Episode 100: A Covid-19 Low-carb-micronutrient protocol to lower your risk of infection

Now that the specific data on who is most vulnerable to the corona virus SARS COV-2 we can better apply what we know through low carb and with the use of strategic supplementation that may lower your risk factor even.

From the recent work in France on their use of Hydrocloroquine and Azithromyocin (a anti-malarial drug, and an anti-biotic) they have reduced the number of deaths due to the virus. These medications give insight into what else can be used and why they are effective. However since these are prescription medications, most people will not be able to take them. A few other supplements, in addition to what we know about the specific nature of the virus (ie how it attaches to our cells), may well be just the thing to ‘bridge the gap’ between knowing what we do for ourselves and others and just fearing the worst.

The appropriateness of low carb keto can not be overstated, and is verified to be effective for viral infections in general (too soon to have data on Covid-19 but helpful nonetheless).

Reducing your total risk to this virus is the objective of today podcast. Something you can do in addition to the required ‘social-distancing’, ‘home isolation’ and hand-washing for these coming weeks 

To make sure we all get through this together.

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https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html 

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speaker 0:   0:00
Hi, This is Dr Karl GoldKamp.  

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speaker 0:   1:18
Hi, This is Dr Goldkamp  

speaker 0:   1:20
Welcome back to another episode of the Keto Naturopath. You know, I don't know if today's episode is gonna be long or it's gonna be short, but I do know it's gonna be appropriate and is gonna be effective for specifically now, which is March 24th 2020. This happens to be the 100th episode of our podcast, so that by itself would be a an opportunity for celebration, but the world is really pretty weird right now, and maybe we'll listen back in a year or two and this will be the middle of the trough of what has become known as the, you know, settled at home in the middle of the covid-19 isolation. So we have experienced a worldwide pandemic, and the experience is unique in the sense that it's actually physically isolating.   We are all at home and some states we're mandated to be at home except for essential services like going out and shopping and such, but, for the most part, we are all meant to stay at home. It's not even a curfew. It's stay at home. That's amazing. So for Americans, the most Americans saying, well, that's against my rights. Nobody's gonna tell me what to do.  

speaker 0:   2:37
At the same time, we look back to 1918 and the great pandemic of the Spanish flu, which really wasn't the Spanish flu, is just they were the first to acknowledge it, and we say, well, actually, the thing that really helped get over the Spanish flu was the fact that people did isolate themselves and that example is used the difference between Pittsburgh and ST Louis and Philadelphia. Philadelphia ignored the restraints, thinking wishfully that there was soon going to be a vaccine for the Spanish flu. They were wrong  and consequently, the health inspector allowed a huge parade. I don't know if was the Mummers Parade, but in October, and they had the worst outcome for the entire country.  

speaker 0:   3:26
So clearly  the variable of being isolated on a per household basis is important, and we now have oh, YouTube's or the the bits and pieces of information for whatever media you're watching of people in, various parts of the world saying, stay at home. You know all the emergency care workers saying stay at home. You're actually helping people by staying at home. You know, stay out of the picture,  don't be a statistic. And also don't get contaminated. If you're contaminated, Think of all the other people that you would contaminate. So this has been pretty obvious. This is sort of the overall lock down idea.  Along that, to explore this little bit a little further because there's some logic here. and just like when everything gets to be public, it gets to be watered down to the point that it is a little bit oversimplified. So, ideally, if everybody actually could stay in their homes for those except for the services of going out shopping and such, if they could stay in their homes for the next two weeks period. We all walked in, stayed in our homes, and we figured out what to do. We could probably be over this very, very quickly. Why do I think that? And by the way, I'm not the only one that thinks that because here's how it's gonna go. Let me just go to a site that I use. Give me some of the facts here, so let me give you to the minute the accuracy of what's going on in the world in this global pandemic, and we'll get to worst cases in best cases and things we can extract from that. Then we're gonna go on to an overall immune protocol that I think is very appropriate.  I think you should listen to it, and I think you should implement it.  By the way, I don't have any financial gains is saying this, so we'll get to that, but that's the thumbnail sketch of what we're gonna be talking about today.  

