Dr. Wes Youngberg discusses the COVID-19 coronavirus and explains how to optimize our immune systems in light of this and other respiratory infections. (Note: The original recording of this message cut off before the presentation was over. We regret the abrupt ending to this talk.)

Dr. Wes Youngberg discusses the COVID-19 coronavirus and explains how to optimize our immune systems in light of this and other respiratory infections. (Note: The original recording of this message cut off before the presentation was over. We regret the abrupt ending to this talk.)

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Fallbrook SDA Church

Wes Youngberg on COVID-19

Wes Youngberg

Optimizing Our Immune System: Natural Strategies for Preventing and Treating Coronavirus and Other Respiratory Infections

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How many of you want to avoid the coronavirus and all viruses?

I'm thankful that we serve a God that wants us to be healthy.

I wish that you were in good health, right?

So why don't we go ahead and have prayer and I'll turn it over to Dan who's gonna introduce our speaker today, our own resident Wes Youngberg.

Heavenly Father, thank you so much Lord for being our Creator and our Redeemer and wanting us to be healthy physically and spiritually and mentally and how all these things work together.

Lord I pray that you would give us alert minds today as we listen to Dr.

Youngberg speak about how to prepare for this and other things coming.

And so please give him the words to speak today and anoint his lips and his mind as he speaks from his experience and for the things that you put on his heart.

You know, with all that's been happening in the last week as we've been hearing about the coronavirus and the fear that that has created all around the world.

I called him on Thursday and said, hey, would you be willing to come to my Sabbath school class and say a few words for 5 minutes?

And what we talked about, we said, you know what, let's do a Sabbath afternoon program and just let him have a full discussion of this from a health standpoint.

How many of you would like to know some simple things that you could do to strengthen your opportunity to avoid this and to deal with it if you came in contact with it?

Okay today you're gonna get that and I'm very pleased and I don't think Dr.

Youngberg needs any introduction here, but some people may be watching on our live stream and will watch it later, and we're very fortunate here in Fallbrook to have Dr.

Wes Youngberg and his family as members of our church.

He is the director of the Youngberg Lifestyle Medicine Clinic in Temecula.

He has an incredible array of treatment that he does for people all over the nation and some places in the world.

Does a lot of his consultation by Skype, but he is into health and preventive health specifically.

And he's going to be bringing some things that will help us understand what is happening.

You know, here in our area, you may know that there are 201 people quarantined less than 50 miles from here, okay, that were flown back out of China, and we hope that they're all doing well.

In fact, we're praying for the people in China, in Bangladesh, India, United States, Canada, Germany, all the places in the world where people have gone from there.

And we just are asking our God to be with them and to be with us.

Youngberg, he is, in addition to being at the Youngberg Lifestyle Medicine Clinic here in Temecula.

He's also an adjunct professor, an assistant clinical professor, did I say that right?

At Loma Linda University in their School of Public Health, School of Medicine, etc.

And he also is a fellow of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, has a doctorate in clinical preventive care.

And I am very pleased and would like to invite you to welcome today Dr.

I'm not supposed to stay up late when you're preparing to keep your immune system strong.

But all this week I've been staying up late, trying to keep up with this amazing new information every day.

You know, just things are changing hour by hour as we're as we're trying to understand this novel coronavirus epidemic and that is now going pandemic.

There was a report just yesterday that I read it says we should really be focusing on the flu not on the coronavirus.

Is it true that the coronavirus is not as much of a problem as the regular seasonal flu.

There's so much information and mixed information and I have actually found it somewhat difficult to keep up on it myself, and I've been studying this for 35 years.

And so it's clear to me that the average layperson in the public is just gonna be just overwhelmed with information and not really be able to make heads or tails of, you know, well, what's going on?

We're being told, well, wait a minute, just a few days ago, the World Health Organization declared a global health emergency because of the coronavirus epidemic.

Okay, should that somehow impact what we're doing in our personal lives today?

Or do we just sit back and wait for the government and other health authorities tell us what to do next?

Is there something that we can start doing right now?

Or as yesterday, on January the 31st, when the United States task force on the coronavirus came out and basically declared a national public health emergency.

These are unprecedented times that we're dealing with and yet we keep hearing you know we're really at low risk and so the the implications I think to the average lay person is just keep stressing, which is the last thing that we should be doing right now is stressing because stress in our lives and not knowing what's going to happen next not knowing what to do not knowing how to prepare ourselves is the worst thing for our immune system and so today my hope is to try to make sense of what the latest information is, which, again, is changing from day to day.

