This research investigated if intermittent prolonged fasting practiced during the month of Ramadan could positively affect the inflammatory state. 2/https://t.co/l21uGUIpX4
— Dr Waheed Khan (@BeingWaheed88) April 26, 2020
Another study, conducted 1 week before Ramadan fasting, at the end of the third week of Ramadan, and 1 month after the cessation of Ramadan month.
4/https://t.co/i9aXrGudzC— Dr Waheed Khan (@BeingWaheed88) April 26, 2020
The results indicate that fasting attenuates inflammatory status of the body by suppressing proinflammatory cytokine expression and decreasing body fat and circulating levels of leukocytes.
6/— Dr Waheed Khan (@BeingWaheed88) April 26, 2020
Food for thought.
Could diurnal fasting reduce or prevent some of the most extreme effects of SARS-CoV-2 ? UK infection data will be available.
An area of interest would be to examine whether COVID-19 is a "Disease of Kings" like Gout a few centuries ago.
8/— Dr Waheed Khan (@BeingWaheed88) April 26, 2020
At risk patients could be identified by detection and serial monitoring of this subset of inflammatory monocytes using flow cytometry.https://t.co/C3rwMBVhzE #Covid_19
— Dr Waheed Khan (@BeingWaheed88) April 26, 2020
