{"id":105707,"date":"2020-04-18T22:42:21","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T05:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/covid-19-natural-antivirals-and-immune-boosters"},"modified":"2020-04-18T22:42:21","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T05:42:21","slug":"covid-19-natural-antivirals-and-immune-boosters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/covid-19-natural-antivirals-and-immune-boosters","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 \u2014 Natural Antivirals and Immune Boosters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Natural antiviral and immune boosters (elderberry, curcumin, echinacea, quercetin etc), a new practical guide by Forever Healthy Foundation: \u201c\u2026 We identified 50 natural substances and mixtures recommended for preventing infection with SARS-CoV-2 or lessening the severity of symptoms of COVID-19. As there hasn\u2019t been enough time for the scientific community to conduct clinical trials on the effects of any of the compounds on SARS-CoV-2, we chose to recommend substances with established safety that have shown strong antiviral\/immunomodulatory effects in previously conducted clinical trials or clinical practice.<\/p>\n<p>This resulted in a final recommendation for 8 natural compounds, 4 that have shown activity against other coronaviruses and that have strong immunomodulatory effects (see Recommended Based on Scientific Literature) along with 4 further compounds that have traditionally been used for prevention\/treatment of viral infections with a long record of efficacy and safety (see Recommended Based on Clinical Practice).<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, we found there is some supporting evidence for 23 more substances, discussed in the Potentially Useful section\u2026\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/brain.forever-healthy.org\/plugins\/servlet\/mobile?contentId=18612374#content\/view\/101057620\">https:\/\/brain.forever-healthy.org\/plugins\/servlet\/mobile?con\u2026\/101057620<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>This Practical Guide is part of Forever Healthy\u2019s \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forever-healthy.org\/maximizing-health.html\" class=\"\">Maximizing Health<\/a>\u201d initiative that s eeks to holistically review the world\u2019s leading medical knowledge on various health-related topics and turn it into actionable information.<\/p>\n<p>Special thanks are extended to the whole team at Forever Healthy and all of our collaborators for their friendly contributions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Natural antiviral and immune boosters (elderberry, curcumin, echinacea, quercetin etc), a new practical guide by Forever Healthy Foundation: \u201c\u2026 We identified 50 natural substances and mixtures recommended for preventing infection with SARS-CoV-2 or lessening the severity of symptoms of COVID-19. As there hasn\u2019t been enough time for the scientific community to conduct clinical trials on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}