I have a question that is way too politically incorrect to ask in real life. But since there are many medical professionals here, I'd like to take the chance to find out.
This all stems from COVID research. I was going down the rabbit hole of how covid and obesity together makes the disease deadlier.
Looking at how once ppl get to a certain size, the cardiovascular system can no longee supply enough oxygen to every part of the body so parts start dying off.
Now, can the same be said about our nervous system? Our skin's feeling of touch. Is it possible that as your surface area expands while the amount of neurons stays constant, the feelings you get from the skin gets less intense?
[Disclaimer: not a professional MD, all my opinions are just what they are not advice]
Having said this, I'd like to mention that I have been personally doing my own health research for decades now as a (serious) hobby. I have helped myself and others with good success for a variety of ailments*. I have very close friends who survived C19 with various degrees of success, whom I have been in touch with all the time. And I myself ended up also catching it, fortunately got out of it fine.
In a nutshell, C19 is like any other bad cold EXCEPT that it is very dangerous once it gets your lungs infected - at that point you lose oxygen, if the infection continues your body gets into that cytokine storm where your own immune system fights your body indiscriminately. Nowadays the docs know to calm down that overreaction with dextamethasone or some other meds, give you an oxygen mask to help with the Oxygen deficiency, and lo and behold your body gets back to health if all goes well. I'm skipping over details, but you can probably find them out for yourself**.
In relation to obesity, then: the initial simple answer would be that inasmuch as obesity correlates with a weakened immune system, the exposure to C19 is worse for obese persons. This also comes from a related issue: more advanced doctors (those high priced
functional medicine trained/ certified ones in particular) recommend the
Keto diet in general for C19 and especially in case of obesity.
Whether obesity can be threatening at the level of death, this is of course a gray issue, depending on many conditions, but my feeling is that with all we know AND all the various methods (some not publicized or forbidden to be talked about for fear of reprisals if you are an MD etc) to help fight the virus, the odds are
very good for survival/ cure.
Hope this helps - all the best
(*) One thing I found is that
1/- it is very hard to find an appropriate MD - much like finding a good mechanic, it's very much like artists - diplomas or certification/ popularity aren't sufficient to find the best ones for your condition***
2/ doctors have to keep their livelihood and license up as their first priority, which is understandable, so sometimes
3/ a non traditional mainstream MD approved treatment is sometimes better suited for curing certain issues .
(**) Unfortunately Google is now very censored (same for Yahoo / MSN etc), and even standard established not so controversial sites like Mercola's are on the verge of being shut or hidden from Google searches. Those of traditional MD's who do deviate ever so little from the "official" recommendations are forced by the FTC / CDC / FDA to remove useful health information. Mercola's is an anomaly, probably because he as the means to fight these attacks in court, for now.
(***) For each condition, there are absolutely best world doctors/ surgeons, some in well known hospitals/ clinics, some in not so well known ones. Takes so much effort to figure out, there are now high priced health advisors just to navigate the field. Even then you still end up having to make the final decisions. For example Steve Jobs made a fatal decision not to consult the special MD (Dr N. Gonzalez) his acupuncturist had recommended, because after following his Zen buddhist adviser his situation got worse so he let a panel of scientists guide him exclusively. They did a great job, within their limits, and Steve Jobs lasted a bit longer than otherwise - but wasn't cured, which I am very certain would have happened with Dr Gaonzalez.