Recently another doctor referred to extra bodyfat affecting the hormones secreted (which is true) and causing metabolic syndrome. But I think it is the food choices (sugar, grains, seed oils & processed junk) that caused both the fat and the metabolic syndrome.

I agree with you Werebear; I too was eating healthywholegrains and mostly vegetarian & vegan foods in the early 1990s, but caught more colds that ever. Since I switched to VLC in 1999, I've never had a bad cold or flu, so hopefully my immune system will be able to fight C-19 too. A laughed when a local vegan & marathon runner went on the news to tell his Covid story. Overexercising also depresses the immune system, Mr 'Healthy'.

The blood clots are a weird twist, but in the olden days people with fevers were given aspirin (a blood thinner), whereas now they are told to avoid NSAIDs and take Tylenol instead.