One of the biggest threats to our health in the modern world is stress. Stress has been associated with so many chronic and deadly diseases. Minimizing your stress is important through lifestyle management including getting enough sleep, exercising daily, spending time with people you enjoy, doing things you love doing, laughing, in addition to things […]
Stress Increases Susceptibility To Viral Infections
COVID-19 Risks and You
Modifiable COVID-19 Risks People are concerned about getting covid-19 and are spending a huge amount of time washing hands, using hand sanitizer, wearing masks, and avoiding everyone. UK cardiologist, Aseem Malhotra, talks about what he calls the elephant in the room with COVID 19, your metabolic health (link below). All the things above may provide […]
Improving Your Health In The Age Of COVID-19 and Beyond.
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 […]
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 […]
90% of Adults Hospitalized For COVID-19 Have Significant Chronic Health Problems
Good News, Bad News. 90% of those adults hospitalized for severe COVID19 complications have a significant underlying health condition with a significant skew towards older people. The most common risk factors are being older (particularly older than 65), hypertension, obesity, chronic lung disease, diabetes mellitus, and cardiovascular disease. The hospitalization rate during the four-week period […]
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