How Glucose Is Required For Viral Infections

How Glucose Is Required For Viral Infections.

In order to replicate itself a virus hijacks the cell and it’s glucose using machinery for energy.

This is a great, but highly technical article that describes exactly this process.

Viral Hikacking Of Cellular Machinery Conclusions (from article cited below):

“Many studies have demonstrated that viruses reprogram cell metabolism and rely on metabolic changes for optimal virus replication.”

What this means in the context of this excellent article is that the virus requires sugar to take over the cell’s replicating machinery.

This is just like cancer cells which is a topic also covered in this research paper.

Again, a ketogenic diet is by definition a low sugar diet that switches the cell’s metabolisms to using ketone bodies (fat) for fuel instead of sugar.

Abnormally high replicating cells like those seen in infections and cancer generally can not use ketones for fuel, they require sugar.

Reference:
Viral hijacking of cellular metabolism
https://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12915-019-0678-9

The BEST way to ultimately control your blood sugar levels is to quit spiking it by eating too many carbohydrates (juice, cokes, sweetened drinks, candy, ice cream, yogurt, chips, grains, fruit, … among other things).