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Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminute Fasting Podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. So I had this question from someone that wanted to know,

if I gargle with salt water, 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.

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. Because if we just

take salt, sodium chloride, okay? Now, there are certain enzymes in the inner skin barrier inside

your body that can convert chloride into hypochlorous acid. Now this acid is the main ingredient in bleach that is very

antimicrobial. It's been known to kill viruses. And guess what? Certain immune cells like the phagocytes

that eat up the virus and bacteria and fungus and dead cells in your body,

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