Scientists Say Cholesterol Drug Could Clear COVID-19 From Lungs in Days

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Could a well-known cholesterol-lowering drug help treat COVID-19? A research team led by Hebrew University of Jerusalem professor Yaakov Nahmias says that early research looks promising.

In the last three months, Nahmias and Dr. Benjamin tenOever at New York’s Mount Sinai Medical Center have focused on the ways in which SARS-CoV-2 (the scientific name for the virus that causes COVID-19) changes patients’ lungs in order to reproduce.

Their major finding is that this virus prevents the routine burning of carbohydrates. As a result, large amounts of fat accumulate inside lung cells, and this enables the virus to reproduce.

This new understanding of SARS-CoV-2 may help explain why patients with high blood sugar and cholesterol levels are often at a particularly high risk to develop COVID-19.

With this information in hand, Nahmias and tenOever began to screen FDA-approved medications capable of interfering with the virus’s ability to reproduce. In lab studies, the cholesterol-lowering drug Fenofibrate (Tricor) showed extremely promising results.

By allowing lung cells to burn more fat, fenofibrate broke the virus’s grip on these cells. Within five days of treatment, the virus almost completely disappeared, the researchers report in this week’s Cell Press Sneak Peak.

“With second-wave infections spiking in countries across the globe, these findings couldn’t come at a better time,” said Nahmias. “If our findings are borne out by clinical studies, this course of treatment could potentially downgrade COVID-19’s severity into nothing worse than a common cold.” (JNS.org)

{Matzav.com}


7 COMMENTS

  1. You can clear lungs with ginger tea or
    follow the instruction of Rav Benzion Mutzafi:

    הגאון רבי בן ציון מוצפי, מבכירי הפוסקים הספרדים, הציע שיקוי מרפא מיוחד, המועיל לדבריו למניעת הידבקות בנגיף הקורונה.
    “כדי שאדם לא יהיה חולה בשפעת או בקורונה”, סיפר הגרב”צ מוצפי, “שיקח חצי כפית קינמון טחון, עם מעט ציפורן וזנגוויל (ג’ינג’ר), ולערבב חזק עם מים רותחים”.
    “לאחר המתנה של 2 דקות, יש לשתות בצורה איטית”.
    הרב הדגיש: “הדבר בדוק ומנוסה כדי שלא ידבקו בקורונה, ואפילו אחד שיש לו שפעת – שיעשה פופפפ, והשפעת תצא”.
    את דבריו אלו הוציא הרב מוצפי מתוך אחד ממרכיבי הקטורת, כפי שהועלתה בבית המקדש.

    Half a teaspoon of minced cinnamon with a bit of cloves and ginger and mix well with boiling water.
    After waiting 2 minutes, drink slowly.

    THE HOLY ZOHAR SAYS: SAYING THE KETORES WITH KAVANAH 3 TIMES A DAY IS AN AMAZING SEGULAH FOR PROTECTION. ONE OF THE BENEFITS OF SAYING KETORES IS THAT IT HAS THE POWER TO STOP A PLAGUE AND BE SAVED FROM CONTAGIOUS DISEASES AND ILLNESSES.

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