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His videos seem informative but I worry that he has sort of a bias for supplementation and holistic medicine. His videos lately seem to purport that this virus can be handled by mostly OTC supplements.



> that this virus can be handled by mostly OTC supplements

This is simply not true. Most of his recent[1] videos have discussed his hypothesis about how the virus may be causing oxidative stress when it abuses the ACE2 receptor, and how this might explain why some people are asymptomatic and others people need ventilators or die. Most people can handle the dramatic increase in reactive oxides, while those of us with diabetes/etc may have already spent some of the protective capacity and may not the necessary "defense in depth".

This is speculation about the mechanism causing the damage; the closest I've heard in those videos to anything related to how the virus "can be handled" is some high-level speculation that can basically be summarized as "if the problem is oxidative stress, maybe we should investigate trying to mitigate the damage with antioxidants?" That would probably be in addition to existing treatments, not some kind of "holistic medicine" nonsense that thinks you can replace the usual treatments with vitamins.

[1] I'm assuming you're referring to the "Coronavirus Pandemic Update" videos on the channel since the [1] link above (update 63).




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