Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Healthy plant-based diets appear to help reduce the risks of severe COVID-19 and getting infected in the first place, even independent of comorbidities.
Soon after COVID-19 emerged as a global public health threat, we paused our planned videos here at NutritionFacts.org so I could produce a series of videos (nutritionfacts.org/covid-19/) on COVID-19 and write the book How to Survive a Pandemic (nutritionfacts.org/book/how-to-survive-a-pandemic/). These resources concentrated on how pandemics arise and how we can mitigate future risk. As such, they remain as relevant as ever. Now that we have several years of data on COVID-19, I can finally answer the question: What’s the role of nutrition in both preventing and beating COVID-19?
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Healthy plant-based diets appear to help reduce the risks of severe COVID-19 and getting infected in the first place, even independent of comorbidities.
Soon after COVID-19 emerged as a global public health threat, we paused our planned videos here at NutritionFacts.org so I could produce a series of videos (nutritionfacts.org/covid-19/) on COVID-19 and write the book How to Survive a Pandemic (nutritionfacts.org/book/how-to-survive-a-pandemic/). These resources concentrated on how pandemics arise and how we can mitigate future risk. As such, they remain as relevant as ever. Now that we have several years of data on COVID-19, I can finally answer the question: What’s the role of nutrition in both preventing and beating COVID-19?
New subscribers to our e-newsletter always receive a free gift. Get yours here: nutritionfacts.org/subscribe/.
Have a question about this video? Leave it in the comment section at nutritionfacts.org/video/friday-favorites-the-best-diet-for-covid-and-long-covid and someone on the NutritionFacts.org team will try to answer it.
Want to get a list of links to all the scientific sources used in this video? Click on Sources Cited at nutritionfacts.org/video/friday-favorites-the-best-diet-for-covid-and-long-covid. You’ll also find a transcript and acknowledgements for the video, my blog and speaking tour schedule, and an easy way to search (by translated language even) through our videos spanning more than 2,000 health topics.
Thanks for watching. I hope you’ll join in the evidence-based nutrition revolution!
-Michael Greger, MD FACLM
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