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Quebec researchers have identified a “kind” of vitamin that would prevent infection altogether.

Professor Nabil Seidah, laboratory director at the Montreal Clinical Research Institute, told Le Devoir newspaper that he “found quite unexpectedly” that swallowing a gram of L-carnitine every day “reduces the risk that the virus will infect”.

According to his team’s recently published study, when this molecule of L-carnitine (an animal by-product) enters human cells, it “significantly decreases the number of ACE2 receptors” on the surface of said cells. ACE2 receptors act as an entry point for the virus into our cells.

L-carnitine “enters the cell and asks the cell to synthesize less of this receptor”, explains Nabil Seidah. “[The molecule] decreases the number of surface receptors and decreases the risk of the virus infecting you. »

The logic of this study implies that this preventive remedy could apply to other coronaviruses, because “most coronaviruses have an ACE2, but this is not always the case”.

L-carnitine “is sold everywhere, in the aisle of organic products,” says Mr. Seidah.

This text is taken from the Le Devoir newsletter “Coronavirus mail” of March 28, 2022. To subscribe, click here.