Harvard Researcher Tells You Everything You Need to Know About Coronavirus Pandemic | David Sinclair

and we're playing a game that's a balance between staying in the house and wrecking the economy or coming out of the house and uh and basically killing more people hey everybody welcome to health theory today's guest is dr david sinclair he's an acclaimed harvard professor and researcher who has taken on the task of synthesizing as much of the scientific data coming out surrounding covid19 as humanly possible he also researched and wrote about pandemics in his groundbreaking book lifespan and was named by time magazine as one of the most influential people on the planet and while he is very careful to point out that he is not a medical doctor his analysis of the current crisis is being shared far and wide and uh that is where i want to start so help us begin to tease out fact from fiction man i think that would really help people hey tom well there's a lot of uh a lot of misinformation for every one fact there's another 10 uh you know bs stories out there what first thing would be this is not a this is not a hoax it's real this is not a fire drill is anybody still calling this a hoax well i think on twitter that there's a lot of crazies out there saying that this is uh not as bad as it as everyone says it is it is as bad as everyone says so i want to get into the weeds a little bit just because i find this the nature of a virus to be something that i don't think i fully understand i don't think a lot of people fully understand so uh to start i want to start with what i think is the craziest thing that i've heard on this topic but it's being shared by people that i consider really intelligent because people can sound so credible so the craziest thing that i've heard on kobit 19 is that it is created by 5g and so and and i was like uh that sounds crazy to me and the um the person was like no no you got to watch this video and they say it so compellingly but i was like ah this doesn't sound right it's not i've watched probably some of the same videos uh it's complete crap actually please don't believe it i mean first of all we're getting much more radiation naturally than 5g is giving any cell um plus the the that's not a good correlation you know you could say oh you know the bats are breathing so breathing causes this you know there's a lot of correlations you can draw so it's it's not from a wuhan lab either uh it's not from a snake it's almost certainly from a bat maybe through a pangolin the spiny anteater um but we can trace this it's it's simple science we can read normal geneticist i can read the dna of the virus i can see that so i want to get into that so one i've heard you say that before so i want to understand what is a virus and what would human fingerprints on a manufactured virus look like so let's start with what are viruses the virus is a sub-life form it doesn't have all the components to live but it's got enough instructions that once it's inside it another species cell it can instruct that cell to make more copies of itself and break out um and it's evolved over you know potentially 450 million years these coronaviruses have been around for a very long time infecting dinosaurs and infecting all the mammals on planet so these are ancient formidable foes but they actually have one weakness which is their envelope so i've said that you shouldn't think of the virus like a cannonball because you most people draw it like this cannonball it's actually more like a bubble that you can pop and that's why washing your hands is so simple soap will kill this thing now what's on the outside is uh little proteins that make it prickly it's called the spike protein and that spike is what engages with our throat and our lung cells and once it engages it tricks the cell into taking it inside the cell like a trojan horse would all right so i wanna i wanna go step by step so i i've often wondered okay if this thing gets on me can it wiggle like do they locomote or is it like if it hits my cheek is it going to crawl into my eye or is it only going to get there if i put my finger in my eye like how does it work yeah if it gets into your uh on your face uh the only way it's going to get into your body is if you move it there and that's because the skin has dead cells and so it can't it can't like penetrate the layer of dead cells to get to living tissue correct correct so we have keratinized dead cells and these cannot be penetrated by the virus even if they were to get into one of these cells they're not going to re respawn because those dead cells are not going to make more copies it has to be a currently surviving living dividing healthy cell and so the only way to get that is either your eye your nose a mouth or some other orifice the way to think of this somebody described it as you know when you get um what's a glitter glitter sticks to everything and it stays you'll have glitter on you that's what the virus is like interesting okay so that's a little scary is it as immobile as a piece of glitter meaning it will only move if i move it correct but but that doesn't mean if it lands on the back of your throat it's going to stay there right over a period of a few days it's going to get washed down slowly and spread down if you're unlucky into your lungs but it's not going to walk there it's going to be carried by the fluid in your throat that's interesting so i always assume that what was happening was it was actually getting into my bloodstream is it not doing that it gets into a what i'll call a topical