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hey I’m back and today we’re going to talk about suppressing the infection

cycle is it a good idea or a bad idea let’s say for example you’re healthy

you’re relatively young and don’t have pre-existing health problems and you

start having a fever muscle ache flu-like symptoms a runny nose a cough

should you automatically start taking ibuprofen antibiotics some type of

medication to suppress these symptoms or not well let’s take a look at what’s

really happening internally specifically with viruses the virus first invades the

body and its goal is to get inside the cell so it starts to attach to your cell

and then it actually gets into the cell and then it opens up it takes the outer

part of it and just opens up and releases its RNA or DNA into your

cellular machinery and then once it hijacks gets into your cellular

machinery it starts to take over the copy machine so it can mass-produce now

when it does that your own body doesn’t have access to that copy machine so as

the viral is using machinery it doesn’t allow your own body to use that

machinery so then what happens is as the blueprints are copied they’re sent to

other machinery of your cell to reproduce the actual cell itself so

these are the tiny machines that make proteins then when the virus is

replicated it can then be released through the cell and that’s called

shedding so in this process if the virus is outside the cell it can’t really do

anything to you once this virus gets in the cell it’s hard for your immune

system to identify it but ourselves have adapted to countering this measure so

there’s certain proteins in there that can detect the virus and those little

proteins will go to the surface of the cell and signal other parts of your

immune system that hey there’s a virus inside the cell and it does it signaling

through certain cytokines so it’s not a kind is really a communication that is

sent out to the immune system and there are different cytokines for different

things so you have cytokines that are also pro-inflammatory

they make inflammation and others that are anti-inflammatory as well so what

the cytokine is going to do it’s going to send a signal out to various parts of

your immune system and what’s going to be generated from that is a very

powerful antiviral cytokine or weapon it’s called interferon so interferon is

the chemical that triggers certain symptoms of a virus infection

cough fever muscle ache flu-like symptoms so what you have to realize is

that when you have these symptoms it’s not always the best thing to try to

suppress these because you’re also going to suppress this interferon and

interferon comes from this word interfere because its function is that

it interferes with the virus reproducing so it’s very very important to allow

interferon to do its job to decrease the reproduction of viruses if you’re

healthy and you don’t have a lot of pre-existing health problems and you’re

not very old the best thing to do is to support the immune system not to

suppress it because they found that it’s going to increase the duration of the

infection you’re gonna be stuck with the infection a lot longer if you try to

suppress this mechanism also there’s even studies that show that taking

something to suppress the immune system increases your mortality rate ideally

the best thing to do is let your body fight the infection and support the

immune system by getting on an eating plan that lowers your carbohydrates that

enhances vitamin D zinc and vitamin C these are crucial keeping your stress

down because stress will also prolong this infection and as far as the fever

goes you want to stay hot take a hot shower wear extra clothes when you’re

going to bed to speed up the process because the fever is generated as an

antiviral action to suppress the reproduction of viruses anyway I wanted

to bring this up because a lot of people have these symptoms and they

automatically try to get rid of them they don’t really understand what’s

happening if you want more information about how to boost the immune system

check out this video