Posted on 11/16/2019 9:27:13 AM PST by BobL
A high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet like the Keto regimen has its fans, but influenza apparently isn't one of them.
Mice fed a ketogenic diet were better able to combat the flu virus than mice fed food high in carbohydrates, according to a new Yale University study published Nov. 15 in the journal Science Immunology.
The ketogenic diet—which for people includes meat, fish, poultry, and non-starchy vegetables—activates a subset of T cells in the lungs not previously associated with the immune system's response to influenza, enhancing mucus production from airway cells that can effectively trap the virus, the researchers report.
"This was a totally unexpected finding," said co-senior author Akiko Iwasaki, the Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Immunobiology and Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, and an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
(Excerpt) Read more at medicalxpress.com ...
Agree
I found lots of normal walking combined with some occasional sprints or just a really long intense hike/climb every week or so to be more than enough cardio...the hour a day cardio regimens are not good for you long term
Does grandma’s chicken soup qualify?
I quit getting sick when I began taking Vitamin D daily. Heck, I’d love to get the flu to drop some poundage - but no luck!
Awesome news!!!!
Im working towards less than 10 grams carb a day now.
I don’t make it every day but am trying!!
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Well, since this is a Keto thread....may I humbly suggest you might try ketogenic to ‘drop some poundage’?
All kinds of benefits.
Thanks for posting and thanks for the ping.
Low Carb MD is my go to podcast. I also found a new doc that I am listening to. Dr. Robert Cywes. He is on various podcasts and you-tube.
The Weimbs Lab in Santa Clara California in October reported that a Keto diet will reverse Polycystic Kidney Disease.
High cholesterol is a condition generated by your own liver, and triglycerides are generated from partial metabolization of various carbohydrates. See, carbs have a hexagonal ring of carbon as their base structure, which is broken into two three-carbon segments, forming the basis for the formation of triglycerides. This first step is called propionic acid. Blood glucose, supposedly the energy carrier in your bloodstream, is only accepted by the cells when there is just the right amount of insulin to effect the transfer. Excess glucose is held by the red blood cells when it does not get metabolized, and is identified by something called the HbA1c ratio, which in non-diabetic persons is somewhere in the range of 5% of all the red blood cells circulating at a given time.
One of the partially metabolized steps of glucose is something called pyruvic acid, evolved from propionic acid, and this is further metabolized into lactic acid, as the oxygen supply gets used. Lactic acid is what causes the “tired” feeling and the pain from great muscle exertion, and is only slowly washed away as the complex regains its normal balance of oxygen.
Fully metabolized glucose is reduced to its component parts, carbon dioxide, and with additional oxygen, water. How do you lose weight? Simple, you exhale CO2 with every breath, or it leaves your body by exuding from the skin surface. The same for excess water, which is also drained from the body through the kidneys and keeps many biologic poisons washed out of the body with the passage of urine.
Fat does not make you fat. In the right ratios of saturated and unsaturated lipids, it serves many functions throughout the body, one of which is as a reserve energy source when glucose or other carbohydrates are is reduced supply.
Fasts lasting for 36 hours or longer force the body to convert to this fat-burning mode, as all blood glucose is depleted within the first 24 hours of the fast.
Remember to stay hydrated, though, or the fast is ineffectual.
High cholesterol and triglycerides come from eating too much sugar.
Your body makes cholesterol, it can produce too much in response to too much sugar intake. It doesn’t come from the cholesterol you eat. In fact, almost all of the dietary cholesterol is excreted from the body.
Also make sure you get plenty of Omega-3 fats as opposed to Omega-6 fats, as these cause inflammation.
Get your fats from fatty fish, remember SMASH (Salmon, Mackerel, Anchovies, Sardines, Herring), and from Grass-Finished Beef.
I’ve always believed that virus’ Use sugar for energy. A low carb diet starves them of sugar and makes it easier for our bodies to defeat them. I am not a doctor or medical researcher but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express one time.
When I go seriously low carb, I rarely if ever get sick for more than a day or two.
The key with Keto, is to make sure you get your nutrients, usually nutrient deficiencies are what cause the “Keto Flu”. And usually that is the result of doing “Dirty Keto”, which is an over-reliance on a few high-fat low-carb foods.
Thank you for that! Listening now.
Yes, they are!
Dr. Cywes ... he’s a “bull in a china shop”, isn’t he? I mean that in a ‘good’ way. Doesn’t spare the truth!! I first heard him on the podcast I referenced and now I follow him on FB & his youtube channel so I get to see more of his stuff. I’d like to turn him loose on two relatives of mine (one obese & one getting close to obese - love them both lots & it’s ‘killing’ me to see them self-destructing). :-)
Thanks for that link, btw ... I can start binge-listening this afternoon again! Podcast Republic is my go-to for all sorts of podcasts ... they’re still “down” so it’s nice to have an alternative site.
Combining Keto with Intermittent Fasting is really the ticket. Fasting helps the gut flora, which also provides a big boost to the body’s immune system.
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