General Wellness

This Mother’s Day, we want to celebrate these wonderful animal moms.
— Read on www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/mothers-day-animals-best-moms-on-the-planet/

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You may be surprised by which animals are the most maternal.

Spoiler alert, it may change what you eat.

Stay safe and be well.

AC 😎✌️🌱❤🐖🏃🏻🧘🏻‍♂️🌎😷

Good Monday morning,

The problem with going off line for a few days is that everything changes.
And not just a little bit.
Here are a few things out there.

1) Does exposure provide future protection (ie will antibodies protect us and will a vaccine work)? There have been a few uncorroborated reports out of China of people previously infected with COv-SARS-2, getting reinfected and getting sick again. It’s hard to make anything of this, especially in light of improvements we have seen in some patients improved in the US by getting convalescent serum from previously infected donors. Time will tell.

2) Resurgence after re-opening. Even in S. Korea, arguably the country which dealt with this the best and has had the lowest death rates, there was a resurgence in cases after some loosening of restrictions were implemented. They tightened back up again. I think by the weekend, we will see the result of the “Georgia Experiment” where they started loosening last week. A week later, we will see what happens in all the other states where loosening was allowed this last weekend. It’s inevitable that we move in a measured manner but it is inevitable that people will get sick and some die. Yale epidemiologist Dr. Katz, who by the way promotes a vegan diet, is one of the rational voices out of those who do think that we must start opening things up but also concedes that people will get sick and die. He says that “flattening the curve” does not mean that people won’t die, it just changes the date.

3) NEW SYMPTOMS. Some kids have developed massive inflammatory responses to the virus, similar to a well established inflammatory condition called Kawasaki’s Disease. DON’T PANIC. Most kids who get allergy symptoms actually have allergies. Some with headaches are just stressed. Skin rashes can come from many things. I think that the basic three symptoms have now been expanded with a few additional ones. If you have these or combinations of them, contact your doctor:
a) Fever
b) Cough
c) Shortness of breath. Add to these three the following
d) Sore throat
e) GI symptoms like stomach pain or diarrhea
f) Unexplained isolated changes in smell and taste.
g) Unexplained skin rashes. (Covid toes).

In the midst of all this uncertainty, there are some cornerstones.

• We need each other.
• We need to get as healthy as possible to weather whatever the future holds for us.
• We need to be smart. Going to a birthday party without social distancing now is crazy. An outbreak in California was directly linked to just such an unwise choice. Wear your mask. Socially distance. It may not absolutely guarantee you won’t get sick, but I do think that some degree of social distancing may be in our future in one form our another, independent of this particular virus.
• We need to stay as active as possible.

If you are interested, Fareed Zacharia had a great editorial on his CNN show yesterday. Worth a listen, espetially his closing comments. Essentially, we can’t continue to live the way we have and expect this type of global even not to happen. It’s hard however to listen to such well spoken people and then have to suffer through a pharmaceutical add or Jimmy Dean commercial about how a processed meal of eggs, bacon and biscuits is part of a great breakfast! 🤮

As for our office, we are starting to open up slowly, practicing as much safety and social distancing as possible. We’ll see.

Have a great week.

Stay safe and be well.

AC 😎✌️🌱❤🐖🏃🏻🧘🏻‍♂️🌎😷