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let’s talk about the seven sneaky viral strategies now these viruses are very

very devious and a virus is much smaller than a bacteria now are they alive

not really are they dead not really it’s one of those things where you have this

this little sack with this tiny little copy machine in here it’s like a

genetic copy machine that has the ability to copy itself over and over and

over but it could only do that if it invades your cells into the nucleus of

the cell and then leech onto it and suck the life out of your cell and then

replicate that way certain cells that don’t have the DNA they can’t really do

anything like your red blood cells for example so that’s what they do and they

start reproducing and create a lot of damage within your immune system because

your immune system sees this foreign invader now and it creates inflammation

and it starts to create collateral damage alright so number one viruses can

infect your own immune cells the B and T cells the monocytes and even your thymus

and viral specific t-cells the thymus is right above the heart and it’s a gland

that help it’s like the training camp for your white blood cells so it trains

your white blood cells to defend against pathogens so these little guys can

invade the thymus and other immune cells now what happens now is that virus kind

of becomes part of your cell and it’s viewed as your own cell by your own

immune system so that’s one sneaky way it goes underneath the radar and it

doesn’t get detected all right number four viruses have the ability to escape

antibody response so think about this a virus the shell of a virus has a little

protein on it and it’s like a little flag that your immune system can see and

tag and go after right well these little special proteins or little flags can be

hidden by the virus so our own immune system cannot find them and so you have

this delayed immune response until after the infection has set in very very

sneaky all right here’s another scenario number five you can have two viruses

invade one cell and then what they do is they work together to rearrange those

proteins on the outside of the cell so they can escaped attack from our own

immune system all right number six escaping what’s called cytokines which

are signaling molecules for the immune system they’re involved in inflammatory

responses and viruses can sometimes escape these little guys right here so

there’s no inflammation there’s nothing for your immune system to indicate that

it is a virus there all right number seven certain viruses can downgrade vitamin D

receptors what does that mean it means that it blocks your ability to

absorb vitamin D and vitamin D is intimately involved in controlling your

immune system so without vitamin D you’re going to be more susceptible to

viruses and you don’t have that protection anymore so viruses have one

strategy of suppressing the immune system by blocking vitamin D this is why

you see so many diseases involved with the associated low vitamin D condition

well that’s probably because there’s a virus involved in that disease and if

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