It’s Not The Virus that Kills You, It’s Your Immune System

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

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🗓️ 2 June 2020

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Today we’re going to talk about viruses and the immune system. It’s not the virus that kills you. It’s actually your own immune system.

The virus doesn’t have a metabolism. It’s not even alive. Here’s what happens. You have this inactive shell with some DNA that has some very specific instructions to replicate. There are certain things on the surface of the virus that connect to certain tissues and certain receptors in the cell.

For example, COVID-19 connects to the ACE2 receptor. Once it connects, it’s able to get into the cell. Once inside of the cell, the immune system doesn’t see it at first. The goal of the virus is to get into the cell and replicate as fast as possible. This creates a lot of damage and an immune reaction, but it’s not what kills you.

Let’s say you have COVID-19, you’re on a respirator, and you have cytokine storm. This is creating massive destruction, which can lead to death. This destructive inflammatory condition is also happening on the inside of your arteries, and it can even create blood clots. The innate part of the immune system is overreacting because part of the adaptive immune system is not working.

The T suppressor cells, which are a part of the adaptive immune system, suppress or regulate the overreaction. But, there is a severe imbalance going on where you lose the adaptive immune system, including the T suppressor cells, and there is too much of the innate immune system causing the overreaction. This is what’s really killing people.

The virus is a trigger, and it causes damage, but the virus mainly seems to kill people with a weak immune system. It’s usually certain metabolic conditions that cause weakness within the T suppressor cells.

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Dr. Berg, 51 years of age is a chiropractor who specializes in weight loss through nutritional & natural methods. His private practice is located in Alexandria, Virginia. His clients include senior officials in the U.S. government & the Justice Department, ambassadors, medical doctors, high-level executives of prominent corporations, scientists, engineers, professors, and other clients from all walks of life. He is the author of The 7 Principles of Fat Burning.

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0:00.0	So if you guys have any questions whatsoever about keto or in a minute fasting,
0:04.4	whether you're starting keto as a new person or just need to debug your program or we have a question about a product.
0:10.5	Call one of our keto consultants. They'll be able to help you. Call 5405.7.
0:29.0	Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Kito and Interminute fasting podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. So it's not the virus that kills you. It's actually your own immune system.
0:48.8	Let's talk about that. So the virus doesn't have a metabolism, it's not even alive, how can something not alive actually
0:57.9	kill you? Well what happens is this, you have this inactive shell with some DNA material in there that has very specific instructions to replicate
1:07.4	because there's certain things on the surface of that virus that connect to certain tissues and certain receptors in your cell like a lock and a key.
1:17.0	Now COVID-19 connects to, let's call the ACE 2 receptor in your cells and then they're able to get into the cell.
1:28.0	Once they're inside the cell, your immune system doesn't see them.
1:31.0	So their goal is to get into the cell as fast as possible
1:34.3	and start to replicate and it hijacks your copy machine, your machinery, your
1:39.7	metabolism to replicate. So that's actually creating a lot of damage and then it creates this immune reaction.
1:47.0	However, that's not what kills you. What kills you is this. Take a look at this. We have two parts of the immune system. We have the innate, which is the system that doesn't need to be trained. It's the first line of defense.
2:02.5	And then we have the special forces
2:04.1	called the adapted part of the immune system.
2:06.3	So if we think about a worst case scenario,
2:08.7	you're in intensive care, you're on a respirator,
2:12.0	you're getting a lot of inflammation going on in the lung.
2:15.0	It's called a cytokine storm, which is a condition where your lungs are on fire.
2:21.0	There's inflammation going on. there's a lot of oxidation, there's a lot of free radical damage,
2:27.6	and it's creating a massive destruction which then creates bleeding and fibrosis and scar tissue where you eventually just stop breathing.
2:35.4	Also, this destructive inflammatory condition is happening on the inside of your arteries
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