Comments by "Pottenger\x27s Human" (@LTPottenger) on "Thursday 12 March Global update" video.
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How does fasting and low carb diet help with viral infections? First off it lowers your blood sugar and insulin, this allows white blood cells to move more freely throughout the body and do their job. Ideal blood sugar is around 80.
Second it shuts down your ribosomes, which are the factories in your cells used to produce proteins. This is what a virus needs to reproduce and it can't reproduce without them.
Third, it stimulates the AMPK complex and activates autophagy. Autophagy (literally self eating) will causes cells to recycle foreign matter such as viruses. AMPK does many helpful things in the body including activating the body's antioxidant defenses.
Fasting also puts you into deep ketosis, which virtually eliminates inflammation in the body. This can offset the life threatening symptoms of viral pneumonia which effectively kills you through inflammation. This also creates BHB ketones in your body, which help your immune system.
Fasting also increase mitochondrial function and repairs their DNA leading to improved ATP production and oxygen efficiency, making cells better able to fight off infection. Ketones from ketosis also provide an additional energy source during infection, which is critical when trying to fight off a bug.
When you fast, your T and B cells retreat to the bone marrow and are renewed at a genetic level, each cell having all its DNA repaired. This supercharges your immune system and makes your cells young again. On top of all this, fasting encourages the direct apoptosis (death) of infected cells, shortcutting the typically length process of killing them off through macrophages.
Simply reducing your meals to one a day could dramatically increase your ability to reduce infection, and longer fasts of a few days of a time have always very quickly killed off any flu or other infection I have suffered from.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autophagy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMP-activated_protein_kinase
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribosome
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketosis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytokine_storm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sepsis
https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1537&context=edissertations
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(19)30849-9
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25686106
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24905167
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10859646
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0005272806000223
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1413655/
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