Mattis .vs. Corona

UPDATE: The suggested Corona cure
described here is most likely NOT VALID.
Although harmless, new info leads people
to believe the mode of action described here
is not actually the explanation.

Although at the time, it was very exciting to me
to listen to this young creative grad student,
who we both thought was on the verge of
solving the covid 19 puzzle.
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There was this English Major, Mattis,
who changed his course, and
moved to study chemistry.
 
He had a very critical eye when  
reading science journal articles.
He could tell when the author of the paper,
was not being logical, or not interpreting their  
very own data in their very own article.
 
Then one day, Mattis, got the Corona virus.
First he got the chills, then fever,  
then he was well again for a few days,  
then went back into chills, and fever.
 
Luckily, Mattis was a compassionate person,
and had endeavored to study the old body
of science articles about SARS,where a serious
lung virus outbreak happened back around 2003.
the SARS virus is similar to the current Corona virus.
 
With SARS,the patients got sick ,  
very sick, went to the hospital FIRST,  
before becoming contagious.  
They could be isolated, before getting
somebody else sick.
 
After a while, SARS faded away, and
Research money dried up
But at least, in the times around 2003-2005,
some prime research was done, where
they discovered where the SARS virus attached.
 
Luckily, all this SARS research is good for the
New Corona virus we now have.
 
Here is a quote from the old literature:  
 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3237677/
 
". SARS-CoV was shown to use a novel host receptor, Angiotensin Converting Enzyme 2 (ACE2), for docking and entry and the viral attachment protein, Spike, was extensively characterized both as a determinant of host specificity and as a therapeutic target. The more recent studies of coronaviruses have progressed to increased surveillance and characterization of numerous new coronaviruses circulating in bats, bids, and other species, integrated bioinformatics and microbiological studies, and extensive evaluations of potential therapeutics"
 
 
  if you know where and how the virus attaches,
then maybe, we could make our own molecule, to go in there, and interfere
with the attachment.  If the virus cannot get attached, well, it cannot get into our cells
and make us sick.
 
So they discovered that on our own cells, are these crab claw shaped 'enzymes' dotting the surface, called ACE-2.
  The ACE-2 crab claw has some obscure bodily function, it pinches onto  
a hormone floating around in our blood, Angiotensin. The crab claw opens wide to receive
the angiotensin molecule, and modifies it into a different form,
then the claw crab opens, and the angiotensin floats away.    
You can tell by how they named it, that angiotensin has  
something to do with regulating our blood pressure.
 
The ACE-2  'crab claw', is where the corona virus attaches to our cells.
It does not fit into the inside of the claw, rather it rides on the
outer part of the claw.
 
Many researchers strove to make molecules that would attach
to the outer claw, believing it would interfere/compete with the virus
trying also to attach there.
 
but there was one private, for profit company, that came up with a molecule
(medicine) that they were very vague about in their interviews and press releases.
They also kept the shape and structure of their molecule a trade secret, so nobody
could study it to see how it would actually fit onto the outer claw virus attachment point.
 
Our young PhD student, Mattis got his curiosity excited.  Maybe that drug was attaching
somewhere else, thus distorting the virus attachment site.  Although the drug might  not cover  up and block the virus attachment site, it might be working by attaching somewhere else, and then contorting  the whole ACE-2 enzyme, so that the virus could no longer latch on.
 
Mattis, watched the news. He noticed a surge in interest in a malarial drug, that seemed to help, along with Azithromycin.   Mattis studied the total structure of the antimalarial medicine, and had a eureka moment.  Its shape, and binding points, had a visual match to the
INSIDE of the crab claw. Perhaps the molecule that took the place of Angiotensin, which the ACE-2 claw was designed to work on,  would get these other incorrect molecules in the claw, and sit there chewing on it,  with the claw moving back and forth, thus shaking off the virus on the outer claw, or keeping it from attaching at all.
 
Mattis set out to find anything in the science literature that had been published about getting some 'chewing gum' for the crab claws that dot the surface of our cells.
 
He found some literature about milk.  
Some people, after drinking milk,  
would get their blood pressure messed up.  
When milk is digested by the stomach and intestines,  
the milk protein is broken apart into smaller pieces, called peptides,  
or short chain amino acids.  
 
As a side comment of how potent a short chain of amino acids can be,  
the artificial sweetener, Aspartame,  
is just a short chain  of two amino acids attached together:  
Aspartic acid, and Phenylalanine.
The amino acids are like building blocks.
They get strung together like beads on a necklace,
and depending on which of the twenty or so different amino acids,  
will cause the bead necklace to tangle this way or that,  
and have beads which have special chemical powers  
sticking out here and there, at different structural positions.
 
The Milk dilemma is that during digestion,  
where milk protein gets snipped apart into small lengths,  
small enough to pass through the stomach and intestinal walls  
and into our bloodstream,  
a very few of those snippets can mess with our body chemistry.  
That is why milk causes allergies, and immune reactions  
in many children who drink milk based baby formula, as well as adults.  
 
In our case, our young Phd student,  
found a scientific paper that identifies one of those milk peptide snippets  
that gets into the crab claw,  
making some people have affects on their blood pressure.
 
That is all that Mattis needed to read.  he needed to drink milk.  
Lots of it.    Better yet, he just needed the milk protein.  
 
There just so happened to be a byproduct of cheese making,  
where the cheese curdles out,  
leaving a liquid called whey, behind.  
Whey still contains a rapidly digestible milk protein,  
while the solid cheese portion ends up with a slower,  
larger digestible milk protein called casein.
 
Mattis wanted to saturate his diet just with the protein of milk.  
He saw that there was a product sold to body builders,  
Whey Protien Isolate, which isolated out just the protein found in the whey,  
without the milk fat or lactose that was also in the whey.
 
His bag of whey protein was flavoured chocolate.  
It recommended mixing a 15 gram scoop into a cup of water.    
He drank seven of these over the course of each day.  
 
Mattis has been doing this for two weeks now,  
and his chills and fever episodes have left him.
 
Mattis was very excited.  
Although he never tested himself for corona virus,  
and being well aware that it all may have been a coincidence,  
he did want to convince the tenured professors in his world order of things
to try feeding whey protein isolate milkshakes to people sick with the corona virus.  
It couldn't hurt.   It was just a food.  and it was readily available.
 
Mattis was concerned it may all be the creative daydreams of a young grad student.
He also was worried that if true, price gougers would race out and buy up all the milk isolate they could find, then charge thousands of dollars for what once was a twenty dollar ten pound bag.  Then the people who really needed it would suddenly not be able to get it, like the completely insane toilet paper shortage which left him scratching his head.
 
"what in the world does toilet paper have to do with the corona virus"