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Fasting once morest cardiac complications following Covid
Practiced over the long term, fasting would reduce cardiac complications linked to Covid-19.
Intermittent fasting, especially when practiced over several decades, generally has positive effects on metabolic and cardiovascular health. A new study by researchers at Intermountain Health public hospital in Salt Lake City, US, finds that the practice may also protect once morest certain heart complications in patients who have had Covid-19.
Protect from the development of later heart failure
After analyzing data from 464 patients who had Covid-19, 135 of whom fasted regularly[1]the researchers found that those who practiced regular fasting had a lower rate of hospitalization, complications and death related to heart failure to that of Covid-19 positive study patients who were not fasting. These results seem to indicate thatfairly moderate but long-term intermittent fasting can help prevent heart failureeven in patients who already have both Covid-19 and heart problems.
As one of the researchers, epidemiologist Benjamin Horne, explains: Fasting won’t necessarily prevent a cardiac event from happening, but it can prevent someone from developing heart failure as a result. [à une infection au Covid-19]. »
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Fasting Reduces Inflammation
If the exact reasons explaining the link between regular fasting and a reduction in heart attacks following Covid-19 still remain mysterious, we know that fasting reduces inflammation, and that following 12 to 14 hours of fasting, the body begins to preferential use, in the blood, ketones rather than glucosewhich can improve heart function.
Another potential benefit is that intermittent fasting favors autophagy, i.e. the body recycling system which helps your body destroy and recycle damaged and infected cells.
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Bibliographic references 
(1) Most of these “fasting” patients observed were fasting for religious reasons regarding one full day per month (usually the first Sunday of the month, going without food or drink for two consecutive meals. Most of them generally fasted for many years and therefore have a regular practice that is long-term.
“Long-term intermittent fasting reduces COVID-19 heart failure complications and death in patients with previous heart disease“, American College of Cardiology’s 72nd Annual Scientific Session Together With World Heart Federation’s World Congress of Cardiology. Eurekalert.org.
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