Monday, 13 April 2020

CORONAVIRUS AND FATTY TISSUE

For several weeks now, I have been piecing the Covid 19 lifestyle together like a jigsaw puzzle. I have used advice from doctors and professors from ABC and BBC. There has been mention of the virus lodging in fatty tissue.

I was not sure having heard the advice only twice in two months. So I focused instead on the virus causing pneumonia in the tissues of the lungs and blocking entry of oxygen and removal of carbon dioxide from the lungs.

But there were other pieces of the jigsaw puzzle. There had never been any mention of athletes dying of coronavirus. They have little fat on the body. Children were less likely while older people and those with pre-existing illnesses were vulnerable by being overweight. 

Recently there has been a report of the virus replicating deep in the tissues. Are these the fat tissues !!!

It may have been the effects of obesity that caused diabetes and high blood pressure. We must recall that fat does not follow other nutrients from the small intestine to the liver. 

It enters the lymph vessels from the small intestine to the heart and deposits in the heart. Note the fat on sheep hearts in the supermarket.

So the virus may replicate in the heart fat that explains vulnerability of the patient to heart attack and high blood pressure. 

Other people especially those with HIV infection will suffer from loss of fat to the face, buttocks, arms and legs. 

There will be a build up of trigliceride fats on the belly that reach down to the major organs. Is the virus involved with replicating in the trigliceride fats?

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