Posted on 07/27/2020 4:33:02 PM PDT by absalom01
I have been taking fenofibrate for several years. Don’t get lung infections as a rule, but my sinuses make up for it big time.
Fenofibrate is a different class of drug.
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One of the gazillion drugs I take every day.
At 75 years old, I’m in the danger zone for the Chinese flu.
LOW CARB / KETO PING!!!
Thanks ConservativeMind. Its been a while since I pinged the gang here, but then there hasn’t been much on low carb due to the virus. For this article, while it’s not directly saying that low carb is good for dealing with the virus, it does seem to imply it, which I suspect most of us know instinctively anyway.
[p.s., anyone wanting to join, or leave, my Low-Carb ping list, just let me know, privately or publicly]
Ping
The big SARS outbreak was 2002–2004. I bought the mask stash that I started COVID with a year or two later, because of SARS. They’d been in the prepper closet all those years, until COVID. All good made in USA stuff, 3M and Moldex. Past nominal expiration dates, but they’d been in a climate controlled basement, appear fine.
India has big numbers on prophylactic HCQ, and they’re good. If you dig around in the Twitter link I posted earlier, you can find some of their numbers on that.
Me too! Plus another couple of boxes due to wildfires. I bought a bunch of rubber-bands in case I need to replace the elastic bands which seem to be the weak point. Have a few masks with broken straps - some day I’ll fix them up. I have enough now that I can let them sit 2-3 days which is one way of getting them decontaminated.
Since the apparent route proposed here is a reduction of triglycerides in the blood, the paleo and keto diets ought to have the same effect. No?
THIS. A thousand times this.
(not sure about the no protein aspect)
*** “Pretty early on there was a finding that people on Keto diets where less susceptible to Covid. That would gel with the info presented here” ***
Anyone that fixed any “itis” can withstand the common cold
just cut out the Carbs, the source of most Inflammation.
As I understand it just about all diseases need an entry point that is usually an “itis” which is just a fancy way of saying any prolonged inflammation...
PS
I have absolutely ZERO concern about COVID personally Healthwise (and I am over 65) ... everything it is doing to our Country is quite another-thing. And... Mask’s are just Stupid.
Well, I’m not a doctor, just some rando posting stuff off of the internets, but from this paper, I don’t think that diet alone would have the same effects.
According to the guys quoted, they figured out that the virus mucks up at least three enzymes in infected cells, and that the fenofibrate interferes with that interference, and prevents the synthesis of viral protiens.
Myself, I’m amazed that this level of detail could have been discovered so quickly. Biology has certainly come a long way in the past couple of decades.
So training the body to use fat instead of carbs would mean less fat if you don’t add in carbs. That to me seems to be the Keto plan. Let your body process fat.
The facts on the keto diet and cholesteral | KETO-MOJO
https://keto-mojo.com/article/health-keto-diet-cholesterol
May 03, 2019 · The focus should be on triglycerides and HDL and research is showing that a low-carb ketogenic diet usually results in improved cholesterol profile by lowering triglycerides and increasing HDL. Slightly higher LDL cholesterol is typically offset by having lower small particle LDL (associated with heart disease) and higher large particle LDL (not associated with heart disease).
Boo yah! I saw that, too. Keto supposed to help keep down swelling and fluid retention after some surgeries, too.
I just read what was posted for the thread—and it sounded like carbs kicking around led to fat in your lungs. So maybe you could use this treatment to deal with that, or maybe by not eating carbs to start with you wouldn’t have carbs in your system to cause the trouble to start with? I’m obviously no biologist.
Where did you hear the liver converts fat into glucose?
I find my glucose stabilizes around 83-85. Currently, my wife and I just eat “lower carb,” but with intermittent fasting, my wife’s recent blood test (two weeks ago) showed glucose of 83, with a prior one two months ago at 87. She and I both found ourselves at 107-108 five years ago and that made us shift away from high juice/carb use. We were drinking a lot of tart cherry and pomegranate juice for the antioxidants, but despite not tasting “sweet,” those had a ton of natural sugars.
Here are a few resources on the use of fat as blood sugar:
The Production of Glucose From Protein or Fat
https://www.livestrong.com/article/457948-the-production-of-glucose-from-protein-or-fat/
Does Fat Convert to Glucose in the Body?
https://www.livestrong.com/article/495873-the-conversion-of-fat-to-glucose-in-the-body/
Optimal blood glucose and ketone levels for ketosis
https://optimisingnutrition.com/the-glucose-ketone-relationship/
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