cell you probably have a much better name for it but something right on the surface it's getting into that cell it's dividing and then does is the virus somehow still also in a position where it can be brushed down lower yeah right so these are epithelial cells in our lungs um and we also have endothelial cells which are in our blood vessels and all of these types of these both these type of cells have a lot of the uh the lock that spiked protein key inserts into so they're the most susceptible but can it get into the blood absolutely can get into the blood but it's easier to just wash down into your lungs than to go via your bloodstream but once it's in your bloodstream and that seems to happen to a majority of patients you'll actually find that it can inflame your gut and your heart particularly and that's that's pretty scary because if it gets to your heart especially if you're elderly that's when it can cause uh well potentially lethal problems so going back to what the virus actually is um is it is a it's a strand of rna well as genetic material is rna which is a really ancient form of genetic material and rna is is very similar to dna except it's typically single stranded it's one piece of a molecule whereas our dna forms as a double helix like a zipper most people have heard of the double helixes it's two but what that means is that if rna copying makes an error and this is happening pretty often in this virus it's locked in and it just accumulates an error after an error and we're seeing it mutate every few days across the planet and we're getting new strains we have 20 different types across the planet now now fortunately these changes uh even though they're locked in they they're not all in the most dangerous genes actually the most dangerous gene is the one that encodes the protein codes for the protein that's on surface because remember that's the one if it changes too much it could render vaccines ineffective or even come back to get us after we're immune meaning you're you're only immune to one type well you know think about the flu you get immunity to the flu but it can come back in different forms because it's changed enough that our bodies don't recognize it and there's a chance albeit small that it will change enough over the next 12 to 18 months to be different look different enough to the immune system and that spike protein right now only has one from from the wuhan strain and there's a new one that's taking actually taking over in the u.s and europe but unfortunately that's only one change i estimate that you need probably five or more changes for it to really be a concern so i'll ask why are you optimistic then isn't this something that's likely to be problematic cyclically every year uh well it it's probably going to be cyclical probably not every year but these viruses exist in the animal world the same way the flu exists in in birds and that's where it comes from every year so what we're seeing is every five to ten years coronaviruses come out of the animal kingdom and get us and it could be that right you know right now the virus is mutating in bats it's mutating in pangolins probably and other species so we're we're in a world now where we're so so up against nature that it's inevitable that we'll come back whether or not this current strain that's that started in china is going to keep going around the globe for a few years i'm doubtful because it's not mutating so fast that it's probably going to happen but then again we've never had a pandemic where billions of people have had this unstable virus go through the population and every person is an experiment right you you it's mutating inside your body and if it hits the right the right genetic combination where it's either more infectious or it's more lethal you can spread that yeah yeah so all right let's stay on this point for a minute because i want to make sure that i really understand so um the common cold the common cold is mutating and that's why i keep getting it over and over or are there a hundred different things that seem like the common cold and i just keep getting each unique one so the common cold is either a rhinovirus usually or in some cases a different type of coronavirus and those are coming out of the animal world too they're not continually circling the globe in humans they do die down over summer and then will come out in a different form from the animal world that's really interesting okay so um common cold has a few variations it's re-emerging uh via some sort of mutation process in animals so we get it in this yearly cycle but it's really a yearly cycle born of our interaction with animals uh now we have this strand that's it's mutating faster it's really sneaky in its way if you've got four to five days roughly where you may not show any symptoms but you're highly contagious super genius if you're a virus great strategy it's not so lethal like ebola that it burns out so now it's you know going to keep going for a while so my question is how are we going to get rid of this is is the only way to get rid of this that it will truly die off due to changes in in temperature and humidity like the like influence yeah it's unfortunate that this is worse than influenza with the flu it dies out after a cycle through the northern and southern hemisphere it eventually we get enough immunity to this that uh it doesn't survive and the same thing is going to happen exactly uh but that there's only two outcomes in in this world scenario either we all or enough of us get it so it's roughly 50 of us have gotten it and