If you are concerned about getting covid-19, the absolutely best thing you can do is to improve your health, especially metabolic health by eating better, exercising daily, reducing stress (ie. quit paying attention to all the doomsday news), improve sleep, get outside in the sun, and do some things you love doing. The greatest risk […]
Aspirin May Have Made 1918 Flu Pandemic Worse
Medical Use Of Aspirin May Have Made 1918 Flu Pandemic Worse Interestingly, by many reports both Chiropractors and Osteopaths (they used to be like Chiropractors and were in 1918) were more successful treating infected patients during the Spanish Flu Epidemic when compared to the horrible numbers treated by their Medical Doctor counterparts. Treatments between these […]
Does a Ketogenic Diet protect against viral infections ?
Does a Ketogenic diet protect against viral infections? There is no specific evidence that nutritional ketosis will help specifically protect against COVID-19. It’s too new of a virus to have done the research on COVID-19. HOWEVER, there is evidence that a ketogenic diet can improve immune system function against other viruses. Animal studies published in […]
Low Cholesterol Reduces Immune Function
A potential concern during the covid19 pandemic. Low cholesterol, viral immunity, and risks associated with an earlier death. These studies are not specific to the new coronavirus, but to other infectious respiratory viral diseases (and in all cause mortality). Patients taking a cholesterol lowering statin had 38-67% lower titers for influenza which indicates an immunosuppressant effect on […]
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 […]
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