Fast Food Weakens Your Immunity, Raises Susceptibly to COVID-19

 

Link to Show Notes and References:

00:20 Improving your diet and lifestyle, improves your body’s defenses. It should not have been controversial.

Reference:

Bohlouli, J., Moravejolahkami, A. R., Dashti, M. G., Zehi, Z. B., Kermani, M. A. H., Borzoo-Isfahani, M., & Bahreini-Esfahani, N. (2021). COVID-19 and Fast Foods Consumption: a Review. International Journal of Food Properties, 24(1), 203–209. 

01:00 A bolus amount of sugar shifts immune cells for the worse in people who are pre-diabetic.

01:54 COVID-19 outcomes for people who eat unhealthy diets, can include chronic disorders such as dementia, neurodegenerative disease.

02:38 The more pre-existing chronic inflammation you have at the time of contracting COVID-19, the more disease severity you may experience.

03:55 Reduce COVID-19 complications with a heathy diet and lifestyle.

04:50 The higher the pre-existing viral load, the higher the probability of having chronic lingering effects after a COVID-19 infection.

05:30 Obese people respond poorly to vaccines, antiviral and antimicrobial drugs.

07:11 Hot food take-away containers can be a source of toxic heavy metals including cadmium, mercury, nickel, lead and arsenic.

07:30 Heavy metals cause endothelial dysfunction. They are linked with cardiovascular complications, obesity and cancer.

10:15 COVID-19 was the 3^rd leading cause of mortality for people over the age of 45 up to October of 2020.

11:48 We seem to ignore the two leading causes of death, cardiovascular disease and cancer, and support companies that produce products that make people sick.

12:50 Heart disease and cancer are risk factors for severe COVID-19 outcomes.

13:30 Even for people in their 30s, heart disease claims more lives than COVID-19.

 14:00 T lymphocytes and B cells, of your adaptive immune system, are negatively affected when you eat junk food.

14:52 Your immune system provides ample long-lasting immunity. People exposed to the first SARS outbreak in 2003 still have immunity.

16:00 Your memory T-cells are largely impacted by your diet and lifestyle.

20:00 In heart disease and cancer, genetics load the gun, but your environment pulls the trigger.

 

 

References:

Wang, E. Y., Mao, T., Klein, J., Dai, Y., Huck, J. D., Liu, F., et al. (2020). Diverse Functional Autoantibodies in Patients with COVID-19. medRxiv, 52, 910–46.

 

Meckiff, B. J., Ramírez-Suástegui, C., Fajardo, V., Chee, S. J., Kusnadi, A., Simon, H., et al. (2020). Imbalance of Regulatory and Cytotoxic SARS-CoV-2-Reactive CD4+ T Cells in COVID-19. Cell, 183(5), 1340–1353.e16.