These foods can weaken COVID
The chemical compounds of these foods and drinks can block the function of a SARS-COV-2 enzyme.
While the global deployment of Covid-19 covid vaccine slowly, millions of waiting for their turn to receive vaccination. Until then, there are still several things you can and should do every day to stay safe.
In addition to continuing to practice social distancing and the mask, also plan to adddark chocolate Wheregreen tea to your diet. Both had just found potentially protective properties against coronavirus. (In touch:Vitamin doctors exhort everyone to take right now.)
De-Yu Xie, professor of biology plant and microbial, and Yue Zhu, a doctorate. Student in the Xie Laboratory of the North Carolina State University, have shown that chemical compounds of certain foods and beverages can prevent a particular enzyme found in the new coronavirus to achieve its function.
According to their study published in the newspaperBoundaries, dark chocolate, green tea, andmuscadal grapes (A race that is from the south) containing all chemical compounds that can bind and effectively block the function of the SARS-COV-2 protease, the CVIV-19 virus. If the protease enzyme is inhibited, the virus can not reproduce. The inhibitors of the protease prevent the virus from forming mature particles.
"One of our axis laboratories is to find nutraceuticals in food or medicinal plants that inhibit either how a virus attaches to human cells or the spread of a virus in human cells," said Xiein a report.
What did the authors examine, exactly?
Researchers observed how the SARS-COV-2 main protease (MODRO) reacted once it has come into contact with different plant chemical compounds, especially those with bothanti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties.
Computer simulations have shown that specific chemical compounds of cocoa powder, dark chocolate, green tea and two varieties of muscadine grapes have been able to bind different parts of Mpro.
"Mpro has a part that looks like a" pocket "that was" filled "by chemical compounds," said Xie. "When this pocket was filled, the protease lost its important function."
Laboratory experiments gave similar results - chemical compounds in green tea and muscadine grapes have completely inhibited the function of MPro. The compounds found in dark chocolate and cocoa powder, on the other hand, a reduced activity of about half.
"Green tea has five chemical compounds tested that bind to different sites in the pocket on the MPRO, essentially the crushing to inhibit its function," said Xie. "Muscadine grapes contain these chemicals inhibitors in their skins and seeds. Plants use these compounds to protect themselves, so it is not surprising that plant leaves and skins contain these beneficial compounds."
This does not mean that these foods and drinks will protect you from COVID-19, but these conclusions can be a catalyst for larger discoveries to come.
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