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OK, I am going to start a thread here with some research writings and medical commentaries, working towards a proposed dietary and supplement regime for ensuring better outcomes in COVID-19 patients. Researchers can then crit the thing.
Hypokalaemia is huge in severe cases of COVID-19. So, we need potassium and magnesium (q.v. for magnesium explanation). https://www.researchgate.net/post/Is_hypokalemia_in_COVID-19_patients_rcontributing_for_high_mortality_in_older_adults
The role of magnesium in treating hypokalaemia: https://twitter.com/tony_breu/status/1058413700233773056?s=19
Undesirably low serum levels of cholesterol in patients with COVID-19: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3544826
Now, statins are indicated AND contraindicated for COVID-19, depending on which scientist's musings you read. So for now, I will skip those articles.
Let's say that we'll have eggs as our staple dietary foodstuff to supply the cholesterol.
Now, the role of zinc. Similar virus, zinc has a beneficial inhibitory role: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/47794995_Zn_Inhibits_Coronavirus_and_Arterivirus_RNA_Polymerase_Activity_In_Vitro_and_Zinc_Ionophores_Block_the_Replication_of_These_Viruses_in_Cell_Culture
More tomorrow. Got to sleep now.
Meanwhile, see what else you can find on these issues, if possible with n=some statistically significant number, even if just based on case reports and not on a double-blind controlled yada yada. We're talking OTC stuff here, not scheduled medicine from Novartis.
Oh, and remind me to check out any science on COVID-19 and mitochondria, COVID-19 and thiamine and its playmates, COVID-19 and phospholipids, and COVID-19 and nitric oxide synthases. And N-acetyl-cysteine and postural drainage to reduce risk of downstream hypoxia.
I was reminded that I intended to add to this thread when I spotted this rabbithole this evening. So, let's just go back to zinc for a moment. There's a whole thread here. https://twitter.com/ChrisMasterjohn/status/1248716421112176642?s=19
