Long Covid

Long COVID is a collection of symptoms that can last for three months to three years and beyond after your first COVID symptoms. It can sink your energy; your ability to think clearly; drive negative emotions; make your nose run at any time; remove your sense of smell or taste, remove your muscle tone and  strength. You might feel anxious or depressed; get frequent headaches; be short of breath or have heart  palpitations.  

The symptoms could mimic autoimmune, heart, lung, liver, neurological or psychological disorders. Some  symptoms can be mild while others can be completely debilitating. They may come and go, change or get  worse over time—it depends on your body’s basic vitality. You may feel like you never really recovered  from COVID. 

Long COVID is also called long-haul COVID, post-COVID syndrome, post acute sequelae of COVID-19  and even Long-VAX. It is comparable with myalgic encephalomyelitis, chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS).  Because of the different symptoms and possible causes, the most successful treatments are based on individual symptoms. There is a basis to the treatment and to get normalising results, there are extra treatments  related to specific symptoms. 

The two most common symptoms are chronic fatigue (lack of energy), shortness of breath and physical weak ness. Other symptoms include:

1. Loss or altered sense of smell (anosmia) or taste (dysgeusia) 
2. Trouble thinking or focusing—brain fog. 
3. Chronic cough 
4. Headaches 
5. Difficulty sleeping or insomnia 
6. Depression 
7. Anxiety 
8. Chest pain 
9. Heart palpitations 
10. Diarrhoea 
11. Skin rashes 
12. Eyesight degeneration 

What causes long COVID? 

The causes of Long Covid (and Long-Vax) involve the synthetic Covid spike protein on the one hand and the  competency of the person’s immune system at the time of catching the Covid virus; or breathing in the  Covid spike in high density from Covid shedding; or from one of the mRNA ‘vaccines’ and boosters. 

With Long Covid, cells in various parts of the body continue to manufacture the Covid spike and it is this spike that causes the immune system to lose competency—sometimes overreacting and causing inflammation in your organs and tissues (eg mast cell responses) long after the initial infection has stopped; sometimes causing the immune system to attack the body’s organs as autoimmune diseases (eg. Covid spike induced thrombocytopenia); or removes the ability of the immune system to surveil for cancer cells forming and aggregating into a tumour (turbo cancers).

When your immune system loses its competency, then pathogens in the body can flourish (virus, bacteria, fungi  and parasites). For example, members of the herpes group of viruses, being opportunist pathogens, can reactivate from dormancy and disrupt cellular and immune function: Herpes simplex virus (cold sore); Genital  herpes; Varicella-zoster virus (chicken pox); Epstein-Barr virus; Cytomegalovirus; Human B-lymphotropic  virus; Human beta-herpesvirus-7; Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus-8. 

Long-term psychological effects associated with Long Covid.  

If you had a severe case of COVID, especially if you were hospitalized, you might have ongoing anxiety,  depression or other mental health conditions as a result. This can be caused by the triggering of partial fructose intolerance, changes to gastrointestinal tract, lungs, kidney or bladder flora as well as spike induced  changes to brain network. 

The approach we take to guiding people back to normal health involves, natural medicines, therapies (self  therapies also) and lifestyle 

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