Prof. Dr. Ertürk explained the details of his study, in which they obtained important findings by examining the brain tissue of more than 50 people who died from Covid-19 and the brain fluids taken from dozens of long-term Covid-19 patients. Prof. Dr. Thanks to the special technique he developed, Ertürk also made the entire body of the experimental mouse, a mammal, ‘transparent’ and digitally mapped it, visually revealing where the virus had settled in its body.
IT BROUGHT A GROUND IN THE MEDICAL WORLD
With his special technique called ‘DISCO Transparency’, which he developed with his team, Prof. made the entire experimental mouse, a mammal, as well as some human organs and tissues such as the heart, eye and pancreas, transparent and digitally mapped them, and broke new ground in the medical world by introducing the concept of ‘digital biopsy’ into the literature. Dr. Ali Ertürk carried out a new research that made a splash.
EXAMINED THE DATA OF HUNDREDS OF PATIENTS
Genetics and Neuroscience Specialist Prof., who works as the Director of the Helmholtz Institute of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine at Ludwig Maximillian’s University in Munich, Germany. Dr. Ertürk and his team first showed that the skull is not just a hard helmet protecting the brain, but a living part of the brain. Prof. discovered that hundreds of thousands of defense cells in the ‘secret passages’ between the skull and the brain can suddenly enter the brain. Dr. Ertürk’s research was published last year in Cell, one of the world’s most respected science journals. Prof. Dr. Ertürk started a new study based on the hypothesis that the coronavirus could infiltrate the brain using this mechanism, and the data of hundreds of patients were examined for this. Samples taken from the brain fluids of patients with long Covid (Long Covid) and patients who did not experience prolonged Covid were compared, and the cadavers, skulls and brain samples of dozens of patients who died from Covid were digitalized and examined with the DISCO Transparency method. The research, published last week in the journal Cell Host & Microbe, revealed a frightening fact. The spike proteins that the coronavirus uses to enter the human cell accumulate ‘like garbage’ in these secret passages in the skull, and can even hide there for years and leak to the surface of the brain.
HE TOOK A PHOTO OF THE VIRUS IN THE BODY
Prof. opened the doors of his laboratories at the Helmholtz Institute and explained the details of the new research for the first time. Dr. Ertürk emphasized that the spike protein of the virus can remain in the protective layers of the brain and in the bone marrow of the skull for years, even after the disease is overcome. Ertürk also managed to show in minute detail on mice where the virus settled in the body with the DISCO Transparency technique. Thanks to three-dimensional mapping, it was visually demonstrated that the original virus that first appeared in Wuhan settled only in the lungs, while later variants could settle in almost every organ, from the stomach to the heart, from the lungs to the kidneys, and even to the testicles and ovaries. Prof. noted that while the influenza virus only settles in the lungs, the coronavirus spreads almost to the entire body. Dr. Ertürk emphasized that Covid will lead to an increase in many diseases that affect not only brain and heart diseases, but also other organs such as kidneys and liver.
THE SECRET OF PROLONGED COVID: PROTEINS ACCUMULATE LIKE GARBAGE
Prof. Dr. Ertürk said: “Until now, it was always thought that the skull was like a cap, only protecting the brain. In our first study on this subject, we showed that this is not the case, and that the skull is a living part of the brain. Because there are small gates in the skull. It connects the cells in the skull to the brain.” We showed this through transparency and three-dimensional scanning. Our research was published in the journal Cell. After this study, we wanted to investigate whether these doors would also be effective in other diseases. We started to investigate a hypothesis whether it can collect and enter the brain. We worked with the data of hundreds of patients. We examined the skulls of more than 50 patients who died after Covid, compared to approximately 60 patients who were still alive with Long Covid (extended Covid) and patients who did not experience prolonged Covid. We noticed that the proteins that cause inflammation and damage to neurons increased. This study is really important because it was not known that the spike protein of the coronavirus remained in the body for such a long time, we have proven this definitively. “We have shown that perhaps one hundred percent of the diseases that occur after the corona, which we call Long Covid, are caused by proteins that have increased in the body and remain around like garbage.”
‘IT IS SCARY THAT IT HAS NOT DISAPPEARED AND HAVE BEEN STORED FOR YEARS’
Prof. Dr. Ertürk said, “The scary part is that the spike proteins in these places do not disappear. They remain hidden in those parts of the skull for years and can pass to the brain. When they pass to the brain, they cause both inflammation, vascular disorders and disintegration. What does this mean? It affects the healthy state (immunity) of the brain.” ) We saw that the outer part of the brain, the region we call the cortex, is more affected than the inner parts, because this area of the brain is closer to the skull, our thinking, our memory. “Our character is a place where there are regions that control many things. This effect can both cause new neurological diseases to emerge from scratch and trigger existing predispositions. There may be an increase in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s and neuropsychiatric diseases such as depression and schizophrenia,” he said.
‘PROLONGED COVID MAY HAVE A BIGGER IMPACT THAN THE PANDEMIC’
Noting that they also studied where the virus spread in the body by using transparency in animal models, Ertürk gave the following information:
“Here, we saw that the influenza virus only stays in the lungs. Likewise, the Wuhan virus, which is the first type of coronavirus to appear, also affects the lungs. But the variants after Delta and Omicron spread throughout the body. Actually, it is a scary picture when you look at this information. Because the virus somehow coexists with the variants.” It has created a goal of spreading more throughout the body and reaching the brain more. As the variants become more diverse, their capacity to reach different tissues in the body increases. Even young people can now get some diseases at a very early age due to these spike proteins accumulating in the body. The increase in heart diseases is probably due to coronavirus spike proteins spreading throughout the body. We have clearly shown this in our study. Currently, approximately 60 percent of the world has had Covid, and this means more than 10 to 15 percent of them have had prolonged Covid. “So 400 to 600 million people may have Long Covid. Unfortunately, the impact of Long Covid will increase. Maybe it will be a much bigger problem than Covid.”
‘GARBAGE ACCUMULATION’ IS HALF IN VACCINATED PEOPLE
Prof. Dr. Ertürk concluded his words by emphasizing that this study also proves that heart diseases, which are thought to increase after the pandemic, cannot be attributed to Covid vaccines: “Heart diseases are increasing, all diseases are increasing, and not because of vaccines, but because of the effects of coronavirus on the whole body. There is a certain amount of spike protein in vaccines, too, but The virus creates billions of times more spike protein than the protein in vaccines. However, we have seen that approximately 50 percent of this garbage-like spike protein has decreased in people who have been vaccinated. “There is less accumulation than half. This is good news. Of course, the bad news is, how will we deal with the remaining 50 percent? Our goal is to clean it up, and if we can do this, we can probably prevent these effects.”
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