that's going to be terrible because you know how many at least half a percent of the people maybe a percent will die or the vaccine arrives in time to prevent all of that and we're playing a game that's a balance between staying in the house and wrecking the economy or coming out of the house and uh and basically killing more people and it looks like you know either of those options is not gonna work for the for the world so we're gonna have to do this dance in the middle ground of hunkering down going out behaving differently and perhaps hunkering down later in the year if it comes back like it might be doing in china or it's early days but you know that's what you need to watch if you want to see our future pay attention to china okay what i'm trying to wrap my head around is we are so we've got herd immunity which enough people get sick you now have the antibodies you're now fine but you've got a disease that is mutating so insanely quickly because like the more i hear about this i am a way optimistic dude even on this um but it's making me go could this be infectious enough mutate quickly enough have the delayed reaction enough that it doesn't go away i hope you hope that's not the case i mean it's not a zero chance it's just slight chance but it's scary enough to at least be talking about it and paying attention to what is coming out of labs that are looking at the genetic sequence of the of the samples there have been at least a thousand viruses sequenced right now it's sequencing is the term for reading their genetic code and there are there are a lot of changes that are going on but right now most of them are just in places in the virus that make no difference and only one that concerns me we should definitely pay attention because think about this tom the the vaccine is being developed using the original uh strain from the chinese that came out of wuhan back in early january but the vaccines are now getting out of date right we already have viruses that are already different than the original strain and like you say they're evolving and becoming more distant from the original one so the vaccine makers you know are behind the times already a little bit but i'm still optimistic that it's not going to change so much that the vaccines will be rendered ineffective but they might be similar to the flu in the sense that they won't work as well and they won't be 100 effective yeah how the cat and mouse game will be played with the vaccines is is really interesting and this is an area where it really starts to get super optimistic not just what you were talking about before where it's like hey we've shown there's a really robust response in mice but something you've talked about before which is for the first time ever in human history the entire planet is focused on one thing um talk to me a little bit about that talk to me about the way data is being shared um and and some things that give you cause for hope yeah well one of the big thing that things that's happened to us as scientists is we're normally fighting we're all normally we're trying to show who's the smartest person in the room what's what's that's our job basically to prove how smart we are it's a bit of a sick profession but what i've seen is people are not worrying about that anymore and forming chat groups and using apps to all come together so i study aging normally in human health especially with chronic diseases and also infectious diseases somewhat these students of mine as well as others in this field have come together it's called the aging research community and they're giving each other talks every few days you get another talk from either a student or a phd um or a professor and that never happened before and what's great about that is i'm certain that this kind of an attitude will be continued even after this all goes away and we're learning to come together actually being forced to learn how to come together uh in these very competitive fields the most people that i see 95 of us are really coming together in a way i haven't seen ever before and if you just look at the amount of effort that's going to finding treatments and vaccines we're in up to 55 drugs being tested around the world immediately that could help us within the next few months these are drugs typically that are on the market already for other things and the vaccine were about 40 uh global tests so this is something i've never seen and the fda in america you know usually they're so slow in improving things they've changed their attitude they're looking at uh drugs such as hydroxychloroquine or known as plaquenil and i think most of us have heard about that how that was at least published by a couple of japanese papers that it could help with covert 19 symptoms even though it's not proven to work the fda last week approved its use in hospitals now that would never have happened before they would have said show us phase 2 phase three or at least a lot of evidence that it would work but there are proving things without 100 percent evidence that they actually work which i think is great because they're finally balancing risk reward and when the risk super high right now people are dying they're saying okay this drug is pretty safe it's not going to do damage doctors you're allowed to use it yeah that that is probably the most interesting thing to come out of this is um just to see everybody rally around something um i know when you were talking to peter diamandis he was saying you know i always thought it was going to be an alien invasion or something like that an