Nutritional lessons from the coronavirus pandemic

You’ve heard the headlines: Upon contracting COVID-19, people with various co-morbidities are at increased risk for becoming critically ill, such as developing acute respiratory distress syndrome necessitating mechanical ventilation. They are several-fold more likely to die of the disease, also. Among the most common health conditions that put people at high risk for becoming severely ill include: Obesity Type 2 diabetes Hypertension Coronary disease and heart failure Cerebrovascular disease There are other conditions that also confer increased risk such as smoking, lung disease, and lung cancer. But the four conditions listed above are exceptionally widespread, including well over 150 million Americans. They also all share common threads: they all involve being insulin resistant and having higher levels of inflammation. In people with coronary disease, for example, it is uncommon to not have substantial insulin resistance. Type 2 diabetes is, of course, defined as severe insulin resistance. Obese people are invariably insulin resistant, as are those with hypertension. Insulin resistance and inflammation are virtually inseparable. They are indeed two distinct and separate processes, but insulin resistance increases inflammation and inflammation increases insulin resistance: they each amplify the other. Both processes are also known to impair the immune response that increases susceptibility to viral infections. Insulin resistance and inflammation, though largely asymp...
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