doi: 10.4161/cc.19841
Depleting hormone levels are a fact of the aging process
Ringel et al., 2021), and IgM natural antibodies, TLR inhibitors, modulators of cellular components (neutrophils, basophils, eosinophils, mast cells, monocytes, macrophages, dendritic cells, regulatory T cells, natural killer cells) of innate immunity, cellular components of both innate and adaptive immune systems ( T cells, natural killer T cells), soluble constituents of adaptive immunity (polyreactive IgM antibodies to the viral disease, among others), and cellular components of adaptive immunity (T cell subsets like Th1 CD4+ T cells, cytotoxic CD8+ T cells, Th2 cells, Th17 cells, Th9 cells), viral replication inhibitors, renin-angiotensin system inhibitors (Williams, 2021) and human recombinant soluble ACE2 (Abd El-Aziz et al., 2020), as well as heparin and glycosaminoglycan antithrombotics (Magnani, 2021), among others
Exposure to heavy metals increases free radical production and oxidative stress