Coronavirus: Your #1 Absolute Best Defense Against COVID-19 - Holistic Doctor Explains

Hello Health Champions.

Today I want to talk about the number one absolute best way to defend yourself against

the coronavirus or any other pathogen that might come around for that matter how do you

get your body to the optimal state where it can defend itself to whatever comes around

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 we have learned that most of the victims of

the coronavirus are elderly and it's always tragic when a young person dies.

Jonathan Coelho was 32 years old a cancer survivor but in good health when his wife

says he began showing early symptoms of coronavirus about a month ago he underwent a series of

treatments was intubated doctors told his wife Katie they expected him to survive he

didn't.

But the question is these young people who are being called normal and healthy and without

underlying conditions are they truly healthy is a person who recently had cancer truly

healthy these are some of the questions we're going to explore and before we're done you're

going to have a totally clear picture have you ever really, really ask yourself what

is the difference if two people get infected and one will live and the other one will die

what is the difference if it was the same pathogen the difference is that one person's

body had the ability to defend itself and the other one didn't that's called an immune

system and some people get infected they don't even notice and that's what we're finding

now with this coronavirus that as many as 20-30% of certain populations already have

developed immunity and they didn't even know it a lot of people when they talk about an

immune system they're talkin about a cell-based immune system with the white blood cells and

the things that support the cell based immune system like the white blood cells they have

to have vitamin A and vitamin C vitamin D and zinc and calcium for example to support

to activate to make possible the activity of the white blood cells if we don't have

enough of these then the white blood cells don't work the way they're supposed to but

again these are nutrient it doesn't mean that if you take a thousand times as much of these

that you're going to have a thousand times more white blood cells it doesn't work like

that we also have something called specific immunity that if we've been exposed to a specific

pathogen we can develop antibodies which is the body's memory it remembers what that pathogen

looked like and it developed an antibody that's fit specifically to that pathogen and it remembers

and this immunity could last for many months or many years or even a lifetime and that's

what we're not quite sure about with the coronavirus is it just going to last the season or is

it going to give us lasting immunity but more than just a cell-based immune system we want

to talk about the body defenses the whole body defense because the immune system the

way they talk about it it's not really a system it's just certain body parts okay but your

whole body is the immune system you are the immune system you have 40 trillion cells and

the healthier those 40 trillion cells are the better their nutritional status the better

their ability to make energy the better their ability to do what they're supposed to do

the healthier you are the stronger your defenses is and some of these cells provide physical

barrier so your skin is a physical barrier you can get the virus on your skin and not

be infected you can wash it away and you'll be okay cuz you have a barrier you also have

a physical barrier in your intestinal lining and your lung shining and there's many different

types of physical barriers then you have cell membranes like a virus can only replicate

inside a cell so it has to penetrate a cell membrane so the healthier and stronger and

better working your cell membranes are the more difficult for a virus to make entry you

have mucus membranes that secrete mucus to trap and move pathogens away you have chemical

defenses you have cells that spew out free radicals and toxic substances and hydrogen

peroxide that act as poison on these microbes and you have detoxification because these

microbes produce toxins in turn and then you need a liver and a kidney and so forth to

filter out and neutralize those toxins and then you have a spleen that can filter out

cellular debris and residue so all of these cells all of these organs are part of your

immune system you are the immune system and of course your white blood cells the cell

based immune system is also super important but they're only part of the total defense

what are the official US spokespeople is dr. Anthony Fauci and he has said repeatedly he

is convinced there will be a coronavirus in the fall and he also said not just him but

the general consensus is that if we have a vaccine in 12 to 18 months that is happening

really fast that's the quickest we can expect it and it might take longer than that so the

things that we have done in stopping the spread all of the social distancing and the quarantine

has been important it has been critical essential to not overwhelm the crisis Healthcare System

but it may not be so much of stopping the spread as delaying the spread that has been

the purpose and the goal all the time because if we’re going to have a coronavirus in

the fall if it's going to come around anyway and there won't be a vaccine then it wasn't

so much about stopping as it was delaying it so we may not be able to avoid it altogether

and if we all sort of protect ourselves but the virus is still around then as soon as

we open up again then we risk a second wave anytime there is a crisis like a pandemic

