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Okay, so COVID and autoimmunity. So here
we go. So literally 90% of my practice Are patients who have autoimmunity, who have been
confirmed with having autoimmunity. They either Come with lupus or they come with Sjogren's. Most
of them come with Hashimoto's or a suspicion of Hashimoto's, on and on. I occasionally
treat MS patients. This is my practice. So early on in the COVID pandemic, I
started getting phone calls. So I'm going To share with you my experience.
So I started getting phone calls That were typical of phone calls that I would
get, and they would say, "Doc, I had a trigger, Or I got sick, and then my gut started feeling
bad. Then I got pain in my joints, then I got Brain fog, then my hair started falling out, then
I got pain." Just classic, "All of a sudden I Can't eat any food," classic autoimmune symptoms.
And there was a lot more than that, and there was Probably another 200 symptoms I could go over. So
then I would get to the end of the consultation, Which I would do to see if that person was a good
candidate for what we do. And then they would say, "I have one more question. Do you mind?" I'm like,
"no." And they'd say, "I got COVID. I was fine And all of this happened." Or, "I got COVID and I
had rheumatoid arthritis, but it was in remission And now I have it back again." And invariably,
it was within 24 hours that this would happen. By about the sixth or seventh or eighth or ninth
phone call I had, or zoom video, whichever it was, When they would say, "Oh, I
have one more question for you." Then I knew what that question was going
to be. And I'm like, okay, okay, well, Okay, this makes sense because some of the
original triggers for autoimmune disease were Epstein-Barr virus, cytomegalovirus, HHV-6 virus,
parvovirus. So viruses. Several viruses that Have been proven to trigger autoimmune problems.
I thought, okay, this is going to be number six Or seven or whatever it's going to be. And then as
time went on, I started to read as I have an app That I can look at the healthcare websites
of all the major newspapers. Left, right, Middle, scientific, unscientific, whatever.
And they started talking about long COVID. And I started looking at those histories, usually
each one of these stories would have two or three Histories in there. "I got COVID, and then
this happened, and I went to this doctor and They couldn't tell me and I started getting
this symptom and that symptom, and nobody Knows what it is." And I thought, these people are
getting autoimmune problems because I've already Talked to a number of people at this point in
time, and they have the exact same history. "I was fine, I had this, I got the virus, now
my life is falling apart. Now everything's Getting worse. It's not getting any better. I'm
going to the doctor's. Nobody knows what it is. I've been to six doctors, one for my head,
one for my gut, one for my immune system, One for my endocrine system." I thought, this
is my patients. So it wasn't that long into The pandemic that it started to strike me that
COVID was a trigger for autoimmunity. And indeed,
We're starting to see it come out. If you
read many of the articles about COVID and Autoimmunity now, what you're going to find
is that it's the medical field, so the medical Field is looking for some sort of a pathogen,
or they're looking because you may be, as a COVID patient who got autoimmunity who's asking
this question and many of you who may be watching, They're looking for a pathogen for each
area of the physiology that gets bad. So the gut people are looking for one thing, and
the brains people are looking for another thing, And the immune people are looking for
another thing. But in article, after article, After article, you are going to start to see
them alluding to, oh, they think it may be an Autoimmune problem. I think that may, in the end,
be the overriding thing that we see. Now, again, Don't start shooting arrows at me over
there, those people who maybe disagree With it. I'm telling you what I see, and I've
been seeing this stuff for three years. So I Feel pretty confident at this point in time in
sharing that with the person who answered this Question. So if the question is, can COVID
trigger autoimmunity? The answer in my world Is probably yes until they prove otherwise
because now I've seen 50 or 60 patients who Have had COVID gone into autoimmunity, and we
treated them as we treated my other patients, Which is as an autoimmune case. Which
means yes, there's a viral trigger. And by the way, I've started reading,
I've started seeing articles that are Saying that the COVID is like Lyme or Epstein-Barr
virus, where the virus goes in and particles still Remain. Ooh, now we're going to kill all the
particles. No, because basically what happens is Those particles remain, they trigger autoimmunity
if they're like Lyme, which is a bacteria, If they're like virus and stuff. And then those
viruses linger. Think shingles. If you know people Who have the autoimmune problem with shingles,
they have a virus that's lurking all the time, It goes into a dormancy. But then that person
becomes compromised, either they get sick or they Get under a lot of stress, the immune system's
really busy trying to take care of that. Thus, now The herpes virus, can express itself and boom, the
next thing you know… I'm sorry, I said herpes. The shingles virus can express itself, and
the next thing you know, boom. And the same Thing with herpes, frankly. But that's how
it works. So it's beginning to look to me And truly, those of us who are in clinical
practice, frequently see these things before the Research will verify because proper research can
take years. It really should take years, because It's not easy to do research on anything on a
human being because there's so many mitigating Factors that just can't be controlled for in the
human race. So basically you'll see it in practice Before they'll see it. So what I'm doing is I'm
just sharing with you what I see, how I go about It. We have treated these folks. The vast majority
of them have done well in treating them from the Perspective of them being an autoimmune condition.
It would be interesting to see what would happen,
Any of you guys out there who are medical doctors,
if we started giving steroids to these people. Now, don't throw things at the screen there. I'm
just saying that if it is autoimmune and they took Steroids, people would probably feel better. I'm
not saying that it's a good solution for the next 25 years of your life, I'm just saying that if
it is an autoimmune problem and you gave people Steroids that would dampen the inflammation
that's being caused by this spiral trigger, That that person should feel better, that
should be a pretty simple thing to research, Researchers. So that's my understanding, or it's
my observation, that's how I go about it in my Practice, and that seems to be the direction
that the literature is going, that seems to Be the direction that the research is going.
So I'm pretty sure it's going to be listed Probably not in the too distant future as an
additional trigger for autoimmune disease.