Ray Peat about therapies for COVID-19 killing patients.
"I think that’s exactly what’s happening, irrational use of oxygen and immunosuppressive drugs like chloroquine."
“If people come in with a mild respiratory ailment and are over 70 years old, and they got put into pure oxygen atmosphere, that’s exactly the wrong thing to do, but is what almost all the hospitals in the world are doing, thinking they need oxygen, they are having trouble breathing so they give them pure oxygen, but CO2 is anti-inflammatory, and you give them pure oxygen 5 times more than normal you tremendously displacing the natural balance of carbon dioxide which is anti-inflammatory stuff in our breath. Several good research projects have found that if you hypoventilate people who were having some problem in hospital-like surgery, slight hypoventilation to let the co2 built up reduces inflammation and produces much better outcomes overall because inflammation is such a pathogen in any kind of sickness and especially in this particular virus infection or any lung infection. The symptoms are basically inflammatory, the angiotensin system, the interferon system which turns on other inflammatory agents, histamine…, all of the defensive reactions triggered by this respiratory infections amplify inflammation and that causes the congestion, constriction, swelling, exudation of serum into the lungs, instead of an balance moisture, the serum and proteins in the blood lose out into the lungs and interfere with breathing. Anything you do to increase inflammation is going to increase that pneumonia tendency and general sickness, so oxygen and many of the virucidal chemicals that were giving, greatly intensify inflammation. That’s one of the reason old people are so susceptible. Different studies about 85 % of the proven infected people have almost no symptoms of infection, the main once who react badly and get very sick or die are mostly the very old people who already have some kind of degenerative circulatory or inflammatory kind of disease, heart disease, stroke, kidney disease, and so on. “
“Breathing pure oxygen lowers the oxygen content of tissues; breathing rarefied air, or air with carbon dioxide, oxygenates and energizes the tissues; if this seems upside down, it's because medical physiology has been taught upside down. And respiratory physiology holds the key to the special functions of all the organs, and too many of their basic pathological changes.”
“Breathing too much oxygen displaces too much carbon dioxide, provoking an increase in lactic acid; too much lactate displaces both oxygen and carbon dioxide. Lactate itself tends to suppress respiration.
Oxygen toxicity and hyperventilation create a systemic deficiency of carbon dioxide. It is this carbon dioxide deficiency that makes breathing more difficult in pure oxygen, that impairs the heart’s ability to work, and that increases the resistance of blood vessels, impairing circulation and oxygen delivery to tissues. In conditions that permit greater carbon dioxide retention, circulation is improved and the heart works more effectively. Carbon dioxide inhibits the production of lactic acid, and lactic acid lowers carbon dioxide's concentration in a variety of ways.”
