Nutrition Facts with Dr. Greger
The Best Diet for COVID and Long COVID
Jan 11, 2024
This podcast explores the impact of diet on COVID-19, highlighting how a plant-based diet can reduce the risk of infection and severe symptoms. It also discusses the connection between animal protein demand and emerging diseases, the importance of plant-based foods for public health and the environment, and the dangers of consuming certain meats and the risk of deadly infections.
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- Plant-based diets can help strengthen lung defenses against infection and reduce the risk of severe COVID-19 symptoms and infection.
- Reducing meat consumption and changing the way humans treat animals can decrease pandemic risk and have profound effects on human and planetary health.
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Plant-based diets and COVID-19
Plant-based diets have been shown to decrease the risk of respiratory infections and may have direct effects on the course of COVID-19. Vegetable nitrates, polyphenols, and the beneficial effects on the microbiome found in plant-based diets can help strengthen lung defenses against infection and have anti-inflammatory properties. Studies have shown that those consuming more pro-inflammatory diets have a higher risk of severe COVID-19. Plant-based diets are beneficial in reducing the risk of severe COVID-19 symptoms and infection, independent of other health-related factors.
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