speaker 0:   5:19
So as of this minute on March 24th late in the afternoon on the east coast of the United States, we have total confirmed, this is from the Johns Hopkins University Covid-19 global cases, et cetera, 400 pretty much 410,000 worldwide confirmed cases. We have a total of 18,000 plus deaths, and then we have a portion, about 1/4 of all the cases have become recovered, so it's pretty interesting.  In terms of the most number of cases, the most number cases is still in China, and by the way, at this point, Wuhan, I think tomorrow or maybe it's today, their public service transportation service is gonna go back to 100% and it looks like the population there will be back to work 100%. So it's been for them at worst, a three month work interruption.  I think far less than that, but let's just throw in three months. Right now the political talk is taking time off is going to be too much of an economic burden for the United States outside of a couple of weeks, if we can even do that.  Trump, this isn't plus or minus Trump, by the way, this is just saying what the conversations are currently. Sort of marks it in time. Trump is thinking that it's too big of an ask to say that we're gonna take all this time off to protect people from the virus because people die from other causes anyways.  He used the example from just because people  die on the road, we don't take their cars away. So that's where the conversation is right now. But anyway, in the world,  about 82,000 cases have been reported in China. Behind that is Italy, coming up to about 69,000 plus. covid-19 Italy is considered now the epicenter of covid-19, that is SARS-Cov2 is the virus. In part it's the contrast of first of all China discovered they had this issue, and they made these massive hospitals to take care of the population, which is very impressive to have that kind of coordination. So they quickly closed down, isolated people as much as they possibly could.   

speaker 0:   7:42
In Italy, apparently, that was the number one tourist destination for a lot of Chinese - who knew - and they were not a population that was really inclined to shut anybody down to build anybody's hospital.  So they're overwhelmed. They're not there now at the point, of, those who are 60 years of age or over this is in northern Italy - Lombardi,  60 years of age or over and in a respiratory unit that they have to take the ventilators away and given to younger people.  So, in other words, there's not enough ventilators there.  So the sparseness is having them create a kind of a triage.  Who is most likely to survive not the old but the younger. 

speaker 0:   8:31
Let me interject here back to 1918 flu epidemic, which was about  2 years overall, and that there was actually three waves there.  So when they try to compare the SARS-Cov2  to covid-19 that it's a little bit of an unfair comparison, because there were three waves in 1918 and the first wave was for the older and then for the younger and in the third wave, which the one that came in in the fall of 1918 was for the middle aged. So all in all, everybody got hit at one wave or another.  

speaker 0:   9:10
Right now we're seeing a wave that, according to the data coming out of Italy and out of China and somewhat out of South Korea, which has been testing a lot, that it is mostly about the older, the elderly and the elderly with certain co-morbidity.   So co-morbidities or other conditions that they had other problems. They clearly had anybody was a smoker, put them at far more a risk.  That's for obvious reasons.  This is a respiratory virus.  So if you're already compromising your respiratory facilities, your lungs and then your heart,  you will be at risk.  

speaker 0:   9:46
That's sort of saying the obvious, I hope to you.   After that was diabetes, and after that was obesity, and after that was hypertension and and it goes on from there.  So what are some of the things for that set of co-morbidities, absent the smoking.   If you were a smoker, that's kind of self induced.  We know that smoking is the  number one most associate Cardiovascular. Yeah, it creates most of the problems for our lungs. So pull that out. And what we have is obesity, diabetes, hypertension and heart conditions. Do you hear see a vascular  theme in that?  

