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RE: How Fasting can help us recover from bacterial, but not viral, infections

in #health8 years ago

That is surprising! I would think fasting would help much more in viral cases since you are depending on your own body to get the virus suppressed. Bacteria could continue to thrive and multiply if antibiotics are not taken... I think the reason they say don't fast with a virus is if the virus has dehydrated you... otherwise it doesn't make much sense.

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The dehydration may well play a role. However, the mechanism that they identify has to do with our metabolism f glucose. Suppressing the use of glucose, as in ketosis, reduces inflammation and the damage done by bacterial infections.