Lesson From Spanish Flu Pandemic Of 1918 - Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) – Dr.Berg

Recent research uncovered some important lessons from the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic.

Timestamps:
0:00 Important lessons from the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic
1:05 Researchers only recently discovered two factors that caused most deaths
2:57 I explain the significance of the month the Spanish flu pandemic began

In this video, I’ll share important lessons from the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, in which 50 to 100 million people died worldwide. Isn’t it odd that so many people would die out of the blue? Here’s something interesting: they didn’t die of the virus itself. While the virus was involved, it’s not what killed them.

In autopsies done on exhumed bodies, researchers discovered most of the mortality was caused by two factors, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and what’s called superinfection.

With ARDS, the lungs fill up with fluid, causing the person to drown in their own bodily fluid as well as their mucus to get stuck in their lungs. On top of this, there was a superinfection involving bacteria, not virus. The combination of these two caused the deaths.

A good portion of flu deaths involved people in their 20’s. Normally, the flu affects young children and elderly people. So what happened?

Well, four years earlier than the pandemic was World War I, resulting in a significant change in diet because food had to be transported great distances. Since the food had to be preserved, a lot of it was canned. And canning significantly decreases the zinc in food. Zinc is highly important to your immune system. This change affected both the military and people at home because of food rationing. Fewer fresh vegetables were available. People developed nutritional deficiencies, increasing their susceptibility to infection over the four years between the war and the pandemic.

The pandemic began in January, the month when vitamin D deficiencies are at their peak. When you have low vitamin D, your immune system doesn’t work too well. Your risk factor for lung problems goes way up. Vitamin D helps you access cortisol, which is an anti-inflammatory hormone.

I linked below to a chart describing which illnesses are associated with months of the year. In the winter, you have an increased risk of upper respiratory infections, relapses of multiple sclerosis (MS) and other autoimmune diseases, and Epstein Barr virus coming out of remission. Among other problems!

But why did so many young people die? Well, because they were treated with such high levels of aspirin that they were at high risk for pulmonary edema and increase the bacterial load. The combination of vitamin D and other nutritional deficiencies, and overdoses of aspirin were responsible for the deaths in the pandemic.

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I explain important lessons learned from the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918.