A new report began with this statement:
"Viruses dramatically increase cellular metabolism..."
However, has the author put the cart before the proverbial horse here? Is it the case that one gets "infected" with a virus, then metabolism increases, or is it that something like too much iron and PUFAs in the diet leads to viral activation when the body is stressed severely, in turn leading to the increased metabolism? Or is it just that certain diets lead to increased metabolism, and then exposure to an amount of virus that would otherwise not be a problem becomes a "viral disease?" Today's "virologists" don't seem all that interested in this kind of question (to see the kinds of questions that interest them, go to http://cvr.bio.uci.edu/docs.html, for example), so until they do, the simple experiments required to shed light on this probably won't be conducted. If anyone can cite such an experiment that has already been conducted, please cite it here.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080928145603.htm |
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