We love the common sense approach of Riordan Clinic. When we read their blog, we had to share it. Here is the link to the entire piece by Ron Hunninghake, MD - https://riordanclinic.org/2020/12/staying-well-in-the-time-of-covid/ Below is a "meat and potatoes" excerpt 😊 COVID-19 and Complex Chronic Illness Against this modern backdrop of several worldwide disease epidemics, including obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, degenerative arthritis, depression, and dementia – enter the coronavirus. SARS-CoV-2 is the virus, COVID-19 is the disease. The critical point here is that the virus is not the disease. The disease varies in severity and lethality depending upon the relative health, or lack of health, in the afflicted patient. In late September of this year, the CDC estimated that 40% of SARS-CoV-2...
...people don't die of influenza, per se, but predominately of secondary pneumonia augmented by other underlying health problems." - Ralph Campbell, MD
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When your adrenal glands become exhausted so will you. After all, your adrenal glands help you deal with stress. They are very vulnerable to fatigue given they are responsible for your fight-or-flight response. Generally the more stress you have in your life, the more vitamin C your adrenal glands will need to operate effectively.