asteroid impact that would get the whole world to come together so man i wouldn't wish this on any of us obviously but the fact that people are responding in a beautiful way there's so much heroism with people on the front lines and going into hospitals and it's really cool to see yeah well let me just say a few words about how predictable this was um it to us biologists it was certainly not going to be an asteroid it was 99.9 going to be a virus and probably a coronavirus the experts were were telling us you know it wasn't just bill gates right it was virologists i saw a wonderful ted talk in 2010 by a guy that discovered coronaviruses and bats in asia and he said this is where it's probably going to start and that was you know 10 years ago and so this has been coming even in my book i lifespan i talk about becoming pandemic and how we have to get rid ready for it because if we're going to extend our lifespans there's no point doing that if a virus is going to knock 10 years off our average lifespan um so this was coming and we should have been much more ready for this and when we're all said and done we have to be much more ready for the next one because it's not a question of if it's when um and just today i was reading up about a virus that i recall came out of australia um you may or may not have seen the news it's actually we've had a whole bunch of outbreaks uh nine at current count on the east coast of australia these are bat viruses uh it's called henro viruses i believe and what they what happens is the bats give it to horses and then the horse owners catch it and this is also a lethal disease that also gets up in the brain and can cause dizziness a coma and death and these have been coming out every few years fortunately the animals the horses have a vaccine so that's one way to do it if it's in domestic animals you can vaccinate the animals with bats it's obviously harder because they're wild animals but we can do a couple of things one thing that the chinese government did that was great which should help is they banned the trade of wild animals now so you can't go buy bats at a market you can't get pangolins and snakes so that but it's a bit late they did that in february after the horse had bolted so to speak and the second thing you can do is monitor the environment you can to see are these viruses mutating and test if they grow in human cells and we knew from bats that if you took the bat coronavirus or one of them and put it on human cells um the same ones that are in our throat they would multiply so we knew this was coming it was just a matter of time so those are the things to do and one of the things that i'm proud of is a group that i've been working with and i co-founded a company called arcbio and they've developed uh pretty rapid tests to be able to monitor the environment and people for what viruses they have in their body they make kits that detect the genome of pathogens and it doesn't have to just be a virus it can be anything that's in the human body or an animal and they have a database of all known pathogens in humans so what they do is they read the genetic material that's in your bloodstream or in your nose they take out all human dna because that's not as interesting and they look for what's left behind and they can see any type of virus any bacteria any fungus and then say okay that's what you've got it's version 8 of the coronavirus or it's a bacterium that's brand new and this is how we think you should kill it and that's being sold to hospitals right now interesting and is there a way like do they have the data now where they could be used as a covid19 test yes yes and this is another heartwarming story just another example of american ingenuity they stopped working on everything else and everyone still working because they're essential to uh to healthcare they're all working on a rapid covert 19 test um it actually was pretty easy to convert the test all it was was a tweet to the software and they were ready so then is this something like i want to get tested every day i'm willing to prick my finger take blood do whatever because i had really sort of light symptoms um i don't know maybe a week and a half ago and if i could have tested myself then i would have for sure are we at that point now where um you guys are able to mass produce this yeah so the answer is uh mostly yes um there are three types of tests there's the one i just described which is the most accurate uh but it's also the most expensive um it requires you to donate some blood and give it to a hospital you can't do that at home unless you have a dna sequencing machine which you would send back probably uh a few hundred thousand dollars so no most people don't have that yet that's that's one there are two other types one is the one that you always hear about it's called a pcr test it's the one that they they use throughout the world and that requires a box like that which is maybe five thousand dollars and what that's doing is amplifying up the virus uh the dn the rna in the virus to take five copies and make it five million uh and then they can read that and uh get a rough estimate of how much virus you have in your blood the problem with that test though is it doesn't detect mutants right if it's changing you'll actually miss that and then there's a middle test which i haven't talked about yet that's what you can do at home um i think the the fda discourages it i don't think it's yet banned and what that is it's similar to the way a pregnancy test works you put a drop of blood in a little hole and