Influential Doctors Magazine July 2020

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STAYING INDOORS INCREASES CORONAVIRUS RISK! DR DAVID FRIEDMAN N.D., D.C. AUTHOR, SPEAKER, HEALTH EXPERT & RADIO/TV SHOW HOST Copyright Dr. David Friedman

Dr. David Friedman N.D.,D.C. is the author of the award-winning, #1 national best-selling book Food Sanity, How to Eat in a World of Fads and Fiction. He's a Doctor of Naturopathy, Chiropractic Neurologist, Clinical Nutritionist, Board Certified Alternative Medical Practitioner, and Board Certified in Integrative Medicine. Dr. Friedman is a syndicated television health expert and host of To Your Good Health Radio, which has changed the face of talk radio by incorporating entertainment, shock value, and solutions to everyday health and wellness issues.

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Social distancing is being enforced across the

those in the coronavirus family, they don’t

nation as an attempt to contain and eliminate

survive well when exposed to heat. Ac-

the coronavirus. But is being quarantined

cuWeather Founder Dr. Joel N. Myers says,

indoors and having our beaches closed the

“UV light can damage or destroy various types

answer? Your best defense against the virus is

of pathogens, like SARS and MERS. Sunshine

to get ultraviolet (UV) light from the sun and

negatively impacts many similar viruses, and it

breathe in the fresh spring air!

may have similar effects on the coronavirus.”

First, it’s important to know, the coronavirus is not new. Photos of old Lysol labels showing the product kills the coronavirus have gone viral (pun intended;) creating conspiracy cover -up theories that the government has lied to

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us about the existence of the coronavirus.

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Scientists have known about the coronavirus since 1961. There are dozens of viruses

family, tend to subside in warmer months

because their outer structure called the "lipid envelope" is destroyed by heat. People get a fever when they have the flu because that's the body’s way of increasing internal temperature in an attempt to destroy the virus. Viruses hate the heat!

in the coronavirus family, but only seven

The

afflict humans. Four are known to cause mild

lished data on stability and resistance of SARS

colds in people, while others are more novel,

coronavirus which states that “heat kills the

deadly, and thought to be transmitted from

SARS coronavirus in 15 minutes.” The SARS

animals. SARS and MERS are classified as coro-

coronavirus happens to share 90 percent of its

naviruses. They are structurally similar to the

DNA with the current coronavirus (COVID-19.)

current coronavirus which is specific to a dis-

According to the Lancet Medical Journal,

ease called COVID-19 (abbreviation for Coro-

“There are many similarities between severe

navirus Disease of 2019.) According to the

acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and coro-

CDC, COVID-19 is transmitted in the same

navirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) from the

fashion as the flu and common cold: by close

virus homology to the origin and transmission

contact with infected people and from respir-

route.”

atory droplets when an infected person sneezes or coughs.

What we do know about all viruses, including

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World

Health

Organization’s

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While experts are saying it’s too early to know for sure if this current coronavirus strain will

experience the same cellular destruction


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