Jim Puplava: How I Survived Covid at Age 70

September 13, 2021 – You may have noticed that our main host, Jim Puplava, was missing from our podcast for multiple weeks in a row. Well, in today's show, Jim shares his experience with Covid and what he did to recover even though he is in a high-risk category at 70 years old.

Mentioned in today's show:

• Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of COVID-19 Infection: A Systematic Review, Meta-analysis, and Trial Sequential Analysis to Inform Clinical Guidelines

  • Conclusions: Moderate-certainty evidence finds that large reductions in COVID-19 deaths are possible using ivermectin. Using ivermectin early in the clinical course may reduce numbers progressing to severe disease. The apparent safety and low cost suggest that ivermectin is likely to have a significant impact on the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic globally.

• Database of all ivermectin COVID-19 studies
• Ivermectin for COVID-19: real-time meta analysis of 63 studies
• COVID-19 early treatment: real-time analysis of 937 studies

• Why COVID-19 is more deadly in people with obesity—even if they're young

  • Since the pandemic began, dozens of studies have reported that many of the sickest COVID-19 patients have been people with obesity. In recent weeks, that link has come into sharper focus as large new population studies have cemented the association and demonstrated that even people who are merely overweight are at higher risk. For example, in the first metaanalysis of its kind, published on 26 August in Obesity Reviews, an international team of researchers pooled data from scores of peer-reviewed papers capturing 399,000 patients. They found that people with obesity who contracted SARS-CoV-2 were 113% more likely than people of healthy weight to land in the hospital, 74% more likely to be admitted to an ICU, and 48% more likely to die... In addition, exercising and, separately, losing even a little weight can improve the metabolic health of a person with obesity, and, in doing so, reduce their chances of developing severe COVID-19 if they become infected, says Stephen O'Rahilly, a physician-scientist who directs the MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit at the University of Cambridge. "If you're 300 pounds, even losing a modest amount is likely to have a disproportionate benefit on how well you do with coronavirus infection. You don't have to become a slim Jim to benefit."

• Joe Rogan Rants About False Media Coverage After Taking Ivermectin for COVID: ‘Do I Have to Sue CNN?’