uh you wait until you get if you get two bands you've probably got antibodies against the virus why would they ever ban that uh well i i hope they don't i mean often what happens is uh you don't want people making medical decisions uh without any guidance from a doctor uh and remember originally these dna tests from 23andme were also uh stopped because doctors don't like people doing medicine in their in their homes so one thing i've heard you talk about pretty powerfully um you were the first person that gave me a vision of what um being prepared truly is what is your vision for real preparedness because this i think people's analysis of this being sort of a dry run in that it's it's horrible for sure but it doesn't have a 30 mortality rate like it could um so what does truly being prepared for that pandemic look like oh yeah well we've got to prevent this kind of thing from happening it's just too expensive so what we need to do is to have what i've called the bio force similar to the air force navy an army a group that is highly trained and coordinates with the other military forces that is number one the second is have whole armies of researchers ready to go with new technologies for vaccines because that needs to go much quicker next time uh and then third i would have a global surveillance of viruses both in the animal world and in humans um including perhaps anonymously detecting temperature variations i saw a really interesting company that's got a bluetooth thermometer and they can they can see where the outbreak is coming just based on yeah so that's the future you we don't want to be blind to this i mean doing tests on people physically is a huge waste of uh well it's a waste of time right literally because if we knew immediately when someone had a fever in real time that would be the way to go so i think that's the next generation of what we have to do yeah that that to me starts to get really interesting when i first heard you talk about the bio force i was like whoa that actually makes a lot of sense we've got the air force we've got the navy um in preparation for times of war right you don't try to generate the air force once you've been attacked so that to me is is really interesting you said at the top though that this is too expensive um do you think that people's mentality is going to shift from this yeah it has to i mean the world cannot afford to do this on a regular basis um you know how many trillions of dollars are we talking about no one's even putting a number on this yet it's too big to even speculate um for much less you could do what i just said and that would prevent the next pandemic you know and also you can you can prevent environmental disturbances the uh one of the main reasons we're seeing these viruses come out of the natural world is that we push too far into nature and we need to try and allow this some distance between wild animals and humans that's interesting how would you ever do that like how would you create a dmz between us and animals because either we're going to go up to the edge of their territory or they're going to come to the edge of ours like there are coyotes in manhattan so it's like if kaido is like [ __ ] it we're just going to roll up uh into one of the most densely populated cities on the planet i imagine like if we say okay we're gonna retreat right that the the animals are just gonna come right up to that edge and then if we retreat more they'll they'll come into our space again so um how do you really create a dmz right well i suppose you could say the cat's already out of the bag but we've got to do something um the first thing you can do is monitor the the environment that's what i'm suggesting the second is what china did which is ban the harvesting of these wild animals in the first place we've got to stop that across the planet it's not just china there's other parts of the world where that where they routinely go into forests and kill animals i was in africa this year and was actually it was quite heartwarming to see that they've stopped uh the slaughter of gorillas but they were very nearly wiped out it is possible and what you need to do and using that as an example in uganda is give incentives for the locals to earn money from the wild animals in a national park so you you put a boundary you have armed guards who patrol that spot or across the boundary and you shoot people that that actually disobey it's what they do for the gorillas and it's working really well um but there's a tourist trade so when tourism gets back up we've got to encourage people to go to places of as tourists not uh to go buy ivory and meat and this kind of crazy stuff that's uh you know it's a simple uh answer to a very complex problem and i'm sure it's not going to be easy but we have to do something because we just can't go through this routinely you know so you when you were talking earlier about things starting in animals and coming to humans it does beg the question what is starting in humans like if animals and we are just another animal so if animals are out in the wild incubating things what is it that humans are incubating right now most of the the pathogens that we get are direct from humans unfortunately they don't mutate that fast so measles is still around with us because it doesn't mutate itself to death like these viruses tend to do um that's whoa whoa stop there so um you're saying that oftentimes mutations are self-destructive yes interesting interesting okay so that's that's a bit of an optimistic way to look at so it's possible that covid19 