This article is a reminder that, in addition to the classic hygienic anti-epidemic measures, communicable (infectious) and non-communicable (chronic) diseases can possibly be prevented by purposefully focusing on nutritional programs.
In ancient times, nor antibiotics, the only way to prevent and treat diseases was to adjust the patient’s diet.
Many times over the years, nutritional health promotion has proven itself to be effective even though, as typical of the history of medicine, it has sometimes been forgotten. Even Hippocrates (460-337 BC) was aware of the importance of nutrition for health as he stated: “If you know nothing about a person’s diet, how can you understand his illness?”
The authors have tried to point out the importance of nutrition, which always contains antigens that directly induce immunological memory, in both specific (adaptive) immunity and as recently demonstrated, non-specific immunity, within our largest organ of immunity, the Intestinal Lymphoid Tissue (GALT).
In essence, in addition to its nutritional value, food intake could also be considered as an ongoing form of “vaccination”.
Open Access Review Article
Journal of Clinical Immunology
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Bencko V | Volume 3; Issue 1 (2022) | JCIM-3(1)-046 | Review Article
Citation: Bencko V, et al. Nutrition, a Primary Prevention of Communicable Disease? J Clin Immunol
Microbiol. 2022;3(1):1-10.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.46889/JCIM.2022.3106
Nutrition, a Primary Prevention of Communicable Disease?
Vladimír Bencko1*, Petr Šíma2, Iris Nadjo1
1Charles University, First Faculty of Medicine, Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology and General
University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic
2Laboratory of Immunotherapy, Institute of Microbiology, Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
*Corresponding Author: Prof. Vladimir Bencko, Charles University, First Faculty of Medicine, Department of
Hygiene and Epidemiology and General University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic;
Email: vladimir.bencko@lf1.cuni.cz
Received Date: 09-04-2022; Accepted Date: 22-04-2022; Published Date: 30-04-2022
Copyright© 2022 by Bencko V, et al. All rights reserved. This is an open access article distributed under the terms
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Abstract
This article is a reminder that, in addition to the classic hygienic anti-epidemic measures,
communicable (infectious) and non-communicable (chronic) diseases can possibly be
prevented by purposefully focusing on nutritional programs.
In ancient times, nor antibiotics, the only way to prevent and treat diseases was to adjust the
patient’s diet.
Many times over the years, nutritional health promotion has proven itself to be effective even
though, as typical of the history of medicine, it has sometimes been forgotten. Even
Hippocrates (460-337 BC) was aware of the importance of nutrition for health as he stated