So a month from now, or even a few days from now, there may be different perspectives coming out.

But it's important that we start making some decisions right now.

And that's going to become clearer as we get through the data that has unfolded over the last week in particular.

So my philosophy as a lifestyle medicine specialist and a clinical nutritionist is to be 100% honest with my patient about what's going on in their health.

I have a reputation for doing lots of lab tests and because of that we're going to find some stuff that's wrong.

I don't care how healthy you are, we're going to find some stuff that isn't good.

We're not going to just do the regular metabolic profile and complete blood count and a thyroid stimulating hormone.

We're doing a lot more than that to figure out what are our weak points, and therefore, what can we do about it?

So I call it the philosophy of Desire of Ages page 104, where John the Baptist, It's a chapter on John the Baptist when he said he saw his people, the Jewish people, deceived in the sleep of their sins.

And so he longed to rouse them to make better decisions with their lives.

And his approach to doing so was basically tell it like it is.

Don't sugarcoat it, just tell it like it is, and then provide answers that give hope.

And so I'm going to try to appropriately report what I feel is going on based on the literature, there's a lot of literature that's on Madison that's being published every day in top medical journals.

Because I'm going to share with you an example of, it was actually a Seventh-day Adventist seminary in 1918, near the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota, where the majority of the individuals in the school and the faculty lived under 1 big roof it was a huge huge building a hundred and 20 people in that building were exposed to the Spanish flu.

This is a flu that over the course of 1918 through 1920 took the lives of between 50 and 100 million individuals.

And I'm gonna explain to you how the physician in charge of that student and faculty group implemented a protocol that cured all 90 patients who had come down with a Spanish flu.

In other words, there are insights from history that if we pay attention to, we can gain great insight from.

And so that, in other words, there is hope.

There's a concept called passive stress versus active stress.

Neil Nedley talks about this in his depression recovery series.

He says if you're just stressed out, but you have no idea what to do about it, and you're just waiting for the other shoe to drop, you're waiting to get exposed, you're basically not sure what's going on and that type of stress significantly depresses the immune system thus perpetuating exactly what you don't want to happen.

Whereas active stress is when you purpose in your heart to do something about it, and you figure out what the most rational, prudent, appropriate strategies are, and you begin implementing.

You're doing something about that according to your abilities and knowledge and understanding and By doing so that becomes an act of stress that actually enhances your immune system which is exactly what we need in situations like this, when the body's defense against a virus or another pathogen may be the determining factor on whether you become infected and therefore whether you end up transmitting that pathogen to other people, especially people that you love or people that you work with or people around you.

And so it's important That we dig in and start having some active stress right that's what we're doing today We're getting into some active stress doing something about it, and then what my goal is to share with you additional natural remedies that directly impact how to optimize our immunity and apply those appropriately.

And then finally I want to share with you what we call simple remedies.

We have natural remedies which are the lifestyle medicine strategies and then we have simple remedies which are strategies that we could take advantage of, both as a preventive to optimize the immune system, and in particular, as a therapeutic strategy for those of us who may get exposed and for those of us who unfortunately actually catch any kind of viral respiratory illness.

So these type of strategies are not just for us to prepare and address the novel coronavirus, but they're also the very same strategies that we use to impact any respiratory condition, any immune-related condition.

Alright, so that's what we're going to try to get done today.

Okay, so that is a joke, but we'll try to run through this.

So it's, my first challenge is to summarize what we have learned, what's available in the medical literature over the last week.

It's of interest to me that today, February 1, 2020, marks exactly 2 months from the very first reported case of novel coronavirus in Wuhan City in China.

So it's been just a little bit over 60 days and wow have things changed so dramatically.

It is also very interesting to me that we didn't really start being even that concerned about this until around January 23rd when it was starting to get announced.

And my house have things changed over the last 7, 8 days.

So 1 of the first things that we want to take a look at and this is this is hard to see maybe from the back of the church but you can look this up on the internet essentially essentially this is looking at the outbreaks from January 20 to January 30 in January 20 there was 291 cases identified.

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Wes Youngberg on COVID-19

Optimizing Our Immune System: Natural Strategies for Preventing and Treating Coronavirus and Other Respiratory Infections

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