Why Smoking Spikes the Risk for COVID-19?

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Dr. Eric Berg

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🗓️ 21 April 2020

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Today we’re going to talk about why smoking can increase the risk of COVID-19 complications. Smoking could also increase your risk of getting an infection in your lungs.

Smoking is a risk factor because it can significantly increase ACE2 receptors. In your cells, you have a lot of different receptors, and there’s one for the ACE2 protein, which is an enzyme.

The way that the coronavirus gets into the cell is through this little ACE2 portal. COVID-19 has little projections that basically connect to the ACE2 receptors. Once it connects, the doors open, and it can go into the cell and create destruction. Smoking can increase the number of little portals. The more portals this virus can enter, the more susceptible you are to getting an infection.

The lung tissue actually has the most concentration of these ACE2 receptors. Once the coronavirus is in your lungs, it creates a lot of damage within the airways. At this point, you can start to develop scar tissue and fluid in the airways. The membranes become thickened, and you start to lose your capacity to exchange oxygen and CO2.

It’s the chronic nicotine inhalation, not just from smoking, but from vaping as well that could be an issue. If you quit smoking within 24 hours there could be a huge improvement.

In 2019, 43% of Italian smokers, smoked between 10-19 cigarettes per day. Two countries that are really getting hit with this virus are Italy and Spain. Both of these countries have a lot of smokers.

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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. Let's answer the question why smoking can increase the risk of the COVID-19
0:49.7	complications, not only the complications but the risk of getting an infection, and I'm talking primarily in your lungs.
0:57.0	So smoking is a significant risk factor. Why? Because of this.
1:02.0	Smoking increases ACE two receptors significantly. Now what is an
1:09.2	ace two receptor? In your cells you have a lot of different receptors and there's one for the
1:14.6	Ace 2 protein which is an enzyme. Now it just so happens that the way the
1:20.4	coronavirus gets into the cell is through this little portal.
1:26.1	So the COVID-19 has these little projection sticking out that basically connect to the ACE- two receptors and once it connects the doors
1:36.0	open it can go in there and create destruction. Smoking increases the number of these portals.
1:46.0	So the more portals or doors that this virus can enter,
1:52.0	the more susceptible you are to getting that infection.
1:55.2	And it just so happens that the lung tissue has the most concentration of these A's 2 receptors.
2:02.4	So once the virus is in your lungs it creates all sorts of
2:06.2	damage in your airways and then you start getting scar tissue and bleeding starts
2:11.8	going in there and you start to develop fluid in there and these little
2:15.4	membranes become thickened and you start losing your capacity to exchange oxygen and CO2.
2:22.0	So it's the chronic nicotine inhalation, not just for smoking, but for vaping as well.
2:28.4	Now one important thing that you need to know is that if you quit smoking within 24 hours there is a huge
2:35.3	improvement. Now the last thing I wanted to mention was in 2019
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