which i guess technically is the disease the coronavirus is going to it could because it mutates so fast actually cause a problem for itself without a doubt most of these changes are going to be negative for the virus but it's evolved to be highly mutated because on mutagenic it changes its genes all the time for a very good reason because if you just get stuck with one species like measles has if your species goes extinct you're screwed right so the coronaviruses have been around for forever essentially you know half a billion years because they can get out of their heart species and spread through the animal kingdom very clever right so but the way to do that is to constantly be changing and roll the dice and jump across and that goes back to this what i've heard referred to as a lock-in key and that's the spike that you're talking about like what is that process yeah well it does two things one is it it knocks on the door and then the cell lets it in stupidly but it does and the other way to do that is to bind so tightly that it's like two bubbles hitting each other and then they merge right so those are the two ways but you're exactly right the the spike protein is a key and the lock that it engages is called ace2 ace2 which is no coincidence found on the airways uh the exposed surfaces of our body that's a that's by quote-unquote design the virus has found a weakness there's another protein called dpp4 which mers binds to another cell surface protein so these viruses are very clever they've honed in on these proteins that are found in abundance in the throat and in the nose so one thing that i found interesting about viruses because of course the first question when you start to hear okay it's hijacking the cell um why why is it that it always makes us do bad things to spread you know it cough you feel terrible but the reality is there actually are a gaggle of viruses that are in certainly our digestive tract i would assume there are some in the mouth probably the nose the vagina um anywhere where we have like an ecosystem um that actually are beneficial do are there some examples of viruses that are working for us why do we need them how do they help uh well there are thousands of viruses out there so they're all over us they're on our skin like you say they're in the gut um as far as i know they're not helping us that much um it's the bacteria are definitely helpful because they metabolize things and they digest our food and they even keep the dangerous bacteria off our skin but i think viruses as i understand it are mostly just hitchhikers and don't do us harm it's only very rare ones like this one that actually uh end up killing us um so i would be remiss not to ask while we have you what should people be doing to protect themselves um to you know maximize the strength of their immunity to stay safe in this time other obviously than physical distancing right so the first thing i would say is if you smoke stop immediately that's number one hopefully all your viewers and listeners don't smoke but that's that's the biggest risk you can inflict on your body in the in the covert 19 era is to be a smoker but you can actually recover pretty quickly if you stop so now would be the time for those of you who those of us who are not smokers you still can optimize your body you want to do some aerobics as it's called or high-intensity interval training if you're just in an apartment you can still do what are they jumping jacks tom what what are we calling star jumps that's the minimum get your heart moving you probably have noticed i'm actually standing up for this interview i really try to avoid sitting down because you know i'm burning calories i'm getting more flexible my body is much better off than sitting when i wrote my book for two years uh i i could barely walk after that my muscles were so degraded in my hips so that brings another point you want to be doing flexibility and hip hinge exercises in general um especially as you get older uh but specifically for the virus um you don't want to be low in iron so if you typically have some anemia make sure you're not anemic because you need your blood to be able to bring oxygen levels up um i would focus on vitamin d now there's really good evidence from studies and doctor's advice that vitamin d will keep your immune system in tip-top shape so i'm taking two and a half thousand units a day of that and so is my family i eat i still eat less often than most people i'm still skipping breakfast i think a little bit of fasting during the day can only have benefits for your immune system as long as you don't overdo it and stop eating for a whole week um i'm also um trying to keep my blood sugar levels low um you know not too low that i'm passing out but what some chinese scientists have published is that the virus can also attack red blood cells where you have iron of course carries oxygen and it's also thought that you can damage your red blood cells the hemoglobin by having too much sugar and in fact if you have a lot of blood so when you get a test for type 2 diabetes what they're measuring is a thing called hba1c and the hb stands for hemoglobin and the it's basically sugars attached to your hemoglobin which have been speculated to make your blood red blood cells more susceptible to the virus so in abundance of caution and if you have type 2 diabetes it certainly can hurt you and will probably help you to eat less often during the day i still have really great dinners i eat normally and i have a glass of red wine typically with dinner so i'm not always