on the risk groups for the coronavirus that

sicker people are higher risk they have a much much higher likelihood

of getting a severe case and dying and people with asthma copd heart

disease diabetes and obesity could have

hundreds of times higher death rates than a healthy person as an individual

we have two roles one is to be a part of the system

and help reducing the spread so maintain social distancing and wash your hands

and wear a face mask and be smart be responsible take care of yourself and

others but the second part is what no one talks

about and it kills me that there's been so

little emphasis on this when it's so important and that

is to get healthy it's like people don't even have

the notion that that's possible stop and ask for a

moment why are you afraid of the coronavirus

and i'm not suggesting that you shouldn't be i'm not trying to be

flippant but the reason is that you're not sure

you're not certain and neither am i that

you have a strong enough defense against the coronavirus

and we have 600 000 people dead around the world and you don't want

it to be you or someone that you care about but what

you can do is you can change the odds we have such a distorted idea of health

we think of it as either having symptoms or not having symptoms and that's health

or disease but health is a continuum it's a spectrum

so at the one end of the spectrum you have optimum health

and at the other end you have death health

optimum health is when everything works the way it's supposed to

100 percent, all the cylinders firing and death is when function has ceased

completely so this is a continuum from optimum health to death and

if you're at the upper end then you have great health

and great immunity if you're at the lower end

then you have poor health and poor immunity

and everyone in between which is probably some 80

of the population have varying levels of health and immunity here's what we

also have to understand statistics never apply to the individual

case so we could describe a situation and say

that the death rate is so many percent but

there is a spread and if you live then your death rate was zero if you

died your death rate was a hundred percent

and if you're in the healthiest end of the spectrum then

you have a 0.0 something percent chance of dying whereas if you're at the

lowest end of the spectrum it could be as high as

15 percent and here's the key you have a lot

more to say about which end you are than most people realize

let's say that you were here by the orange arrow

and it was possible to do things to get up to the green then you could maybe

take your risk from ten percent to one

percent and this i'm speaking hypothetically but

just suppose that three to four months ago when we

knew this was an epidemic that the whole world's population would

have taken some steps to improve their health

then if we could reduce the death rate by 90

we could have saved over half a million lives and again i'm speaking

hypothetically but i absolutely believe that is possible so some people now

would say that oh well you know i had this diabetes for 20 years it's too late

this thing is upon us now well it's been three to four months since we knew it

was a fact and it could be three to four months or it could be a

year until you encounter it the first time because

most of us probably will then you have plenty of time to do something

about it because some of these changes you could start showing changes in hours

not only can you change the odds but you have a lot more power over it

than you've been led to believe and we're talking about

a probability though not a guarantee there are no guarantees in life but if

you do the right steps if you take systematic consistent steps

then there is a guarantee that you will improve

your odds you'll improve the probability to go

unharmed through this there are several things we know of

that ruin that destroy that down regulate

the immune system and these are things people do every day

they eat sugar sugar drives insulin insulin is associated with obesity and

diabetes and heart disease and high blood

pressure virtually all of the strongest risk factors we also

know that stress shuts down the immune system you can be in one of two states

you can be in healing or you can be in fight flight defend

yourself stress anticipate danger and

when you're stressing you can't heal worry i know that you want to be worried

about this virus and yes you should have respect for it

but you can turn off your worry and of course nutritional deficiencies

will keep your body from functioning optimally

so if you're still doing these things then figure out how to stop

because it could be the difference between life and death likewise there

are things that improve your immune system that up regulate

immunity that increase the beneficial genetic

expression and one thing is fasting a lot of people

are scared of fasting they say oh i've had food every two hours for for years

i could never do that well it's so much easier than you think

everyone can have three meals within eight hours and fast 16 hours super

simple but if you give your body 16 hours without food you have

dramatically up regulated your immunity you have

reduced your insulin you have up regulated your

autophagy which is when your body increases its

recycling and it increases its immune cells

it increases its t cells that go out and clean up the body of debris such as

pathogens and viruses if you do meditation that might be the

fastest most powerful way to

have benefits all the way around meditation

once you get good at it which it is simple if you do it regularly you will

reduce stress you will reduce worry but more than that it might be one

of the most powerful ways to up regulate the positive aspects

of your genetic expression and your immune system

exercise an appropriate amount of exercise

so we've talked about that on many different videos

but if you work out too much that's excess

stress but an appropriate balanced amount of exercise is one of the most

positive things that you can do for your health it up regulates

hundreds of positive genes and it down regulates

hundreds of negative genes and why do i always try to explain

why instead of just giving you the list of the things to do

at the end because knowing why is super super important

when you understand why then you're involving the mind over matter

involving the mind body connection and you get better results than if you

just did the thing so if you cut out sugar

that's good but understanding why and cutting out

sugar is better you have more influence

on your genetic expression you up regulate more positive genes

and down regulate more negative genes you get a

better immune response you get a better physiology

if you know why this was just a short summary of the things to do but if you

understood what i was saying about knowing why and

you'd really like to know more we have hundreds of videos in the library every

single video on this channel talks about the holistic

aspects about the why on how all of this fits together to make the body the

healthiest it can be if you enjoyed this video i think you'd

really like that one next thank you so much for watching i'll

see you next time