There's a lot of evidence that folks with metabolic syndrome, like denimslayer's friend, have the hardest time with COVID. The bad news about that is that a huge percentage of our population has it - people of all ages. The good news about that is that it's largely caused by bad nutrition and eating habits, and that is an easy fix. Stop eating sugar - completely. Alcohol is sugar. Stop eating lots of high carb foods. Eat food that comes from a farm, not food that came from a factory. Eat meat of all kinds - beef, venison, chicken, pork, fish. Eat eggs. Eat vegetables that grow above the ground, and don't eat things like potatoes that grow under ground (high carbs). Eat low carb/sugar fruits - mostly berries. Blackberries and rasberries are lowest carb. Strawberries and blueberries in moderation. Apples and other fruits are high sugar/high carb, so none of those. Eat tree nuts. Macadamias, walnuts, almonds.... Eat an avocado every day. Put olive oil on everything - I never knew how good olive oil is. It's like butter. Great on everything.
Keto diet is great, but any other whole food low carb nutrition plan is too. It will take some time for your body to reverse metabolic syndrome, but not as much time as you think. Every week you make a little progress makes you healthier and probably reduces your risk of a bad time with COVID. It reduces your risk of heart disease, cancer, diabetes and lots of other things that kill more people than COVID too.
Tons of info and research online about all of that. Do some Googling and reading and YouTubing. It takes some effort for the learning, and it takes some effort for a little while to build different eating habits. But it's not that hard.
Intermittent fasting and/or time-restricted eating helps a lot too. I've been doing time-restricted eating for several months combined with keto pretty strictly for the first 2 or 3 months, and now not really paying attention to macros but still low carb and just eating whatever I want for lunch and supper - as long as it's low carb. Maybe not quite as high fat as strict keto now, but still really low carb. I've lost 30 pounds since Christmas. Didn't think I even had that much to lose. I weigh what I weighed in college now (I'll be 54 next Monday). Went from snug 36" waist pants to 34" pants that are now too loose. Need to buy 32s. All the new clothes are getting expensive. Haven't changed my workout program at all - still doing mostly strength training with a little HIIT conditioning here and there. I say all of that not to brag or anything. Not at all. Just saying that changing nothing in my lifestyle other than how I ate has lead to pretty fast and dramatic changes in my physical condition and health. All the people who said it worked were right. It'll probably work for you too.
My daughter had COVID in March. My wife and I had spent the weekend at her house just 3-4 days before she figured out she was sick. My wife and I stayed home for the rest of the 14 days. A couple days later, my wife had fever up to 100 for a couple days and felt like she had a cold or allergies. I had a twing like a sore throat was about to get going off and on for a couple days, allergy-like symptoms, and just kinda felt a little bad for a couple days, but no fever. There was a lot of pollen at that time too though, so maybe we both just had allergies and sinus infection? Neither of us has ever been tested. Maybe we had the 'rona? Maybe we didn't, and I'll be the next guy to catch it? Regardless, I feel like I'm as ready as anyone to get it and get over it. I have some HCQ in the cabinet if I need it. Doc prescribed it for my daughter, as it had just come out that it helped a day or two before that, and it hadn't been taken away by the powers that be yet. He wrote a Rx for my wife and I as well, figuring we might need it too. Haven't yet. Taking zinc, calcium, magnesium and D3 daily. Living life as always. Praying for our nation to get over this virus and all the associated madness soon. 2020 sucks. Looking forward to see how God turns the page.
Keto diet is great, but any other whole food low carb nutrition plan is too. It will take some time for your body to reverse metabolic syndrome, but not as much time as you think. Every week you make a little progress makes you healthier and probably reduces your risk of a bad time with COVID. It reduces your risk of heart disease, cancer, diabetes and lots of other things that kill more people than COVID too.
Tons of info and research online about all of that. Do some Googling and reading and YouTubing. It takes some effort for the learning, and it takes some effort for a little while to build different eating habits. But it's not that hard.
Intermittent fasting and/or time-restricted eating helps a lot too. I've been doing time-restricted eating for several months combined with keto pretty strictly for the first 2 or 3 months, and now not really paying attention to macros but still low carb and just eating whatever I want for lunch and supper - as long as it's low carb. Maybe not quite as high fat as strict keto now, but still really low carb. I've lost 30 pounds since Christmas. Didn't think I even had that much to lose. I weigh what I weighed in college now (I'll be 54 next Monday). Went from snug 36" waist pants to 34" pants that are now too loose. Need to buy 32s. All the new clothes are getting expensive. Haven't changed my workout program at all - still doing mostly strength training with a little HIIT conditioning here and there. I say all of that not to brag or anything. Not at all. Just saying that changing nothing in my lifestyle other than how I ate has lead to pretty fast and dramatic changes in my physical condition and health. All the people who said it worked were right. It'll probably work for you too.
My daughter had COVID in March. My wife and I had spent the weekend at her house just 3-4 days before she figured out she was sick. My wife and I stayed home for the rest of the 14 days. A couple days later, my wife had fever up to 100 for a couple days and felt like she had a cold or allergies. I had a twing like a sore throat was about to get going off and on for a couple days, allergy-like symptoms, and just kinda felt a little bad for a couple days, but no fever. There was a lot of pollen at that time too though, so maybe we both just had allergies and sinus infection? Neither of us has ever been tested. Maybe we had the 'rona? Maybe we didn't, and I'll be the next guy to catch it? Regardless, I feel like I'm as ready as anyone to get it and get over it. I have some HCQ in the cabinet if I need it. Doc prescribed it for my daughter, as it had just come out that it helped a day or two before that, and it hadn't been taken away by the powers that be yet. He wrote a Rx for my wife and I as well, figuring we might need it too. Haven't yet. Taking zinc, calcium, magnesium and D3 daily. Living life as always. Praying for our nation to get over this virus and all the associated madness soon. 2020 sucks. Looking forward to see how God turns the page.
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