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Subject Another benefit of the Keto Diet, it fights the Flu

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Original Message Keto Diet Helps Fight the Flu in Mice, Study Shows
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"The research team fed the mice a keto diet — 90 percent of calories from fat and less than 1 percent from carbohydrates — for seven days. Then, the mice were infected with the influenza A virus. Scientists found that these mice didn’t lose weight, but had lower levels of the virus in their lungs and had greater survival rates compared to mice on a more traditional “chow” diet, where the majority of calories came from carbs.

The authors suggest that the diet helped the mice ward off infection by activating more T cells — a type of white blood cell that plays a key role in the body’s immune system — in the lungs. The cells strengthened the barrier to the respiratory tract, keeping the virus from entering the lungs."

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