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    Optimum Health in the Pandemic Age
    Optimum Health in the Pandemic Age
    Optimum Health in the Pandemic Age
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    Optimum Health in the Pandemic Age

    By Rolando Toyos MD

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    The new book by best selling author Dr. Rolando Toyos, "Optimum Health in the Pandemic Age", guides you through the current Pandemic and future Pandemics. Dr. Toyos educates you on all the political history of Pandemics from our Founding Fathers and Yellow Fever to now. He uses scientific information to instruct the reader on the best tips for health and wellness. Dr. Toyos deciphers all the conflicting information that you are seeing on the web so that you can make intelligent choices for your health immediately.

    The book launched last weekend on Amazon and has already made Amazon's Best Sellers list at number 3 for preventative medicine. Already some of Dr. Toyos predictions for the treatment of COVID-19 have already materialized like convalescent blood plasma, Vitamin C and Thiamine therapy, and the anti-viral Avigan.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateApr 5, 2020
    ISBN9781098311476
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      Optimum Health in the Pandemic Age - Rolando Toyos MD

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law.

      ISBN: 9781098311476

      Dedicated to Dr. Bill Wallace (1944-2006)

      Dr. Wallace was a microbiologist, who received his PhD at Harvard University.  He spent his career helping students achieve their goals.  He started at Harvard coordinating the Health Careers Summer Program from 1973-1979.  He then became the Assistant Dean of Student Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh Medical School from 1979-1981. He came to the University of Illinois Medical School in Chicago to become the Dean of Students.  As Class President at U of I, I had the opportunity to see how much time and energy Dr. Wallace devoted to his students. He became my mentor and friend.  We collaborated on a book together, Flash Micro, a study guide of microbiology for medical students.  I could hear his voice and lessons throughout my work on this book.  I hope this book puts a smile on his face.

      Special thank you

      Dr. Barbie Jodoin Editor

      Ken Brayden Matthews Cover and Photography

      Dr. Melissa Toyos Support

      Chris Caudy Trainer

      To my mentors, Binnie Toyos, Prof. Francisco Batista, Prof. Howard Bern,

      Prof. Bill Wallace, and Roger Parkin

      Drs. Rolando and Melissa Toyos

      Contents

      Introduction

      Chapter 1 - The Greeks

      Chapter 2 - Spanish Flu

      Chapter 3 - The Lab

      Chapter 4 - Blue Zones and My Grandparents

      Chapter 5 - Black Death

      Chapter 6 - Dopamine

      Chapter 7 - Motivation

      Chapter 8 - Ebola

      Chapter 9 - Air Travel

      Chapter 10 - Exercise

      Chapter 11 - Killer Mosquito

      Chapter 12 - Good Food

      Chapter 13 - Supplements

      Chapter 14 - COVID-19

      Chapter 15 - Conclusion

      Appendix

      Selected Sources

      Introduction

      To every natural evil, Heaven has provided an antidote

      Dr. Benjamin Rush

      Many Americans do not know that one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence was a doctor, Dr. Benjamin Rush.  There is a medical school that bears his name in Chicago, Rush Medical College.  He is better known for his work during a terrible yellow fever epidemic that killed 10 percent of the population of Philadelphia, our nation’s temporary capital, in the summer of 1793. There are many social, scientific, and political parallels between yellow fever and the current coronavirus pandemic.  One similarity is a doctor is in the center of the political discourse concerning the disease: Dr. Rush for yellow fever and Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease and White House Corona Task Force, for the coronavirus.  There are many other similarities that I will point out. 

      When someone becomes infected with yellow fever, they experience fever and chills.  After several days, the skin turns yellow because of liver damage, and the patient will vomit blood hence the name of the disease in Spanish, vómito negro.  Eventually, the patient becomes incontinent and wastes away.  The disease is caused by a RNA virus that is transmitted by the bite of the Aedes Aegypti mosquito. The same mosquito that caused the recent Zika outbreak. The disease can be confirmed with a blood sample, but in 1793, no one knew what was causing this disease.  As soon as people started dying in Philadelphia, a panic set in, and many affluent people escaped the city including several politicians like George Washington.  It reminded me of the mass exodus of people from New York City to the Hamptons when the coronavirus pandemic started escalating.  Dr. Rush did not leave the city because he wanted to help as many people as possible.  He said, I have resolved to stick to my principles, my practice, and my patients to the last extremity.  I could hear Dr. Fauci and most doctors I know saying the same thing.

      There were many in Philadelphia that believed that a ship carrying refugees escaping the slave revolt in Saint-Domingue, now Haiti, brought the disease to the United States.  It was thought that the disease could be transmitted from person to person.  Dr. Rush believed that the disease was due to filthy conditions.  The truth of the matter is that mosquitoes thrive in areas of shallow water and heat.  In the summer of 1793, there were plenty of places for the mosquitoes to thrive including stored rainwater in barrels, shallow holes that dead animal bodies were thrown into, a sewage dumping ground, and the surrounding marshes and swamps.

      The mosquito would bite an infected human or primate host, and when they would bite their next host, they transferred the virus.  There is a vaccine now, but there are still outbreaks.  Dr. Rush did not know the cause or how to treat patients but that did not stop him from adamantly stating that the way to cure these patients was bloodletting and large doses of mercury - bad ideas.  Mercury is toxic.  The Alice in Wonderland character, Mad Hatter, was based on the fact that people in the hat making industry were exposed to mercury and developed toxicity that caused emotional instability, tremors, hallucinations and speech problems.  Bloodletting only weakened the patients and dropped their blood pressure, causing cardiac arrest.  Some of the refugees, including West Indies doctors, through experience had a better way of treating patients.  The West India Cure included a clean environment, drinking lots of lemonade, and wine.  Many false theories did come out during this time including African Americans could not contract the disease, cleaning the house with vinegar, chewing garlic, and setting off guns in the streets (must be why so many people are buying ammunition now).  African Americans supposedly could not be infected, so city officials called upon them to provide most of the city’s nursing care and manual labor.  The coronavirus also had many myths that made the pandemic worse like: 1. Young people could not get terminally sick with the disease, giving them a false sense of security leading to flouting advised precautions. 2. Hand dryers kill coronavirus. 3. Rinsing the nose with saline protects against coronavirus. 4. The virus will die off when temperatures rise in the spring.

      One interesting theory during the yellow fever was that smoking tobacco was a viable treatment.  It turned out that people who were caring for the sick that smoked did not get the disease.  The smoke from the tobacco would keep the mosquitoes away and decrease the chances of being bit.  Doctors tried to tell Dr. Rush of their experiences, but he would not change his treatment regimen.  One thing that I am seeing during the coronavirus pandemic is that the Chinese do have tips on the treatment of the disease that US is not using.  Dr. Fauci has correctly stated that these protocols have not gone through vigorous scientific scrutiny so he is not currently recommending these protocols.  Our society is more litigious which makes it difficult to try experimental treatments.  I have talked to my colleagues in the Far East, and they have insights into the treatment of the disease that we should listen to and implement.  For example, Favilavir (Avigan), an antiviral drug, was used successfully in the outbreak in Wuhan, and we have not heard a word about it in the US.

      Dr. Toyos lecturing in China

      Yellow fever eventually went away when the weather changed, and the mosquitoes died.  Dr. Rush became a hero for his brave work in trying to help the sick during a crisis.  It did not matter that he was wrong, but his thoughts on filth did ignite the city to establish the first municipal water system designed by Benjamin Latrobe.  The water

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