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Why Viruses Are Crucial To Life On This Planet, The Link Between Air Pollution, Glyphosate & Pandemics, Loss Of Biodiversity (& What We Can Do About It) & More With Dr. Zach Bush.

Ben Greenfield Life

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Coronavirus and Hypoxia

The vast majority of people who are testing positive for coronavirus never got ill or had very minor symptoms. The virus itself has no mortality. What has mortality is at artificial, you know, chemical environments that are changing our relationship to this virus and inducing a toxic event. And it turns out that as we age, especially if we are in areas of high pollution, we will get minor changes within the lung which up-regulate the ACE2 receptor beyond its normal biologic function. So these patients who are individuals that live in toxic environments, i.e. New York City, northern Italy, where we have high PM 2.5 Ecuador, high mortality within some of the cities of

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