Lowering blood insulin levels could lower your risk of getting COVID-19 (by medicine, diet, or exercise)

Medical XPress / Osaka University / Diabetes ^ | Oct. 25, 2021 | Jihoon Shin et al

[ConservativeMind]

Keeping blood insulin levels within strict, healthy parameters is a daily goal for people with diabetes. But now, researchers from Japan have found that regulating blood insulin levels may even help lower the risk of getting COVID-19.

In a study published this month in Diabetes, researchers from Osaka University have revealed that a protein called GRP78 helps the virus that causes COVID-19 bind to and enter cells. GRP78 is a protein that is found in adipose tissue (i.e., fat). Older, obese, and diabetic people are all more vulnerable to COVID-19 and, while the reasons for this are still not completely clear, the team from Osaka University sheds some light on this issue.

"It was recently suggested that adipose tissue might be a major reservoir for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19," says lead author of the study Jihoon Shin. "Because of this, we wanted to investigate whether there is any link between the excess adipose tissue in older, obese, and diabetic patients and their vulnerability to COVID-19."

"The results were very clear," explains senior author Iichiro Shimomura. "GRP78 gene expression was highly upregulated in adipose tissue, and was elevated with increasing age, obesity, and diabetes."

Aging, obesity, and diabetes are known to be associated with increased blood insulin levels. Therefore, the group wondered whether insulin was involved in GRP78 expression. They found that exposing cells to insulin did induce expression of GRP78. Importantly, they discovered that treatment using widely prescribed anti-diabetic drugs that reduce insulin levels successfully reduce expression level of GRP78. They went a step further and showed that exercise and calorie restriction in a mouse-model also worked to reduce GRP78 levels in adipose tissue.

[ConservativeMind]

Any approach taken to reduce insulin helped.

It’s interesting it wasn’t glucose as the focus.

[doug from upland]

[BobL]

“Any approach taken to reduce insulin helped. It’s interesting it wasn’t glucose as the focus.”

Very interesting. If one is a Type 2 diabetic and treating it per Fauchi, they are FLOODING their bodies with insulin.

If they want to reduce insulin, without going Keto, they then have to live with high blood glucose.

We’re told that high glucose levels lead to diabetic complications, but Jason Fung showed a study comparing diabetic complications for people ‘treating’ their diabetes, versus people not ‘treating’ it. The result: No difference...shooting oneself up with insulin doesn’t seem to provide any benefit.

Of course people could ask why, then, should Type 2’s keep shooting up insulin...but I doubt the medical community is ready to go there yet.

[GOP Poet]

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[Secret Agent Man]

Of course it will.

People here eat an enormous amount of refined sugars.

Refined sugar weakens your immune system, among other problems it causes.

And it weakens it significantly, and quickly after being eaten.