Balanced diet will not directly protect a person from contracting infections, but it strengthens the immune system and enables a person’s body to be better prepared for fending off infection. Image: silviarita/pixabay
Balanced diet will not directly protect a person from contracting infections, but it strengthens the immune system and enables a person's body to be better prepared for fending off infection. Image: silviarita/pixabay An interview with Prof. Hans Hauner about COVID-19 and nutritional medicine - The current Corona outbreak affects nearly all aspects of medicine and of everyday life in general. In this context, questions about the importance of nutrition arise frequently; these include questions about how the right diet could protect you from contracting a COVID infection or about the influence nutrition could have on the progression of the disease. Hans Hauner, Professor for Nutritional Medicine at the Else Kröner-FreseniusCenter for Nutritional Medicine at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), provides some insight in this interview. To put it in simplified terms: Malnutrition and undernourishment resulting from a low calorie intake reduces immune system activity. Our body's ability to fight inflammation is impeded accordingly. A high-calorie diet with a high proportion of meat-based foods - as is typical for the German population - modestly promotes a risk ofproinflammatory state, while a mainly plant-based diet does possess certain anti-inflammatory properties.
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