Dr. Carter is a board-certified physician. Over the past 10 years, Dr. Carter has expanded his education into functional or root-cause medicine, initially driven by a personal struggle with glaucoma. He has obtained an impressive amount of continuing educational certifications in topics including: stem cells, energy medicine, nutrition, advanced peptides, cancer treatment, and solutions to Alzheimer’s disease. Dr. Lewis holds a Ph.D. from MIT and continuing education from the Harvard School of Public Health. Since his dad came down with Alzheimer’s 20 years ago, he has dedicated his life to determining how to better predict Alzheimer’s and chronic diseases in general. Paragraph They hone in on how certain pharmaceutical drugs actually may make a person more susceptible to COVID-19 and increase the risk of dying from the disease. In particular, certain blood pressure medications biologic drugs, anti-inflammatory drugs, gut acid suppressing drugs and cholesterol lowering may make COVID-19 worse, or even fatal. You need a strong immune system to fight the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Many common prescription medications “manage” disease symptoms. Most of these drugs manage symptoms by suppressing your immune response. You often feel better on these pharmaceuticals but you are also made more vulnerable to severe disease like COVID-19.