speaker 0:   10:30
When one becomes overweight, obese, pre-diabetic, diabetic, what does that mean? Well, obviously they have elevated blood glucose levels. What happens that elevated blood  glucose levels that creates a vascular problem called endothelial problem of the vasculature? So what areas would you be concerned about? You be concerned about heart, you'd be concerned about head.  So diabetes ,in general, or having chronic elevated blood glucose levels, which is basically what diabetes is, that you will have heart condition issues. You either have a narrowing of the various  arteries and veins. Mostly the arteries we're concerned about are in the heart and likewise for the brain.  That is stroke, or various degrees of stroke, or heart or various degrees of heart problems. You also can have things like phlebitis, but it's basically a vascular issue. So that's the co-morbidity. Really, it's vascular problems. These are the conditions that are created by chronic elevated blood glucose levels. So there you go. So why would I say that?  

speaker 0:   11:50
Well, this is basically a low carb solution. This is Keto  Naturopath, which is low carb. The low carbs are basically guiding or training your blood glucose to operate at a much lower level, 80's and 70's as the norm. So as you come down from wherever you are, that's a goal for you to get too well comfortably within those normal readings. When you go in to get blood work done, the normal readings air now over 100 that's too high. It just means the average of the population is getting too high and they're getting sick. So you really can't compare yourself to that. You've got to be more specific.  

speaker 0:   12:26
Okay, so now back to the theme of covid-19 and vascular conditions. If you even start today to drop your blood glucose levels, that is a very big deal. Yes, you won't get those co morbidities and you're gonna say, Well, it takes a while to get those co-morbidities. They didn't just start the week before these people got sick. Yeah, that's correct. Then I should also say there's a number of studies out there and you could go into Pub Med or Google Scholar and go, elevated glucose/diabetes/obesity and flu incidents.  You'll find out that we're really talking the same thing or are virus whatever. You'll see that there'll be a number of studies come up that do have this correlation. So we don't know anything specific to say that about covid- 19 right now. We can't say that it's all so new, even though the Corona virus, which is the larger family of the virus, this is one type of the corona virus and is this mutation for this year and it's mutating as an ongoing basis.   So we don't necessarily all get the same virus we get predominately the same virus, but perhaps a different form.   That's how ah virus attenuates over time it changes this mutation and usually gets less strong. Then the flu season's over. So to say.   The covid-19 season is over. So that's the direction it's going.  Those that have chronically sustained levels of elevated blood glucose put themselves at risk for greater flues and colds, etcetera. That's the known part. The unknown part is we  can't attach that to covid-19 right now, but we can to Corona viruses. So there we go. We got it almost boxed, and you can almost cross that T and dot that I, but we can't technically.    

speaker 0:   14:23
So globaly,  we're looking at the United States is now Number three is a big country. You would wonder, you know, why isn't  Russia are some of the former USSR countries not there somewhere pretty isolated. And I think some of them are just not even counting.   I do find it surprising that Russia is not up there. But the U. S. is  now 50,000. Italy, 70 thousand.  US is now third.   Spain is another line that's becoming uncontrolled. Germany is really starting to zoom up there. So you have Europe, which supposedly was spawned from what was going on in Italy that they took very little in the way of any sort of control.  They regret it.   It's a learning curve. So we're learning from them. If wasn't for Italy, we might not have our 14 days of lockdown or a month of lockdown.

speaker 0:   15:15
As you know, schools have been canceled.  Our last gym day l is gonna be tomorrow. We have to figure out what to do. So that's the world situation.  

speaker 0:   15:25
Let me go to another map for a slightly different perspective. Remember, today's focus is for me not to just regurgitate these numbers, but it is to give you  what I think is a protocol for what you could do to support your immune system.  To say something like that is very vague. There isn't just one immune system. There's so many components to the immune system, you can't just go and this is good for everything. Or this is good for everybody. That's never the case. So I'm gonna outline some things that we do recommend for everybody and why that is a general recommendation and then some specific things for this situation from what we know about the covid-19.

