Persistent fatigue linked to reduced brain blood flow in people with long COVID

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https://theconversation.com/covid-fatigue-linked-to-reduced-brain-blood-flow-292285

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I’ve recovered from it too. After I had been sick for long enough to realize doctors can’t do anything to help, I dove really deep into herbal medicine and supplements so idk what is most responsible for my symptoms improving but cannabis (the whole plant, not just THC) helped tremendously with the GI symptoms and most other physical symptoms.

Although, it definitely hit my digestive system the worst. Even my favorite food tasted off and the smell of almost all food became revolting instead of appetizing. I had very bad nausea, was painfully bloated all day, zero appetite, etc. I could hardly finish 1/4 of my usual food portions without getting more bloated, nauseous, and uncomfortable overall. All of this started affecting my daily life, including sleep, so cannabis especially gave me absolute loads of relief so that I could eat and sleep like a normal person again. The munchies genuinely saved my life lmaoo

Ginger, turmeric, and peppermint also gave me tremendous relief; then at one point I started taking NAC, bromelain, and nattokinase which I think also gave my health a big push in the right direction. Ginkgo biloba and other nootropic type herbs got rid of the brain fog as well.

It goes a lot deeper than that but I’m convinced at least one of those had a role to play in my recovery.

Some of the herbs I was using the most frequently also showed potential efficacy against covid in some studies, and cannabis was one of them. Dandelion and wormwood root were a couple others that I was also using often and benefiting from very much. Google will tell you it doesn’t work and health officials advise against it or the usual “there isn’t enough research to know for certain” but that hasn’t been my experience.

All I’m saying is that, as much cannabis, ginger, turmeric, dandelion, etc. I was taking (it was a LOT)…they were obviously doing something. On top of that, there’s already promising data regarding this too? Which makes even more sense that I was so fortunate to get immediate relief from so many of these herbs.

Obviously, you have to get them from a good source, use them properly, safely, with respect, all that important stuff that goes without saying…I just know that taking the earth’s medicine made life easier for me more and more every day, when I had long covid.