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This week: more resources on CFS, Long Covid, MCAS and shingles, a subscriber asks why she is hungry ALL THE TIME, a great snack idea to help, plus more, of course. Enjoy x More resources on CFS/ME, Long Covid, MCAS and shingles Well, my post on antivirals for CFS, ME, Long Covid, shingles etc really …
Are you worrying about getting colds, flu or the dreaded Covid this year? Do you want to avoid the inevitable mood drop some of us get when the weather gets 'mizzly' as we call it here in Cornwall? Yep. Me too. My number one top tip for Winter Wellness is to check and get your …
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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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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 …
Great reminder today from Nutrigold about why zinc is just so important as a mineral. I always think zinc and magnesium are FAR more important in many ways than the usual calcium and iron you never stop hearing about. In these COVID times, zinc is particularly crucial - which is why it is recommended in …
Just added this to the COVID Guidance document for you: Glutathione It is well-known that levels of the 'master antioxidant' glutathione drop off as we get older. There is some research and suggestion now that glutathione levels might be key to Covid, as a preventative, managing severity and in recovery. Have a read of Dr …
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“Vitamin D could almost be thought of as a designer drug for helping the body to handle viral respiratory infections..... It boosts the ability of cells to kill and resist viruses and simultaneously dampens down harmful inflammation, which is one of the big problems with Covid.” Dr. Adrian Martineau, a professor of respiratory infection and immunity …
I am aware that whilst some people get only mild cases of Covid-19, others really go through the mill with it and the recovery process can be lengthy and arduous. I was considering how we might be able to aid recovery in some way and a few things have occurred to me, so I thought …
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