in this video I want to talk about what I would eat if I was diagnosed with
COVID-19 coronavirus well the first thing to know about that is that the
pre-existing conditions greatly increase your risk of not just in the
susceptibility to getting the virus but in the complications and even the death
rate now I'm talking about diabetes heart disease high blood pressure
insulin resistance and obesity these are the big ones there's other ones too but
all of these have a common denominator high insulin and I'm talking about
diabetes type 2 right here and there's a very simple way to deal with this what
you do is you go on a low carb diet okay and we're talking the ketogenic
diet moderate protein high fat high fats in the diet are totally fine to do as
long as you keep your carbohydrates low and of course I always recommend
the healthy version of the ketogenic diet I put a link down below if you want
to know what that is and how to do it getting on the diet will greatly help
support healthy insulin levels now the other things I would do I would start to
consume food high in zinc and I just want to say that anything I say in this
video is not meant to diagnose or replace your medical care or provide a
treatment for the coronavirus check with your doctor before taking any of this
advice there's a huge association between having enough sync in your body
and having your immune system work properly almost at every single level of
your immune defenses zinc is involved and if you wanted to know what foods are
highest in zinc oysters are the number one food other shellfish would be
another option red meat cheese there's other foods but these have probably the
most zinc zinc is very very important in supporting a healthy thymus gland and
the thymus is a training camp for certain immune cells so it's very very
important and if you're deficient in zinc your thymus actually shrinks the
next thing I would do is make sure I have enough vitamin D you can get that
in cod liver oil salmon fatty fish but it's very very
difficult to consume foods and get the amount of vitamin D that you need so I
would highly recommend getting enough Sun 20 minutes every single day would
give you enough vitamin D because vitamin D is what's called an immune
modulator so it keeps the immune system from overreacting where you have so much
inflammation and collateral damage it could damage your lungs and other
tissues so vitamin D is very very important in keeping the immune system
at a balanced level certain viruses have a strategy of blocking the receptor for
vitamin D taking enough vitamin D can actually override that so you can keep
that immune support at a high level and then you have vitamin C very important
in supporting a healthy immune system especially dealing with viruses leafy
greens will give you a lot of vitamin C sauerkraut
if you actually make your own sauerkraut or get a high quality sauerkraut from
either a farmers market or the health of store you could get a tremendous amount
of vitamin C sometimes 700 milligrams and really all you need is between 70
and 90 milligrams as the RDA so now of course that doesn't account for all
types of sauerkraut because there's different versions but I'm just talking
at the high end we're starting at 700 and it's probably gonna go down from
there berries are a good source of vitamin C
as well there's a lot of other foods that have vitamin C but the more you
cook foods or you can foods you lose not just vitamin C in vitamin D but zinc to
canned foods will deplete the effectiveness of zinc by 85% and by the
way if you think that you're gonna consume like orange juice for your
vitamin C you're mistaken because they pasteurize or use high temperatures in
cook the orange juice that destroys the vitamin C the vitamin C that you would
have in that orange juice is usually coming from an added synthetic version
vitamin C called ascorbic acid and it's my opinion that is definitely not the
same as the vitamin C that comes from actual fruits and vegetables and lastly
let's talk about this thing called stress I know it might be hard to
believe but some people are actually stressed out nowadays now stress
increases cortisol cortisol chronically elevated as in long-term stress can
severely affect your immune system it causes your lymphatic system to shrink
it makes your lymph nodes decrease it decreases the antibody production so you
lose your ability to fight infection it also greatly increases your
susceptibility to getting viruses and bacteria
I would actively and aggressively do what I can to keep stress at a minimum
and that would definitely include not watching the news so much because there
are so many messages that are all about doom and gloom bad news over and over
and over fear fear fear guess what that does to the immune system it really
makes the person way more susceptible to getting the infection as compared to not
being in that state of worry and anxiety if you actually trace it back to right
before they got that infection I would say nearly 100% of the time they had a
stress event stress is a huge trigger to not only being susceptible to viruses
but activating viruses that are already inside your body
this explains why people when they get stressed they have shingles they get
herpes they get all sorts of other health problems we have getting on the
right diet to minimize these conditions right here eating foods high in the
three most important nutrients and lowering stress and lastly if you
haven't seen my videos on the nutrients or these conditions here I put the
videos up right here check them out