For almost three years, scientists have raced to understand the immune responses in patients who develop severe COVID-19, with an enormous effort aimed at defining where healthy immunity ends and destructive immunity begins. In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, much attention focused on reports of harmful inflammation and so-called cytokine storms – dangerous…
Long COVID: How Researchers Are Zeroing in on the Self-Targeted Immune Attacks That May Lurk Behind It
Traditional Chinese Medicine a New Way to Treat ‘Long COVID’: Japanese Physicians
August 24, 2022
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Although it has been almost two years since COVID-19 first broke out, many still struggle with post-COVID conditions, also known as “long COVID.” Recently, Japanese doctors have shown that traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) can be used to treat both COVID-19 and long COVID. Ken Ritsugaku is a TCM physician, a member of the Japan Society…
COVID Dreams: The Pandemic’s Effect On Sleep and Mental Health
August 11, 2022
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Research from the Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health at Australia’s Monash University has shown that the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the sleep habits and dreams of people across the world. The findings came out of a global survey on mental health and sleep, which was carried out during the pandemic with over 2000 participants,…
Understanding Long COVID: Study Finds Biological Difference In People With Prolonged Infection
May 27, 2022
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University of New South Wales (UNSW) researchers have discovered that people who develop long COVID are biologically different, with their immune systems uniquely responding to the virus. UNSW’s ADAPT study was intended to observe the mental health and neurological, respiratory and cardiac functions of patients that had contracted COVID-19 to determine how the body was…
Therapies That Can Help Ease Long COVID Breathlessness, Fatigue
Occupational therapy or low-impact exercise might be the key to relieving long-haul COVID symptoms like extreme fatigue, breathlessness and brain fog, a pair of new studies from Ireland suggest. The studies reflect two different — in some ways, opposite — approaches to dealing with symptoms that tend to plague long COVID patients. One study taught long COVID…
What should I do if I have long COVID?
Over two years into the pandemic, an alarming number of people continue to develop symptoms months after recovering from COVID-19. It’s estimated that anywhere from 10 to 30% of people that have been infected with COVID-19 will develop long COVID symptoms.1 “Long-haulers” report a wide range of physical, mental, and cognitive symptoms — including chronic fatigue,…
Ask a Doctor: How Do I Drop My Pandemic Stress Load?
May 3, 2022
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The last two plus years of the COVID-19 pandemic have created a biologically toxic load of stress for many, if not most, people around the world. Social isolation—created by lengthy quarantines, lockdowns, masks, and social distancing—has taken a toll on our mental health. And what happens in the mind, echoes throughout the body. Many have…
How the Spike Protein Hurts the Heart
Evidence-based data show the spike protein is responsible for endothelial damage that hurts the heart. This is the same spike injected in the jab. STORY AT-A-GLANCE The FDA ignored warnings before the vaccine was distributed that it would likely cause organ damage; data published before and after the program was initiated showed it was the…
Coping With Vaccine Side Effects
March 27, 2022
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The vaccines promoted to protect against COVID-19 are described as safe. So why are there so many reports of adverse reactions? And just how much harm do these shots cause? There is no easy metric to answer these questions, but there are a variety of sources to consider. One source is the Vaccine Adverse Events…
Memory Issues Plague Long COVID Patients
Memory and concentration problems haunt 7 in 10 patients with long COVID, a pair of new studies indicate. The findings suggest that COVID-19 has a notable impact on brain health, even if the precise underlying mechanisms remain unclear, British researchers said. “We set out to explore whether some of the long-lasting issues in COVID — things…
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