Why Diabetes Makes You More Susceptible to Viruses
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 21 April 2020
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Did you know diabetes makes you more susceptible to viruses (like COVID-19)? Find out why.
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Today we’re going to talk about why diabetes can make you more susceptible to getting viruses like COVID-19. Being a diabetic actually triples the mortality rate from the COVID-19 virus.
The virus enters the cell through your own body’s receptor. This type of receptor is called the ACE2 receptor. The virus enters and starts to replicate. The more ACE2 receptors you have on your cells, the more susceptible you could be to this virus.
• Diabetics have a lot more ACE2 receptor proteins on their cells.
• People with high blood glucose have more ACE2 receptor proteins on their cells.
• People with higher amounts of insulin have more ACE2 receptor proteins on their cells.
A few additional things to be aware of:
• Insulin resistance can impair your immune response to a virus.
• People with hyperglycemia (high sugar) have a decrease in neutrophils. Neutrophils eat viruses, they release anti-microbial chemicals that kill pathogens, and they use NETS to dissolve microbes with chemicals. If you don’t have enough neutrophils, your immune system is going to be compromised, and your body won’t have the weapons to fight off viruses.
If you have diabetes and you’re concerned about COVID-19 (coronavirus), you may want to consider decreasing your carbs (the healthy keto diet) and intermittent fasting. This could potentially help greatly improve diabetes and help support the immune system.
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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 today I want to talk about why diabetes makes you more susceptible to getting viruses. |
| 0:51.7 | And more specifically I'm talking about COVID-19. Being a diabetic |
| 0:57.0 | triples the mortality rate from this virus. But the question is why. Well, here's why. The virus enters the cell |
| 1:08.6 | through your own body's receptor And the type of receptor is this right here, |
| 1:15.4 | ACE2 receptor. |
| 1:16.8 | So it goes in there and it starts to replicate. |
| 1:20.5 | So here's the thing. |
| 1:21.6 | The more ACE2 receptors you have on your cells the higher the |
| 1:27.7 | susceptibility to this virus you're going to be and diabetics have a lot more ACE-2 receptor proteins on their cells. |
| 1:38.0 | People with high blood glucose have more |
| 1:44.8 | higher amounts of insulin also have higher amounts of these |
| 1:48.8 | receptors and this is why they're more susceptible to viruses. |
| 1:53.2 | However, there's a couple of additional reasons that you need to know about. |
| 1:57.2 | Number one, the condition insulin resistance. |
| 2:01.0 | And by the way, about 75% of the population has incident resistance. |
| 2:08.1 | So it's very, very, very common. |
| 2:10.5 | Incident resistance can impair your immune response to. Insular |
| 2:13.0 | immune response to a virus, |
| 2:16.0 | but that's not all. |
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