Let us look at six tips for low carb coronavirus preparedness. You know about adopting social distancing. I’m sure you’ve heard that and hopefully are implementing that but also how to stock your fridge with low carb options I mean so many people are going to the stores and buying the pastas and the crackers and the dried goods that basically last forever but eggs can last for five weeks in the fridge. With enough preparation and enough thought you really can stick with a low carb lifestyle, eat healthy even during this period of a self-quarantine or sheltering in place in promoting social isolation.

Boosting your immune system to fight the corona virus; we’ve seen fantastical claims on what vitamin C can do about, what silver nanoparticles can do, what essential oils can do but what is the evidence really show? Our immune system isn’t just one thing. Our immune system is this intricate system where everything sort of plays together and it has to do with our baseline health and it has to do with so many different factors on the inner play on each other. It’s hard to test any experimental study. What we want to know is does something reduce your risk of getting an infection?

We don’t really have any high-quality human data to say that eating low carb or eating keto is going to reduce your risk of getting the corona virus. That does not exist now. There was a recent study in mice that showed a keto diet reduced their risk of getting influenza.

The higher the blood sugar, the higher the infection risk and the lower the chance of recovering from infections. So, putting all that together make sense that you want a diet you want a lifestyle that’s going to keep your blood sugar low. Keep your blood sugar steady.

The basics: the hand washing, not smoking because of the lung complications, getting adequate sleep now actually studies showing that you’re more prone to infection risks with less than seven hours of sleep. Certainly less than five hours of sleep in one night likely isn’t going to do it but if it adds up over time then you might be at higher risk and one of the things that impacts sleep the most is the blue light from our devices and if we’re all shut in and locked at home one thing we were doing more of is more tablets, more phones, more computers, so get those blue blocking glasses on or look for other activities that don’t involve tech. This is a great opportunity to read books not e-books but read books.

Exercise is a great one because there’s studies that show that long-term exercise let can improve immune function in your decreased risk of infections. Now, those are observational trials. They have confounding various bolts but here’s the kicker, there’s enough to suggest that you shouldn’t try long term or sorry long duration greater than an hour and a half or high intensity exercise acutely because that may acutely decrease your immune system. Also athletes who overtrained or at a higher risk of infection so I encourage people to get outside be active, do moderate exercise but avoid the high-intensity interval training. Certainly, if you’re new to it and if you already do it maybe bring it down a notch just to help reduce that risk of suppressing your immune system temporarily of course.

Stress management is a big one and also drinking alcohol in moderation. A lot of people are turning to alcohol to sort of deal with the frustration and the stress and I get that. There’s plenty of evidence out there; heavy drinking can suppress the immune system and increase risk of infections.

Vitamin C supplement is another big one. Vitamin C is a water-soluble. Vitamin at 2,000 milligrams or less there’s likely no danger to taking it. So, I recommend people take up to 2,000 milligrams a day to help reduce your risk of infection especially in a time like this.

Vitamin D that actually is a large meta-analysis on Studies on vitamin D that showed supplementing did slightly reduce the risk of infection. Most prominently in those who are low on their vitamin D level. So, if you are low now is the chance to get that level up right now, it is the time I should say to get that level up. You can supplement with two thousand international units.

Other things like zinc may be helpful. If you’re going to take zinc, take it orally and less than 40 milligrams per day and that also may be beneficial as there’s some evidence that says that reduces the duration of a cold.

Stay tuned with Zeeable for more of such updates and news!!

Share this: Twitter

Facebook



Like this: Like Loading...