Would you please list the measures taken by your country to combat the threat of nCoV infection? Do you think there is something more to do?
We in Pakistan working to prevent public from Corona, screening of passengers, taking their detail, contacts and contacting them frequently to know about them, a helpline 1166 for corona related information, isolated wards for patients and public awareness programs under Health Promotion.
Awareness and guidance for preventing viruses definitely affect reducing infection
No matter if a person has been infected or not, as a personal preaution, reducing or curing the metabolic syndrome of the person can reduce the severity of the infection. Try to follow the Luigi Cornaro diet described in my book:
Book Restore gut homeostasis and healthy weight for an anorexia n...
This is a preventative measure. The restrictive eating in the Luigi Cornaro diet reduces metabolic syndrome and promotes recovery from the possible infection. Metabolic syndromes may complicate the SARS-CoV-2 viral infection, and make it more life-threatening.
In the Luigi Cornaro diet, by triggering autophagy (xenophagy) in each cell of our body, we will rely on the microbiome (including the virus if one is infected) in our body as nutrition source.
Microbes (mainly the gut microbiome) are important to us not because they are "good old friend"; but because they are potential pathogens to us. That's why we developed our immune system to cope with them during our co-evolution with them in the past millions of years, and we need them: 1) to enhance our immune system; 2) they are the only source of the essential nutrients for our body, because they have a much larger reservation of genes than human being. Without the microorganisms in our food or inside our body, malnutrition is inevitable, no matter how many foods we eat:
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In my diet, I use raw fermented rice everyday as a microbiome supplement. You may introduce microbiota in your food in a similar way.
When autophagy is running in each cell in our body every day, foreign genes (like the virus) and any dysfunctional cell components be cleaned, and be used as nutrition source to repair our damaged body cell. In this way, we can prevent the accumulation of foreign genes (like the virus) and any dysfunctional cell components from developing into illness.
Please note that this preventative measure does not serve as a medical advice. If you are already sick, please consult your doctors and follow their instructions.
Thanks to Sana Ullah Khan and Qusay Al-Dulamey for your valuable comments.
Thanks Ligen Yu for your valuable addition. But, I failed to understand how Luigi Cornaro diet helps to combat the novel corona virus (nCoV) threat. Would you please explain the event?
Dear Harasit Kumar Paul
Our bodies have two distinct metabolism mode: the healthy mode and the anorexia mode. The Luigi Cornaro diet is for the anorexia mode, which is our body's natural strategy for recovering itself from illness (infection, severe injury, or any other illness):
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/13761652_Infection-Induced_Anorexia_Active_Host_Defence_Strategy
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/304619411_Sickness-Associated_Anorexia_Mother_Nature's_Idea_of_Immunonutrition
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/299942566_Autophagy-A_free_meal_in_sickness-associated_anorexia
The restrictive eating in the Luigi Cornaro diet is able to cure the metabolic syndromes like high blood pressure and cardiovascular diseases. Metabolic syndromes may complicate the SARS-CoV-2 viral infection, and make it more life-threatening.
The Luigi Cornaro diet cannot prevent the virus infection, but it may help to reduce the symptoms of the infection, make it a very mild one.
Dear Ligen Yu, a week earlier you explained how Luigi cornaro diet helps in reducing symptoms of SARS-CoV-2 viral infection in patients who have metabolic syndrome. Would it come into any help who don't have metabolic syndrome?
Dear Harasit Kumar Paul ,
The Luigi cornaro diet a special diet for the patients with metabolic syndromes, and is not for healthy people. Healthy people are not able to follow the diet, as they don't have enough nutrition supply from the microbiome inside their body. Also healthy people is more safe than people with metabolic syndromes in facing SARS-CoV-2 viral infection, they only need to follow their body's natural reaction to the infection, and reduce food intake during the infection. But for people with metabolic syndromes, they need to follow the Luigi Cornaro diet before, during and after the viral infection to prevent the recurrence of the metabolic syndromes. Ultimately, metabolic syndromes are the side effect of our immune system's fighting to the infections:
Article Infectobesity: Obesity of Infectious Origin1
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Article Infectobesity: a New Area for Microbiological and Virological Research
Dear Ligen Yu, thanks for your great contribution. You have added an ample number of very good relevant publications. I appreciate your efforts to enrich the discussion.
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