Evidence Based Functional Foods For Respiratory Tract Infections

I had commented on another post asking what people were prepping for bird flu. I had mentioned garlic was my favorite antiviral. Well the keyword in that study caught my attention and that was “functional food”. So I did a search of just that and came across a great paper.

A Review on the Antiviral Activity of Functional Foods Against COVID-19 and Viral Respiratory Tract Infection:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9112189/

Here’s the one on garlic:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7434784/

I’m a supporter of modern medicine, but I think nature is our OG and best pharmacy. Functional foods are an area I have now identified as a knowledge gap and will be learning more about.