speaker 0:   16:09
Back to more data. This is about the United States. Let me just break that down into states. We basically have three states that are just more or less losing control.  New York is over 25 thousands of cases. They've had total deaths of 210 now.  This is not in order of size, but in terms of the states that obviously have the most cases or New York. It's a large state and heavily populated. You have California.   Case number one in the United States was in Washington state. So it varies a lot. Now it's spreading around a lot, and we all get to see the same map and it stopped updated at every newscast. You are there, listen to or watch on YouTube.   Massachusetts was kind of a surprise with a Biogen employees, sort of passing it around, unbeknownst that he was the guy or one of the people who came back from Italy, apparently. So that's the local thing.  What they know about the specifics of Covid-19 is that the points of greatest importance are : far more men are dying than women at a ratio of 3 to 1 (reasons  unknown), mean age of death (primarily from Italy) is 78 and 1/2. Women slightly older than men. 2% of those dying had no co-morbidity, in other words, they were healthy. So you can't always say is a co-morbidity. But it's 2% as opposed to the 98% that did. 50% had three or more co-morbidities .  Symptoms: 1% were coughing up blood, 8% had diarrhea, 40% had a cough, 73% difficulty breathing and 76% had a fever and a low grade fever.  The difference between a bacterial infection and a viral infection is really the height of the fever, Viruses are notorious for low grade, long term fevers. Bacterial infections are high fevers, 104, 105, 106 and usually come and go quickly. Okay, 96.5% died of acute respiratory distress syndrome. Think of lungs. Obviously, their center of it so therefore secondarily would be the heart, and it goes from there. There have been deaths under 50. There have not been any deaths under 30. 

speaker 0:   18:50
One of the things that has come up is that going to go to this thing called ace inhibitor to receptor medications. So what does that mean?  The actual virus is now known to connect with the cell it is about to infect. That had a receptor that is called the Ace two receptor. And so the ace two receptor also happens to be the receptor that a lot of anti hypertensive medications that is, medications used for high blood pressure. So if you are on what they call it A R B, which is that kind of medication for high blood pressure. They connect to that and blocks that particular receptor. That's its mechanism. It's part of the end angiotensin converting enzyme scenario process. I'm not gonna go into all that, but so just say it's right down to that receptor. So by coincidence, you might say this is actually a pretty important receptor. The theory. The working theory of that particular medication was blocked the receptor, and we will have to do with the kidneys. The kidneys will absorb less sodium primarily. And if it absorbs, if it keeps less sodium in the blood, then it will also keep less water in the blood. And so therefore, that would be a little blood pressure. The opposite would be if you didn't block.  Therefore, water follow sodium into your the vessels so you'd have more fluid in your vessels and therefore you'd have higher blood pressure systemically. So that's how that works. All right, well, that's now problem. So the question then is is it a problem that you tell everybody on that kind of medication to get off it and find either. Don't be on any hypertensive medications, anti hypertensive medications, Or do you find a different one for them? Nobody knows for sure, but more and more knowledgeable, much more knowledgeable people than myself. They're saying. Yep, get these people off that particular medication So it's an ace 2 receptor blocker would be otherwise known as A R B is the medication that's of concern.

speaker 0:   0:00
Do you tell people to do it to stay on it or not? Here's the information. There's people that were working within our program. I give them information, I say, talk to your doctor and make sure, and here's the reference to these particular studies. Here's a reference for these particualar opinions.   Have that conversation.   So that's kind of out how I deal with it.  However, there's a backside to ace inhibitors in general, and these ARBs.  They cause a zinc deficiency, probably among other things, but they are documented as creating zinc deficiency. Why would that be a problem? Well, that's a problem both for heart muscle, the heart becomes low on zinc, say depleted or partially depleted.  The problem with zinc is it's a big immune regulator. It's a big part of your immune system. So you are on this medication to drop down your blood pressure, but you're putting yourself at risk immunologically. So now we can say, well, that medication puts you at risk in two ways Immunologically.  The receptor thing that I just finished talking about and now  zinc. 

