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Now, your host, the man taking your health to a whole new level, Dr. Eric Berg.

So I had this question from someone that wanted to know, if I gargle with saltwater, will

that kill the coronavirus?

Well, let's talk about that.

So first of all, I want to say that there's no studies that I found that demonstrate

gargling with saltwater will actually kill this virus, okay?

However, that being said, there is some research that shows that gargling with saltwater

could potentially prevent certain viruses from going down into the lung.

However, before you get into that, I do want to mention that there is some other research

that shows that this coronavirus can replicate in your throat before moving into the lungs.

So they found a high rate of replication and viral shedding during the first week.

Viral shedding has to do with this.

So when the virus goes in the cell and it starts to reproduce and then it decides to leave

your cell and go in somewhere else whether it goes outside your body or in another organ

that's called viral shredding.

And just the fact that you're gargling with salt or just with water, it would appear that

you would dilute the concentration of viruses if there's viruses in there.

I'm going to put all the studies that I found below down in the description.

But this one was interesting because it was talking about the antiviral innate immune

response using salt to support a certain chemical in your immune cells that potentially could

kill the virus.

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