UNDERSTANDING & HEALING LONG COVID

The most frightening thing about Long COVID is how little medical science knows about it.

Fortunately this is beginning to change. Even while there’s still no lab test that can document it and diagnosis is clinical, a range of investigators and researchers have identified several different metabolic dynamics underpinning the syndrome. This is allowing cutting-edge clinicians and even well-informed non-professionals to begin to treat it successfully.

But for those who aren’t aware of this work and wondering what to do about their fatigue, inability to concentrate, insomnia, extreme anxiety and fatigue … and why their regular docs can’t help them … the situation can be terrifying indeed.

We’ll review the latest research into the metabolic dynamics underpinning Long COVID 1,2,3 and examine the functional medicine nutrient-based interventions that appear to be working.4,5,6,7

Just knowing there are reputable sources of online information available will give you a sense of greater agency over the situation … invaluable for addressing the anxiety and depression so common in Long COVID patients. This is a crucial first step on the road to healing

Long COVID appears to be a pleiomorphic syndrome … it appears to have different causes in different people and presents with an incredibly broad range of idiosyncratic symptoms. Chronic, persistent, low-grade infections, autoimmune dynamics, viral debris clogging arteries and kidneys … all these and more combine to make healing from Long COVID an extraordinary challenge.

Yet it’s precisely because those of us who haven’t become medical professionals aren’t blinded by the assumptions underlying 20th-century medicine, just about anyone can learn relatively quickly about the different options we have, how to use them, and get support from those who’ve already seen how they work.

This course, designed for professionals and taught by one of the earliest acupuncturists licensed in the US, will introduce you to the various schools of thought and the approaches they’ve found valuable.

And here’s the kicker: the things we learn as we overcome Long COVID are the very same lessons we’ll need to maintain our health and function as we age, setting the stage for a longer, healthier and more functional life.