How a Vegan Diet Protects Against COVID-19 | Dr. Andy Chan
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 7 June 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
A study examining the diets of more than 600,000 people and COVID-19 is examined when Dr. Andrew Chan joins "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll on The Exam Room Podcast.
Topics Discussed
- Immune response of someone eating standard diet vs. plant-based diet
- Why vegans appears less likely to become infected
- Why a plant-based diet could reduce severity of infection
- Inflammatory responses to food and fighting infection
- Best foods for strongest immune response
Dr. Chan is co-author of the peer-reviewed study and is a professor of immunology and infectious diseases at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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COVID-19 Vegan Diet Study
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ICNM
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Dr. Andy Chan
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Chuck Carroll
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Physicians Committee
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| 0:00.0 | If you take two different people and expose them to the virus, some people get sicker than |
| 0:07.0 | others, some people don't even get sick at all. |
| 0:10.0 | Why is it that that is the case? |
| 0:11.6 | There must be something about that individual. |
| 0:14.0 | So we hypothesized that maybe it had to do with diets. |
| 0:22.1 | Welcome to the Exam Room Podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:26.1 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion, Chuck Carroll. |
| 0:29.5 | Thank you so very much for raising your health IQ with us in more than 130 countries and |
| 0:34.3 | healthy cities coast to coast. |
| 0:36.7 | Alva, Florida, Cloverdale, California, Copenhagen, Denmark. |
| 0:41.7 | We appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier place. |
| 0:46.0 | This is episode 43 of season 5, number 342 overall. |
| 0:53.0 | Shifting our attention back to COVID-19, that is what we will be doing today. |
| 0:57.8 | As we speak with Dr. Andy Chan, he is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School as well |
| 1:03.4 | as a professor of immunology and infectious diseases at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public |
| 1:09.3 | Health. |
| 1:10.6 | But more to the point today, he is also co-author of an enormous study of more than 600,000 |
| 1:18.1 | people that explores the link between the pandemic and the food we are eating. |
| 1:25.0 | The title of his research, diet quality, and risk and severity of COVID-19. |
| 1:33.4 | So we are going to learn why people eating a plant-based diet are less likely to become |
| 1:38.3 | severely ill when they are infected, but also, interestingly, why they are less likely |
| 1:45.0 | to become infected at all? |
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