speaker 0:   0:00
So that then begins for me to open up this list of what would I recommend for on immune protocol?  I think this is pretty important.   This is definitely what I would do when this first started, before I bought into the idea that was actually a serious thing to focus on.  So it's now back about a month or so ago, I was rather slow or fast, depending where you talk to you, right?   You know,  vitamin C was used a lot in China, and so there's a number of direct testimonials about China.  Simply people taking oral vitamin C.  Vitamin C  has such a huge range that  you can really do anything.  You don't necessarily have to have IV vitamin C, but it would be nice  if they have it in the hospital for those under acute care.   I would take a least two grams a day and you can go up to 5, 10, 15, 20 grams a day if you can tolerate it gradually.  That would be one thing.  We used to prescribe it as take it to bowell tolerance.  Some people have a pretty high tolerance, so it's better just to give them the numbers. The other thing is, as you come off vitamin C, taper down because you can  induce what they call a rebound scurvy.   A rebound scurvy is suddenly you stop taking it and your body is still used to excreting at it at a certain volume and you then go into a  couple weeks of depletion.  Now you're going to be very low on vitamin C, and you'll probably get the canker sores and a few other things that one gets when they have scurvy. Okay, so keep that in mind and everything's fine. You don't have to stay on it forever.

speaker 0:   0:00
Vitamin D would be anther one.  I take 5000. IU of vitamin D3 coupled together with vitamin K2.  I do that at least  four days of a seven day week. Why don't I do it every day?  I frankly think that 5000 IUs taken consistently month after month is too much. But, I think taking my 20,000 IUs per week as we go through this is fine.  So what happens  if you have too much?  The  thing about making any recommendation that people will take 10 times your recommendation thinking more is better.  All I can say is more stupid.   Just don't be stupid on this.  You can induce various bone spurs.   If I start to get a certain neck ache, I will drop my vitamin D, and within three days that neck pain will go away.  It's a the remnant from a skiing accident of a while ago.  So,  that's the vitamin D part to that.

speaker 0:   0:00
I would also add NAC, N-Acetyl-Cysteine. It's a precursor for glutathione.  It's the largest antioxidant in the body. It is also it's mucolitic.  So it's gonna dry you up, and that's a good thing. So if you're starting to get sort of,mucousy in the course of all this, NAC will help.   So in one way, if you're not sick at all, it's a preventative because you're now keeping your antioxidant high in your body.  That's a good thing.  Once you start, should you ever start manifesting any  respiratory symptoms, it will keep you dryer for longer,  That is a good thing.  Well, I mean that yeah, being moist is good thing to an extent, but,, not suffocating in your own mucus.

speaker 0:   0:00
Okay so to that we add  zinc.  The thing about zinc, is it has to be paired with copper at about a 10 to 1 ratio.  Zinc sulfate is really not very absorbable, so we recommend zinc picolinate or even elemental zinc.  Still  make sure it's paired with copper.  So certain minerals have to be paired, and that's just the way it goes for a lot of reasons. If you don't take copper with zinc you will then become copper deficient. Zinc will push out the copper and then you will suffer the consequences of being copper deficient, which has a lot to do with vision.  I know one thing is that no one mineral is just responsible for one thing, you'd be causing a  pretty big problem.

