Aug 18, 2020
How does a ketogenic diet affect Covid-19? Do T cells have an impact on your immune response? Find out on Episode 1668 of The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show.
“What if the hydroxybutyrate in your blood could give you a fighting chance when it comes to Covid-19?”
- Jimmy Moore
A lot of people in the keto and carnivore community right now
are discussing the importance of eating better as a means of
lowering glucose, inflammation, and insulin levels to improve
overall metabolic health. There’s certainly nothing wrong with that
messaging and I agree with it for the most part. But what about the
role of ketone bodies themselves and how they can help fight viral
infections like the seasonal flu and even COVID-19? New research
reveals some exciting details.
In this episode of JIMMY RANTS on The LLVLC Show, I read from a
2020 study published in the journal Med entitled “Investigating
Ketone Bodies as Immunometabolic Countermeasures against
Respiratory Viral Infections” by Brianna J. Stubbs, etal. I’m gonna
warn you ahead of time that this is a very science jargon-laden
paper (NERD ALERT 
) looking at very meticulous pathways by
which the ketone body beta-hydroxybutyrate (BHB) works
mechanistically to fight off viral infections. But if you can stick
this one out, then it’s pretty fascinating stuff!
We also share about T cells and low-carb diets being the key in
your body having a good chance of effectively fighting off
COVID-19. The T cells, which are part of your immune system, can
actually destroy the virus even without antibody production. How
many people have fought off COVID-19 with their T cells and yet
have no evidence that they’ve been exposed to the virus? How many
more people have been exposed to COVID-19 than are in the
statistics? Why aren’t we hearing about this in the national
media?
As for low-carb diets playing a strong role in this discussion, I
share an article from @marikasboros going
into detail about statistics of those being ravaged the worst by
this virus all being people with the worst metabolic health. And
you heal this insulin resistance best with carbohydrate
restriction.