{"id":2906,"date":"2019-11-20T06:49:21","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T06:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mymedicplus.com\/news\/?p=2906"},"modified":"2021-03-31T00:16:04","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T18:46:04","slug":"keto-diet-helps-combat-the-flu-virus-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedicplus.com\/blog\/keto-diet-helps-combat-the-flu-virus-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Keto diet helps combat the flu virus better"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Source: asianage.com<\/p>\n<div class=\"single-view-banner\">\n<div class=\"sDetailCapt\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Washington:<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">\u00a0Here&#8217;s some good news for people following ketogenic regimen diet. A high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet also known as the keto diet is helpful in combating flu virus, suggests a study.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"storyBody\" class=\"storyBody\">\n<p>Mice that were fed a ketogenic diet were better able to combat the flu virus than mice fed food high in carbohydrates, according to a new Yale University study. The results of the study were published in the journal Science Immunology.<\/p>\n<p>The ketogenic diet &#8212; which for people includes meat, fish, poultry, and non-starchy vegetables &#8212; activates a subset of T cells in the lungs not previously associated with the immune system&#8217;s response to influenza, enhancing mucus production from airway cells that can effectively trap the virus, the researchers report.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This was a totally unexpected finding,&#8221; said co-senior author Akiko Iwasaki, the Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Immunobiology and Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, and an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.<\/p>\n<p>The research project was the brainchild of two trainees &#8212; one working in Iwasaki&#8217;s lab and the other with co-senior author Visha Deep Dixit, the Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Comparative Medicine and of Immunobiology. Ryan Molony worked in Iwasaki&#8217;s lab, which had found that immune system activators called inflammasomes can cause harmful immune system responses in their host.<\/p>\n<p>Emily Goldberg worked in Dixit&#8217;s lab, which had shown that the ketogenic diet blocked the formation of inflammasomes.<\/p>\n<p>The two wondered if diet could affect immune system response to pathogens such as the flu virus.<\/p>\n<p>They showed that mice fed a ketogenic diet and infected with the influenza virus had a higher survival rate than mice on a high-carb normal diet. Specifically, the researchers found that the ketogenic diet triggered the release of gamma delta T cells, immune system cells that produce mucus in the cell linings of the lung &#8212; while the high-carbohydrate diet did not.<\/p>\n<p>When mice were bred without the gene that codes for gamma delta T cells, the ketogenic diet provided no protection against the influenza virus.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This study shows that the way the body burns fat to produce ketone bodies from the food we eat can fuel the immune system to fight flu infection,&#8221; Dixit said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[2425,142,139,835,143],"class_list":["post-2906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weight-loss-gain","tag-flu-virus","tag-high-fat","tag-keto-diet","tag-ketogenic-diet","tag-low-carbohydrate"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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