Amara Becton Crystal River Middle School seventh grader
Amara Becton is a Citrus County (FL) Middle School seventh grader now being home schooled. She is researching bromelain to help the pandemic. She had been looking for an avenue to get the information to proper authorities.
Her research can be viewed at a web site she created, https://enzyme-cures.org/
Amara received encouragement and support from many community members, including a science teacher, two doctors, a pharmacist and a nutrition author. She received several suggestions and offers of help. Then she saw an article on nutrition research by Adrian F. Gombart. Principal Investigator, Linus Pauling Institute. She sent the research to Gombart with this introduction:
“I am currently being home-schooled during the 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic. My Mom, Natasha Savage, assigned me to study Integrative Therapies for Coronavirus for my science studies. She has researched bromelain after trying it for different things and has given it to my brother and I for flu bugs, so it seemed like a good topic to study during the pandemic. She helped find resources, organize material and prepare this document with me using an APA format as best we could for now to try and help me get ready for college.
Here, we show that there are treatments on the shelf already that would be safe to test on people with CoV-2 and include studies that show they have already been proven to be safe and effective for the same symptoms that Covid patients experience. The majority of the discussions here are written by microbiologists and researchers with their own labs and backgrounds in medicine and microbiology. As a student, I am just trying to learn about the sciences through these topics and found that this enzyme should be considered right away for Covid-19. It is now well over two months into the quarantine for us and we greatly look forward to the end of the pandemic. We do not have connections to labs or researchers, but hope that some labs are studying this enzyme as the research included here holds such promise for this virus. ”
Adrian F. Gombart Principal Investigator, Linus Pauling Institute. Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics Oregon State University
Adrian F. Gombart is Principal Investigator, Linus Pauling Institute. Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics and Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Oregon State University. He has 99 research works with 5491 citations and 5174 reads, including: Optimal Nutritional Status for a Well-Functioning Immune System.
Gombart received Amara`s research and responded with praise for her and a pledge to try to help her: “Kudos to Amara in tackling this topic. I will read through it, but cannot promise that I can get it on anyone’s radar. It is difficult to get medical professionals to consider micronutrients like vitamins C and D. But I am interested in reading about bromelain.