there are things that we can learn it's a learning opportunity and depending on who

you are you can learn different things so the healthcare officials the government and

the CDC and the official agencies their job is to learn contact tracing and good hygiene

to learn how the virus spreads so that they can teach us good hygiene and good protective

measures like social distancing and they learn how to optimize the crisis care system so

that we have the capacity when we get a wave then we have researchers and their job is

to study the viral strain study their genomes and study their pathogenicity and their receptors

to figure out exact how it works so that they can develop a vaccine that's their job and

then what about you your job is to listen to the good advice of the authorities on how

to prevent the spread but other than that your job is to get healthy your job is to

optimize your body to optimize your chances to have a positive outcome to beat the virus

if you should get infected and what is so astounding to me is that there is no talk

of getting healthy there has been millions of hours and millions of miles of writing

on the topic of the coronavirus and yet I haven't heard anyone talk about health about

how to strengthen your body to increase your chances and I think the reason for that is

that we have a passive medical Model we are told to just do whatever you do eat the standard

American diet eat your processed food eat your sugar I haven't heard anyone say to reduce

your sugar consumption for example and then we're told to take pills to compensate for

the symptoms and the problems created by our deficient food and our toxic food and then

to get the flu shot and wait for the vaccine that's a passive model there is nothing about

health in that passive model then why is it that no one talks about health and I believe

that it is because as a culture the entire modern world we don't know what health is

we have completely equated health with the absence of symptom and once we have a symptom

we think we're sick and then the system The medical model their job is to treat the symptom

not to get you healthy.

As a matter of fact we don't even have a healthcare system in the modern world what we have is

a sick care system and at least where I'm from in Sweden and I don't think it's because

they're nobler or anything that just happens that they call it a sick care in Sweden it’s

called “sjukvård” it's not called health care because it isn't health it's about treating

sickness and that's not a bad thing but they're different questions being asked in a healthcare

model or in a sick care model they're asking how do we treat this symptom what sort of

chemical or pill or medication do we give to suppress this symptom in this crisis situation

and that's not a bad thing that can be very useful in a crisis but it has nothing to do

with health we've all heard that there are certain risk factors associated with the coronavirus

covid-19 and one is obesity if you have a body mass index over 40 your risk of dying

increases dramatically if you have diabetes or if you have one or more of the things associated

with metabolic syndrome such as cardiovascular disease type 2 diabetes high blood pressure

chronic lung liver or kidney disease most of these are associated with insulin resistance

some of them directly and others more indirectly then we have people who are vulnerable we've

all been told to shelter the vulnerable and these are people who in addition to the first

three they might have had chemotherapy they might be weakened from from smoking or chronic

steroid corticosteroids or any other chronic disease or neurodegenerative disease and the

greatest risk factor of all is to be old being over 70 years old and why is that because

by the time you get to that age you tend to have a little bit of all of the above you

have more cardiovascular disease you have more type 2 diabetes more high blood pressure

more arthritis you have accumulated a lot more of these in short you are less healthy

most of the risk factors of covid-19 are associated with insulin resistance so what else does

insulin resistance do well every year around the world it claims 17 million lives from

heart attacks seven and a half million from hypertension 5 million deaths from stroke

1.6 million from diabetes and the list goes on and if insulin resistance already kills

this many people is it really so surprising that it would also have a tendency to kill

off more people with coronavirus infection if we want to put it in the simplest possible

terms then I would say that these people die and the people from the coronavirus die because

they are less healthy their body has less ability to defend itself but then the question

is what is health and who is perfectly healthy we'll health is a continuum it's like how

much a capacity How much cellular capacity do you have to defend yourself on the one

and it would have Optimal Health when everything is working perfectly and on the other hand

nothing would be working and we have death everything in between is a spectrum it's a

continuum and the large portion in the middle where probably the majority of the world's

population are is called functional illness and people they're not super healthy and they

don't have a disease they're just sort of on their way there so perfect health would

be over on this end and I don't think there's anyone on the planet that has perfect health

because there are heavy metals and chemicals and depleted foods and hormones and so forth

there's there's enough interference already that we probably don't really have perfect

health but the people who do their best to take care of themselves and who are really

sort of examples of of health I think they're going to be somewhere in this range over on