eating carrots so i'm with you you've got to live a little in life but now would be the time to get into shape i do focus on plants i try to eat plants that have certain nutrients a lot of nutrients there are molecules i don't know if tom if you've heard of xenohermesis before it's a long word i'm very familiar with hormesis i don't know the difference between xenohormesis and oremesis though well you can blame me because because i co-invented that name xeno just means between species and so what that means is if you stress your food they're going to make molecules that give you a health benefit instead of you having to physically stress your own body by diet and exercise and so colored foods if you've got really deep dark blue blueberries or kale these are the foods that especially if they've been plucked when they're dehydrated or exposed to too much sun we'll have a lot more of these plant defense molecules that actually activate our own defenses we've shown over the last 20 years so try to do that it's very hard though when we don't have a lot of fresh food at home yeah i was just going to say peter tia gave advice that basically assume every bit of food that comes into your house has the virus on it and so if you can't scrub it was his words then you probably should need it so i've given up blueberries strawberries um which makes me very sad because i eat blueberries almost every day i've traded it in for bananas and apples apples obviously you can wash with soap and water bananas have their own skin just don't [ __ ] eat it um where do you come down on that do you think that it would survive on berries is water enough to burst the bubble of the virus or do you actually need soap uh so i have a procedure i leave it out of the fridge for about a day and then and then it should be good to go i haven't worried that much about the food i think we have to worry much more about pushing buttons on elevators and touching surfaces in public spaces that's where you're going to get it probably one area uh i want to tell you about is humidity because this was a surprise to me so i always thought that humidity was bad for viruses or bad bad for catching colds put it that way and i always imagine that when you breathe out those little droplets that you can catch if it's nice and dry they'll evaporate and poof they're dead but i researched this and then talked to some experts over in europe and they said that's dead wrong actually that that what you want in your household environment is really good in humidity which is about 45 to 50 relative humidity which you typically don't have in winter or a typical house is about 24 25 in the us yeah so why is that well some of the studies go back many years what they show is if you take i think it was guinea pigs and flow virus through guinea pigs and guinea pigs are a very good model for human airways if the humidity is at the middle range that i mentioned they didn't catch it typically and if it was really dry or really really wet like above 60 that's when they caught it and then other studies that i thought were really convincing is if you look at schools depending on the humidity of the school the virus spreads faster or slower so i'm now convinced based on the evidence that high humidity or at least making sure it's not too low is a good thing so i recommend people buy humidifiers for their bedroom if they have a very dry climate and is that because it's keeping the mucus layer intact exactly because this mucous layer it'll trap the virus and actually we have enzymes in our body that that can destroy viruses if they get trapped in the mucus but if the mucous level or the layer that's on our throats and in our lungs is really crispy and dry then that won't work whoo well this stuff definitely gets complicated all right so you gave us a lot of cool things we can do if you were going to make one recommendation you're only going to make one change to improve your health in this time what change would you have people make move in one word just move because the the reason most people are very sick go on a ventilator and even die is a lack of oxygen so if you move you'll you'll actually grow new blood vessels in your muscle you'll have more red blood cells in your body um you'll be fitter and you'll have a greater chance of getting through this without such strong symptoms love that dude where can people connect with you where are you putting out this amazing information that i've seen coming out of your world uh so i put out newsletters i put most of the information that we talked about today in these newsletters that are found on a website called lifespanbook.com and you just sign up there and you get the old versions of the newsletter actually they're not that old then they came out in the last 48 hours and the previous versions as well so your lifespanbook.com and on social media like you are thank you man i appreciate that very much and thank you for helping people separate the fact from fiction get the information that they need keep them healthy um i am very excited to see the world return to normal so we can keep talking about anti-aging stuff but this was really really incredible david i can't thank you enough for your time man much appreciated hey thanks tom good to see you take care thank you guys so much for watching and being a part of this community if 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Channel: Tom Bilyeu

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Length: 42min 48sec (2568 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 09 2020