By Dr Puneet Chandna
To Put It Simply, What Is a virus?
For the simple reason that the presence of a nucleus in a single cell is required for us to consider an organism to be alive, viruses are not considered to be living things. A virus cannot replicate outside of a living cell because it lacks the components necessary to do so: a cell membrane, a metabolic process, and the ability to breathe.
A virus is a creepy half-life of DNA, RNA, or both types of molecules that is on the lookout for a cell to invade. After invading a cell, viruses use their DNA or RNA to rewrite the cell’s instructions before multiplying rapidly and bursting out of it to find more hosts. As opposed to DNA viruses, RNA viruses are more likely to undergo mutations. (Among the many RNA viruses are SARS, bird flu, West Nile virus, swine flu, hepatitis, measles, polio, yellow fever, and Ebola.)
If two viruses (from birds and humans, for example) invade the same cell, their DNA will combine to create a new virus. The same holds true if a virus from two different animals combines and spreads to humans. There are two stages in a virus’s life cycle: the lytic cycle and the lysogenic cycle.
What Is the Lytic Cycle?
The virus’s reproductive efforts are prioritised during the lytic cycle. A virus enters a host cell, inserts its DNA, and replicates thousands of copies of itself before bursting through the cell membrane and killing the host cell.
Circadian Rhythm of Lysosomes
The lysogenic cycle is one in which the virus is latent within the host cell. There is a chance that the virus will lie dormant for a long period of time. Common examples include herpes and chicken pox. (The reactivation of a latent chicken pox virus can result in shingles years later.)
How Does the Human Body Fight Off a Virus?
Our immune systems constantly defend us from viruses and other foreign invaders. The skin, mucous membranes, and stomach acid are the body’s first line of defence. The innate immune system is activated if the virus breaches the host’s first line of defence. Fighting to defend themselves, phagocytes secrete interferon. If the phagocytes are unable to eliminate the invaders, they activate the lymphocytes for assistance.
Our body’s lymphocytes, including T cells and B cells, remember previous infections that were severe enough to activate them. As a result, your immune system is primed to combat any pathogen it recognises thanks to the antibodies you produced.
That is the way vaccines prevent disease. The immune system has previously fought off a similar infection). However, viruses can mutate, and sometimes to the point where the body no longer recognises them as an infection it has previously fought. Because of their speed, they may be lethal even before the lymphocytes are activated.
You require to keep your immune system optimum to fight of these viruses. If your digestive system is unhealthy, your immune system will suffer. A healthy gut contains a wide variety of beneficial bacteria, while a sick gut is overrun with fungi and other pathogens.
The first line of defence is a body that is as free of toxins as possible, achieved through a combination of a healthy, nutrient-dense diet, a healthy lifestyle, and regular detoxification.
Do not give sugar to the virus or Candida if you get sick. While you should keep your fluid intake high, sugary drinks should be avoided for the time being.
Keep in mind that a fever is a natural defence mechanism the body uses to combat infection.
Vitamins, Herbs, and Other Natural Anti-Viral Measures should be adopted.
The immune system uses interferon to defend healthy cells from viral invasion, and vitamin C is required for this process.
See your doctor and do not self-treat.
