What Mainstream Medicine is Missing on Covid-19: Common Sense Nutritional Interventions

Yesterday, I read an article in the New York Times that suddenly had me feeling like I lived on a different planet. The article was entitled Some Covid Survivors Haunted by Loss of Smell and Taste. It discussed the mystifying nature of the loss of smell and taste experienced by Coronavirus survivors, and the often-accompanying depression and anxiety.

I feel for those experiencing this condition—it sounds terrible. But I am not mystified by its cause. This unnecessary suffering is the result of the failings of the mainstream healthcare system—a system that is the result of holding profit, not public health and well being, above all else. Those in mainstream medicine are suffering from chronic nutritional ignorance. Others of us who follow nutrition research from the last 40 years, as well as those of us who have seen this constellation of symptoms in our own families or ourselves recognize it for what it is: symptoms of low zinc. To paraphrase James Carville: It’s the nutrition, stupid.

Studies such as this one point to the critical nature of zinc blood levels in fighting Covid. Others highlight the value of Vitamin C in fighting it. People in the United States are dying by the tens of thousands. Can we please break through the profit barrier and start adding some common sense nutritional solutions to our fight of this disease and its aftermath?