speaker 0:   0:00
Okay, so we have zinc. We have the vitamin D3. We have the NAC.  Why would some of these things work?  There is a treatment out there that is a combination of hydroxychoroquine.  Hydroxycholrooquine is used for malaria.   So why would you use a malaria medication?  They're doing this in France and two other countries that have actually started report  their results, and it's pretty outstanding.  It's almost up to 100% of those in critical need  were given hydroxychoroquine and zpack , which is an antibiotic. It's a respiratory antibiotic given for bronchitis and and respiratory symptoms. So when  they put these two together, it was a real win.  Back to the hydroxychloroquine.   The reason it works so much is it punches a hole in the virus,  the cell wall of the virus that lets zinc in.  Zinc is really good for your immune system if it can get to the inside of the cell.  It really can't get to the inside of the cell by itself as an ion.  So it's nice it's in the serum, but it's gotta get into the cell, and it's an anti-RNA replicator, which is what you need to stop the virus from replicating.  So the hydroxidchloroquine pops a hole in it specifically for zinc ions.  Isn't that impressive? So having  more zinc will probably be more effective. But  when I am recommending that people take zinc, I'm not so much recommending that they take more of it  so that you  have a surplus of zinc. That's not the objective.  It's that most people are pretty zinc deficient, so we're making sure the at least you're not zink deficient.  So at least there's enough zinc around that some of that will by osmosis or some of the  minor back channel ways, we'll say, and gets into the cells and helps sequester some of the RNA replication of the virus.  With these two medications, hydroxychloroquine and zpack, that these two together were incredible and you add zinc to that, it's over the top.  So it's a real winner. So hearing about the hydroxychloroquine and the zpack combination really made me think that, zinc is player here.  So,  have some zinc.

speaker 0:   0:00
My history was zinc over the last two decades of working with patients is, it was all a rage about two decades ago.  It sort of stayed in that sort of seasonal way of things you could do.  However, I never saw a great benefit of it.  You know, they had throat lozengers and you could take it orally.  Of course, Then it wasn't anybody. who said I got over my cold or flu and half the time or something, I just I never saw that.   So it was one of those things that you took on faith. You gather some studies out there that we're hoping that we're good and you continue doing it and people would take it. So I didn't see any ' Wow, this is great',   nor did anybody die.  It's one of those things I do think is vital. I do think your vitamin vitamin D3 is vital. I think your vitamin C is very important,  and NAC is something that just helps respiratorily.  That's probably the number one thing I see people taking to go 'Wow, I really cleared up. I feel great', and it gave him a way to breathe again.

speaker 0:   0:00
So,  let me go over a few other the things you should know about in terms of symptoms and so on.   I was looking for the number of days  it took to become infectious and so on.  It's usually about three days.  The idea back to the 14 days of  settling at home is that if everybody actually went to the home and we also had a mandatory worldwide 'lock down' , except for those vital services for 14 days is that by three days, we'll find out who's already infected. They would then start showing their symptomology, and they would either  stay at home and just sort of weather it out like a regular flu.  Those who had to go to the hospital go to the hospital, and those were obviously critical to go to the hospital. So right in those two weeks and actually the 1st 3 days,  you're able to identify who was  at risk, who was progressing into needing care and who is progressing into needing critical care.  By the end of the 14 days, all the people that initially felt symptoms would be over it. Those in the hospital that were not  critical, they were taken care of.  They'd be over it because they're isolated, and then you're left with basically those who are in critical care still in the hospital getting what they need,  That would reduce the number of beds that are required.  When we don't do all this, do this together, it's a problem, and it could last  for months and months and months.  This is basically the answer that brought the 1918 pandemic to a close faster, because by the time the third wave showed up, they were getting that isolation was a big deal. 

speaker 0:   0:00
My take is that with some of these things you could do at home, it's surprising, by the way, how many of these places were basically out of the vitamin D3 or NAC and Zinc. I think these are the common ones people know about.  But see what you can find. Remember, it's zinc picolinate.  Vitamin C really does matter. Just do it. It's oral or it's buffered.  If you take a lot of vitamin C, you may get a burning in your stomach because it is asorbicc acid.  Let that be the minor part of the whole situation, and you should be good to go.  Keep up your fluids.  Make sure to keep up your fluids.  Why are you  gonna keep up your fluids?  On the very least, if you don't, you'll get kidney stones-that's not associate with vitamin C.  Keep up your fluids because it just washes things out.  Goes out with urine and stool, so you need to stay hydrated if you can.

