Many parts of life leave us feeling trapped, and since 2020 that includes feeling stuck with getting this or that variant of COVID intermittently. Besides feeling annoyed that it keeps biting us with acute episodes, many also have to deal with the repeated waves of intensified Long COVID or Post COVID syndrome. This study offers…
Really Long COVID May Not Be Brain Inflammation Searching for the complete understanding of Long COVID is like hunting for the legendary gold buried in the deep jungle. The journey twists and turns as we try to unravel why so many struggle for years after COVID, while some others bounce back the following week. This…
COVID Wakes Up Viruses and Bacteria We can agree with a microbiologist at Rutgers that “this is an aspect of long COVID that is not talked about a lot,” in reference to the coinfections that travel with COVID 19. This news comes as no surprise to functional medicine doctors who have been treating Lyme coinfections…
COVID 19 Ages Women’s Blood Vessels While the entire world feels older after COVID 19’s big entrance, in this study researchers found that women’s blood vessels of women post-COVID infection, regardless of infection, were measurably older. Your next question should be, “What do you mean by older?” As we age, our blood vessels age by…
COVID Effects on the Gut-Brain Axis COVID has left diagnosable lingering effects on our guts beyond the “gut feeling” that we are sick and tired of hearing about COVID. A recent study looking across the globe reveals that a specific type of GI diagnoses have increased from pre-COVID to the present, leading researchers to dig…
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Mast Cells Getting Nasty in Long Hauler COVID (The main portion of this article was posted in 2021, but further research citations at the end support what the original article asserted. Mast Cells play a significant role in acute and long COVID symptoms. While the final cited study goes against the grain, most studies indicate…
Could Immunity Theft be Behind Long COVID? While few of us want to think about COVID again, this research suggests it may be stealing more from us than just energy and daily function. The Long COVID tendency may be due to it stealing from our immune defenses, creating openings for other new infections to break…
Throughout history new tools have often brought about unintended consequences in society and our new field of mRNA vaccines appear to fall into that category of possible ‘uh-oh.’ Multiple times, even in recent decades, initial excitement over drug discoveries has turned into dashed dreams and even scandals. With the COVID epidemic, mRNA technology, which had…
Shocker News that Long COVID Has No Approved Therapies With a reported 65 million people worldwide dealing with Long COVID at some point, we have enough research (about time) that indicates that a variety of mechanisms contribute to Long COVID including micro-clots in blood vessels and ongoing inflammation. However, despite a few years under our…