I've done a little skimming of comments here and I don't want to reply to any specific comment. But some general thoughts: Some conditions cause severe malabso

I've done a little skimming of comments here and I don't want to reply to any specific comment. But some general thoughts: Some conditions cause severe malabsorption and then doctors medically prescribe digestive enzymes. These enzymes can be effectively used to combat viral infections if you take them on an empty stomach between meals instead of with meals like they are supposed to be used. Random spontaneous thought: Maybe this is one of the things fasting does that has an impact on health. When you don't eat, digestive enzymes in the body attack microbes. (And the gut is home to 70 to 80 percent of the immune cells in the body. There's a lot happening there.) Also: one of the things that makes gut issues complicated is you need to keep the stomach sufficiently acid to do its job while trying to address chemical imbalances and other stuff. If your stomach gets to be too alkaline, you can outright start throwing up from inability to digest food at all. Keep in mind that viruses are made of RNA and DNA is just two strands of RNA bolted together, basically. (Those are laymen's terms, because I'm a layman. If anyone knows the fancier, more accurate explanation, feel free to have at it.) So there is research suggesting that viruses are actually a source of genetic material for humans. It helps me to think of all this like some messy, organic soup of code. Or nanomachines exchanging code. Something like that. DNA is the code that writes physical reality* and it's quite small and gets swapped out and we are only just beginning to understand all that. (Edit: not all physical reality. Just the biology bits.)