speaker 0:   0:00
That brings me to the end of listing my protocol of things that I would require for anybody who came into my office saying 'This is a situation. What can I do?'  ou have your vitamin C. You have your zinc. You have your vitamin D3. You have you're NAC.  If you're about essential oils, the one thing we would have patients do at home is they would get some fresh thyme, which  you can  buyat thethe groceries grocery store.   Get a pot of water, and  bring it to a boil of maybe just an inch or so deep. Take that hot water off the stove. (There's no  cooking.) Throw in your sprigs of thyme and you would put a towel over the back your head and you would try to get your head down into the pan as close as you could. You know so that you're burning your nostrils from the steam. But what you're doing is you are steaming the thyme and the essential oils you get of thyme. there is no time specific for this. I heard oregano was good, too, as well as  eucalyptus. But thyme is the one  and this is what you can do. It was a big deal for a lot of people, so you can steam time.

speaker 0:   0:00
So with that, I think you got a lot of things you could  do. I hope you do some of them. And I hope you do understand my connection of why low carb is really, really, really important, you know?  So just start doing that now and bring down your blood sugars  by dropping carbs. What?  I've also talked to you talk to you about getting processed foods out of your freaking house.  They have no purpose being in your house. They are just gonna cause you to go in the wrong direction. So get rid of your processed foods.  Just eat strictly whole foods.  You don't have to be like me, which is primarily meats and fish and so on. Pretty high protein and fat that that comes with the protein. For the most part, I'm fine with that. But just have it be whole foods, not processed foods or have your salads. And, yes, have them be organic if you can get them organic and let that be your food while you're in house. If you start resorting to a lot of convenience food or 'emotional eating' , you're really just opening up a door to addiction. And that's the addiction of carbohydrates, processed food, carbohydrates at that. So you're getting a lot of other things that will   compromise your immune system. So get those out. It's a carb reference, a carb recommendation as well, Right? Drop the carbs. That sort of goes without sayin.  Get the processed foods out. That's the way it should be, and enjoy  whole foods.

speaker 0:   0:00
Try not to drink too much alcohol. Clearly, when you're all boxed in, whether you're with kids or without kids with your parents or your grandparent's, some is okay too much definitely will tank your immune system. All right, so till next time, take care of yourself.  Bye .

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Hi, this is Dr Goldkamp. I just wanted to encourage you to send in your questions, too. drgoldkamp@ketonaturopath.com  Many of you have, and so what I've done with these questions that gotten back to mostly people I email. But some of the questions that were so good. And if they're overlapping to other questions, I would combine them and try to put that into the topic of a podcast, either via one of the micro top Exeter covered in an interview. As you know, we cover a lot of topics and any given interview or some of my own sort of reporting, if you will, on some of these issues. So please keep the questions coming. Feel free to send in an email and I will get back to you. One thing I want to say. A number of questions have come in in which I've given this answer and the email didn't work. So just make sure that you're receiving at the same email that you sent it in. And I think that might have been the difficulty.  I look forward to your questions. I just wanted to make sure that you knew that I'm open to answer your questions. And I think this world of Keto is not just black and white. You know, it's nice that it's simple, but it's not simple for some.. We started way back when history, evolution, epilepsy and so on, so forth, you know, now we're seeing some tremendous overlap in various mental disorders, schizophrenia or neurological disorders that are not just epilepsy and also just for people and losing weight. It's sometimes pretty complicated for them to engage in Keto, and so they need some help. And so that's the whole point of please. That's what I think I'm doing is exploring the world of why are there other factors? So in exploring some of those other factors, we've covered addiction. We've covered hormones, have covered nutritional deficiencies. We've covered certain metabolic lab results and we'll go further. We'll even get into the genome and aspect. So these are all just contributions that make for an obstacle for some people to engage easily in the ketogenic diet. This my belief and these are things that I've discovered, and I think other people have discovered some of these things but not ever put them together. So stay listening. Send in your questions and I will definitely get back to you.

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