#166 Biohack the Coronavirus with a Strong Immune System

Teemu Arenah (0:27)

Welcome to Biohacker's live show.

I'm so totally ready for Corona virus.

All right, so is everyone ready for the pandemic? I mean, some people have mistaken the corn beer for the flu virus, but we are not. I think there is a lot of need for people to get their hands on information that is relevant, truthful, and based on factual science. And there's a lot of fear mongering going on right now in terms of, whoa, taking those glasses off. There's a lot of fear mongering from world hysteria organization on the fact that 70% of world population might be getting the coronavirus. And so we've been doing the research and yeah, you probably could get it. But what is important is how do you prepare so that if you contract the virus, it is not going to cause a lot of damage to you or your family. So that's kind of the topic for today for the Biohackers Flu Webinar. My name is Teemu Arenah and I'm one of the co-authors of the Biohackers Handbook. And here in studio, I have also my colleagues, Dr. Olli Sovijärvi. Welcome.

Olli Sovijärvi (1:53)

Thank you.

Teemu Arenah (1:54)

You have pretty cool outfit as well.

Olli Sovijärvi (1:56)

I want to protect myself. But this makes living a bit more complicated.

Teemu Arenah (2:04)

Right on.

Olli Sovijärvi (2:05)

Maybe I should have a drink.

Teemu Arenah (2:06)

I think you should definitely have a drink and our friend here as well. Mr. Jaakko Halme-Toja.

Olli Sovijärvi (2:16)

Welcome Jaakko.

Teemu Arenah (2:18)

You have pretty cool outfit as well. But you know, your mask is not fully protecting your nose at the moment. It's somehow on your forehead.

So here you go.

Olli Sovijärvi (2:27)

That's why I have the best protection, because I'm from the medical field and therefore I don't want to do anything with Corona except this beer.

Teemu Arenah (2:39)

Okay.

Wonderful. So how have you guys been so far with the viral threat?

Olli Sovijärvi (2:49)

Even five minutes in this is kind of interesting.

It's been very interesting times, but also I see that this is a huge possibility for people and the world and to see how we act as a whole, how can we spread the information which is actually correct and also diminish unnecessary fear, but just based on facts. And what we are going to do here in this webinar is how you can actually protect yourself without putting too much energy and strain towards it. But the key here is how to build your immune system. I'm glad that I don't have to wear this anymore.

Teemu Arenah (3:41)

Yeah, I actually have a photocatalysis device right here. So what this device is doing is actually destroying our bacterial and viral pathogens in the air, as well as degrading formaldehyde and benzene. And so this is something I travel with. I use this with my computer when I'm on a boat, on a train, on an airplane. And basically, it's creating kind of a bubble around me in which there is no pathogens. And if there is any kind of droplets in the air, they're not reaching me because of the turbulence around this. So there's a lot of ways how we can protect ourselves.

And today, we're going to dive deep. It's going to be a lot of material in the next couple of hours. So welcome to the Biohackers Flu Webinar. And today, we're going to dive deeper into the epidemic and what you can potentially do. We have special reporter Siim Land sharing some of his knowledge on autophagy and how we can protect ourselves with dietary interventions.

Only me and Jaco are live on studio.

Siim Land (4:51)

If you have paid attention to the news, then you probably heard of the coronavirus from China. The Chinese coronavirus from Wuhan has already captured over 100 deaths and up to 5,000 people infected. However, these numbers are reported to be 10 times less than in reality.

SPEAKER_4 (5:07)

The symptoms include a dry cough and a fever, but people can remain asymptomatic, unaware that they can spread the disease.

Siim Land (5:14)

I didn't really want to make this video, but I got asked about this question quite a lot on social media. So will autophagy protect against coronavirus? As a disclaimer, I'm not a medical doctor. I'm not a virus expert.

And I think that no one really knows the exact answer to that question. But I'm just going to in this video, I'm just going to go through some of the research about how autophagy has been involved in protecting against different bacteria and different infections and whether or not this going to work against coronavirus. Coronavirus is our group of viruses that cause respiratory infections similar to the common cold and pneumonia.