Do dietary habits play a role in COVID?

In a study that included almost 3,000 frontline health care workers exposed to COVID every day, it was found that those who chose a plant-based diet were 73% less likely to get moderate to severe COVID.

In a video interview, John Whyte, MD and Dean Ornish, MD discuss how the food we eat may have an impact on our immunity if we get COVID, or may even protect us from getting it at all. Watch to learn about the role of food and immunity in regards to COVID. You can find the transcript and video here.

From Dean Ornish: “A plant-based diet is the way that most people ate worldwide until they had the prosperity to be able to eat animal protein as often as we do, and processed foods, and concentrated sweeteners, and so on. So it's mainly fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes, soy products, as close as possible to how they come in nature.

And I think there's a growing consensus that this is really the optimal way for most people to eat. Not only is it low in the disease-causing substances, but there are literally hundreds of thousands of protective substances in fruits and vegetables that-- phytochemicals, bioflavonoids, carotenoids, retinols, isoflavones, genistein, lycopene, on and on and on that have anti-cancer, anti-heart disease, and anti-aging properties.”