Alternative & Complementary Healthcare
I keep seeing reports that Long Covid sufferers are having cognitive issues like brain fog and neurological/brain/nervous system issues like anxiety, depression and PTSD. Here's one for a start: More Evidence COVID 'Brain Fog' IsBiologically Based (which basically says it is neuroinflammation in many cases) Treating Long Covid Trauma & PTSD The PTSD is totally …
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With many thanks to our friend Michelle at Foodsmatter for providing us with an excellent and very useful summary of the recent Long Covid Conference run by Biolab. Some excellent up to date information detailing several expert views on what's going on and potential strategies for treatment. I am happy to say that I have …
I've been thinking this for a while. Given what we know about viruses and how they mutate and perform, I have long been hoping that a much more infectious, milder variant would come along and push the more serious variants out. I wonder if that is what is happening with Omicron? And it seems I …
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Just to let you know, Christine and I have researched the latest med approved for Covid patients, Sotrovimab, and I've added it to the free Covid factsheet for you. Here's what's been added, and you can download the whole 50 page factsheet here. Sotrovimab This has been approved for mild to moderate Covid patients at …
What is remarkable about vitamin C is that it is an antioxidant, an anti-viral, and also anti-inflammatory. It's an impressive three-in-one defender. Not one adverse event has been reported in any published vitamin C clinical trials in COVID-19 patients.the review of 12 clinical trials shows is that "intravenous vitamin C may improve oxygenation parameters, reduce …
There seems to be more and more evidence stacking up that we should take enough Vitamin C at the start of any symptoms and that Vitamin C early on in acute cases can help enormously. The Frontline COVID-19 Critical Care Expert Group (FLCCC), a group of emergency medicine experts, have reported that, with the combined …
With the regulations changing and more mask-less people out and about, transmitting and catching Covid - and possibly having to deal with Long Covid for months - is more likely. Therefore, it strikes me that the effectiveness of our masks is going to become even more important! I note that Scotland has recommended the continued …
As you know, I am keeping my eye out for anything we can learn about helping the inevitable wave of Long Covid and post-viral patients we are going to see. I've written about Long Covid and given a suggested protocol to follow in my Covid Factsheet here, and see my video on it here (I …
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Looking at countries like Japan and South Korea where they have very low levels of Covid-19 deaths as well as very low levels of adult obesity, you will see they have prioritised public health across a range of lifestyle orientated measures, including population weight, and it has paid off in the pandemic today and in …
I think I said right at the start of this in my Covid factsheet that I would be tempted to make sure there was no blood brain barrier (BBB) breach or neuroinflammation (NI) ongoing after Covid infections. I was worried that some people were having hallucinations etc. Ongoing NI can cause all sorts of problems …
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