{"id":94796,"date":"2019-08-14T15:23:54","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T22:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/not-all-viruses-are-bad-for-you-here-are-some-that-can-have-a-protective-effect"},"modified":"2019-08-14T15:23:54","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T22:23:54","slug":"not-all-viruses-are-bad-for-you-here-are-some-that-can-have-a-protective-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/not-all-viruses-are-bad-for-you-here-are-some-that-can-have-a-protective-effect","title":{"rendered":"Not All Viruses Are Bad For You. Here Are Some That Can Have a Protective Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/not-all-viruses-are-bad-for-you-here-are-some-that-can-have-a-protective-effect2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Viruses are mostly known for their aggressive and infectious nature.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s true, most viruses have a pathogenic relationship with their hosts \u2013 meaning they cause diseases ranging from a mild cold to serious conditions like severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). They work by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC4788752\/\">invading the host cell<\/a>, taking over its cellular machinery and releasing new viral particles that go on to infect more cells and cause illness.<\/p>\n<p>But they\u2019re not all bad. Some viruses can actually kill bacteria, while others can fight against more dangerous viruses. So like protective bacteria (probiotics), we have several protective viruses in our body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viruses are mostly known for their aggressive and infectious nature. It\u2019s true, most viruses have a pathogenic relationship with their hosts \u2013 meaning they cause diseases ranging from a mild cold to serious conditions like severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). They work by invading the host cell, taking over its cellular machinery and releasing new [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94796","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}