2023-05-26 03:00:33
Good stuff by Niels-Christian Höllger, specialist in general medicine and teaches at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz
Who does not know it – the game Pac-Man from childhood. The game character Pac-Man must Eat dots in a maze. If Pac-Man eats a “power pill” he gets more points.
It’s the same with a corona infection: Pac-Man is our phagocyte, the dots are the viruses and the “power pills” form a system that marks the viruses for the phagocytes.
This system is called the complement system. It’s part of our “innate immune system” and consists of approx. 50 proteins. These are made in the liver.
Healthy liver crucial
This is one of the reasons why a healthy liver (healthy diet, exercise, monitoring of the Liver function when taking medications that can damage the liver) for a intact immune system is very important.
The 50 proteins “swim” in the blood as inactive precursors and are activated in a corona infection.
The main protein called C3b coats the virus, marked makes it look like a neon glowing highlighter and makes it so for the phagocytes “tasty”.
“Cooking recipe” for egg white
The latest studies indicate that the corona virus has a “recipe” in its genome for a protein that it can produce in our cells.
This protein (it’s called ORF S) binds almost perfectly to C3b. The result: the scavenger cell activator C3b can no longer dock onto the virus and our scavenger cells no longer recognize the virus.
Stay immune-healthy and also think about the liver so that it has enough “power pills” to activate your scavenger cells against the corona virus.
To at Stay Pac-Man: How to get to the next level and are against a future Corona infection better prepared.
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