The lifelong Norfolk resident, generous philanthropist and dedicated volunteer died Saturday at her home. She was 84 and had lived with Alzheimer’s disease for years, her son said.
About 5 years ago, Carrera Alvarez was going through a tough time. She was in the middle of a tumultuous divorce, and rather than letting her stress go, she found herself internalizing it, day after day. As her stress level intensified, so did other health problems. Taking a shower one day, Alvarez looked at the drain and was stunned by the large clump of hair she saw there.
But it wasn’t until Alvarez, 41, a hairdresser herself, was in another stylist’s chair that she learned just how much of her hair was gone. “The stylist said, ‘Carrera, your hair has changed so much, it’s very thin, and you’ve got patches missing,” recalls the Los Angeles native. “And I said, ‘What?’ Her advice you really need to figure out what’s going on made me realize how bad it was.”
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The group led by three physicians with a knack for making headlines posted its own review and meta-analysis of the global ivermectin literature on its website.
They maintain that ivermectin has a special combination of anti-viral and anti-inflammatory properties that make it useful preventively and for treating early and late-stage illness.
Too good to be true? Not in the mind of FLCCC co-leader Paul Marik, MD, chief of pulmonary and critical care medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, who co-authored the review and meta-analysis based mainly on studies from outside the U.S. People are dying, Marik said during a phone interview. We treat patients at the bedside. We don t have the ivory tower syndrome where you tell people what to do though you have no idea what you re doing.