Paul Saladino· MD
leukotoxin is produced by neutrophils and macrophages converting linoleic acid into this toxin which produces the bad outcome in ards there's a fascinating study looking at people on tpn which is total parenteral nutrition which is basically if you can't eat and they have to feed you what do they feed you well what they feed you is glucose and soybean oil so if they feed you glucose and soybean oil apparently they increase your risk of getting odds by seven fold and the study which i don't think i include here but you know the study that does this was basically really good medicine but really bad science because as they were doing the study and they realized how harmful soybean oil was to their patients they reduced the feeding the patients with soybean oil and saw a significant reduction in mortality by reducing feeding of soybean oil and the mechanisms as described so far base would lead one to believe that what's happening is if you put leukocytes in a vial with linoleic acid they will basically turn all of the linoleic acid they can get their hands on into this leukotoxin which causes you know there's it's been a lot of interesting commentary on mystifying to me on scientists who apparently don't read the literature talking about how covet 19 causes cardiac damage and clotting all through the body and they're like oh my goodness why does that happen well gee guys this was demonstrated years ago it's args leukocytes convert linoleic acid into leukotoxin you inject leukotexan into dogs which is the study that was done and they get heart failure