One of the things we are seeing during the time of coronavirus, is that wellness is of the utmost importance. This pandemic has also led to some out-of-the-box thinking and I personally love the fact that some alternative modalities are being explored because of it. Now, you still have to look for the research that is being done as old ways of thinking and Big Pharma still has it's grip, but it's happening as we are in an emergency situation and thankfully, so many good people want to save lives.
Please check out this video from HBOT USA (Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy USA).
He explains what HBOT may be better than ventilators for Covid19. Doctors have begun to speak out about how Covid is not causing a pneumonia as much as it is causing a lack of oxygen uptake in the blood. It is more of a blood disease than a respiratory one and they are still trying to understand the mechanisms of this.
https://youtu.be/Hx4sG2-Ma_YIn the comments, YouTuber adhishon56 wrote:
To summarize:
COVID doesn't cause pneumonia or ARDs... We are treating a presumed wrong disease.
SARS2 Corona Virus binds to hemoglobin in a certain way that releases the iron ion into the circulation.
Hemoglobin looses its capacity to bind with oxygen, thus oxygen is not supplied to major organs. Which is why we see resistant hypoxia coupled with very rapid multi-organ failures.
To simplify it more, we can take the example of CO-poision where Hemoglobin is unable to carry oxygen.
The free iron released into the circulation is so toxic as it causes a powerful oxidative damage to the lungs (which explain the bilateral -- and always bilateral --ground glass opacities seen on Chest CT of those patients, that was mistakenly treated as bilateral pneumonia).
The body tries to compensate by elevating the rate of Hb synthesis which explains why HB is high in those patients.
Other compensatory mechanisms to deal with the iron load such as increasing ferritin level explain the very high ferritin observed in those patients.
Chloroquine as antimalarial drugs is working by protecting HB against invasion by malaria parasites... it is doing the same here but just protecting the Hb against invasion by the virus
This theory could explain why we are loosing patients so rapidly and why mechanical ventilation is not so much effective in treatment and using ARDS mechanical ventilation protocol is not causing any benefit. actually it could be futile and causing more lung damage
Sure more research is needed to understand the exact pathogenesis because this is the only hope for proper treatment... You can not treat what you do not actually know. This also could explain
Why the high ferritin is bad prognostic marker (too much iron means too much Hb lost its O2 carrying capacity)
Why there is monocytosis as the body needs excess macrophages to engulf the excess iron load... Also why there is Lymphopenia as the WBCs differentiation is favored twards monocytes line rather than lymphocytes line.
Why liver injury with high ALT level happens and why it carries a worse prognosis
