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A Powerful Way to Combat COVID

Dr. Kwadwo Kyeremanteng, ICU and Palliative Care physician in Ottawa, Canada. "The global pandemic must be the motivation people need to make a change. Now is the time — no more excuses. It is not common knowledge how quickly we can reverse disease with lifestyle modifications, even among most endocrinologists, internists and family physicians. Diet counselling and nutrition are traditionally left out of the medical school curriculum; therefore, the power of a low-carbohydrate, ketogenic or fasting diet to reverse disease is not promoted to improve patient health. My sample size is not large, but I have yet to take care of a COVID-19 patient without metabolic risk factors. Along with public health measures like social distancing and wearing a mask, a new focus on improving metabolic health could be extremely powerful in countering COVID-19."

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