the other end we have people with a diagnosis these are the underlying conditions the cardiovascular

disease the high blood pressure et cetera these are people have made it far down enough

that they have been diagnosed with something then what about the people who don’t have

a diagnosis right now but who are being called perfectly healthy like the person in the clip

in the initial clip in the news anchor said that this person was a cancer survivor but

otherwise healthy if you had cancer than you're already way over on this side of the spectrum

cancer is not something that happens overnight to perfectly healthy people so even if this

person was a cancer survivor then he might have made it across the line and gotten a

little bit better but most of the factors that caused the cancer will probably still

there and that person was probably not over here and that's what we have to understand

that I'm not saying that anyone is perfectly immune I would never be arrogant enough to

think that that I was way over here because there's so many things we don't know but we

know that there are certain things we can do to improve our chances so in my opinion

I believe that a lot of the people who are called perfectly healthy actually a probably

over here and you can be here even if your 20 or 25 or 30 years old so in their current

sick care system the question they ask is how can we treat the symptom what kind of

chemical can we give and what kind of body part can we remove and those are good questions

in a symptom care system in a sick care system now let's switch around and start asking health

questions let's start asking what is required for health so if we had a five-year-old and

we asked what does a plant need to be healthy what are the requirements of a plant I think

the five-year-old could get it right I think they would say that the plant needs water

and if the water isn't making it healthy then it also probably need some sunshine and if

we giving it water and sunshine and it still doesn't thrive then you probably needs some

good soil and I think the five-year-old could also tell us that it has to have all three

of these at the same time we can't deprive it of one of these three for any length of

time and have a healthy plant we have to have all the things that are required so that brings

us to the next question what are the requirements for human health well we have a chemical aspect

to our body we have a structural aspect or body and we have an emotional aspect to our

body and there's some of those aspects that will increase life that will provide more

life that will enhance Optimum Health and there's some of that will subtract that will

interfere when it comes to chemical or nutritional we need fuel but in addition to fuel we also

need essential fatty acids essential amino acids we need vitamins and minerals this is

called nutrition and whole food provides it whereas processed food does not on the downside

of the chemical we have sugar and frequent processed carbohydrates that cause insulin

resistance that clog up the body that has a congestive and toxifying effect we have

pure toxins that are chemicals and pesticides and so forth and then drugs are another form

of toxins they are chemicals designed to interfere and it doesn't mean that they're always bad

they can save a life in a crisis but it means that they can never make you healthier they

can never create a long-term solution they can never raise you from a lower health state

to a higher health state in the long run The body is structural you have a mechanical aspect

your body moves and movements is necessary it's a requirement movements provide the majority

of the signals to keep your brain alive there is virtually no physical no physiological

mechanism no system in the body that doesn't work better with movement and that works less

with a lack of movement movement is required for every system in the body and good posture

is a requirement for proper signals good posture facilitates it normalizes movement if you

have poor posture if your posture is stuck then you're not going to get the proper movement

or the proper signaling and if you have poor posture if you have areas of your body that

aren't moving then chiropractic is a great way to jumpstart that movement but it's not

a total movement solution it's just getting you to the place where you can move and then

you take it from there the opposite of good movement is a sedentary lifestyle where you

don't move and if you're trying to move but you have poor posture or if you've had a lot

of trauma that restricts the motion now you also cannot get proper movement humans are

also emotional and when we have peace and we have joy and we have purpose everything

that feels good makes your body work better a little bit of short-term stress is fine

but for the most part we have to have some good emotions we cannot have only bad emotions

because then the body prioritizes to defend itself instead of heal itself the opposite

would be anything that feels bad like stress and anger and fear and frustration and overwhelmment

to the absolute best way to defend yourself against the coronavirus or any of the pathogen

is to make your body stronger so it can defend itself take an active role in rebuilding your

health in restoring your body and giving your body all the things that it needs all the

things that contribute to more life and avoid as much as possible the things that interfere

with the building of health it looks like the coronavirus might be with us for some

time and if it goes away then who knows what comes next in the long run your best defense

is always going to be strong health so why not use the current epidemic as a really really

good reason to start doing something about it if you enjoyed this video make sure that

you also check out that one thanks so much for watching I'll see you in the next video.