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Water fast is when the only intake is water (plus electrolites and vitamines). Basically "eat nothing".
> Basically "eat nothing". Thanks for this, reading "water fast" and "3 days" gave me a shot of adrenaline. The "water" prefix is just confusing, the word for abstaining from food is just "fast" for those interested. If this is engagement bait, then well played..
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Maybe it is because you are vaccinated?
Maybe a bit of a strange take, but after having dealt with chronic illness personally and talked with a lot of others with chronic illness, I don't think classifying chronic illness by symptoms will help with curing, and in fact I don't think categorizing works at all for chronic illness. We've been trying to classify chronic illnesses for so long, and yet in most cases no pattern emerges. This has led me to conclude…
For example Organic Acids in Urine Test gives you some 70-80 metabolic markers, which some folks interpret. There's no large scale RCTs or studies on this, so it's a bit dubious. But I did one and the practitioner correctly read the leaves to suggest some things that were missing and which helped me (glutathione and B1).
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These comments show me how amazing the world of covid disinformation still is. After every country/health authority in the entire world studying it for so long and all coming to the exact same conclusions there's still those who are positive they know better. Billions of people being studied for years vs I heard it from some dude on Twitter.
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Serotonin is among other things a nausea and thermoregulation neurotransmitter, and has to do with cognition. Most serotonin in the body is synthesized in the gut – a highly enervated endothelial membrane – transported by platelets, and metabolized in the lung.
SARS-CoV-2 is known to damage endothelium, known to cause really weird platelet and blood clotting issues like platelet necroptosis and infection and alteration of bone marrow platelet progenitor cells, known to cause lung injury. In a whole bunch of ways.
Why are women far more likely to have long covid?
The results follow a 2024 study led by Dr Mulu Woldegiorgis that surveyed 11,000 people from Western Australia three months after they contracted COVID-19. Almost one-in-five (18.2 per cent) had developed long COVID. The researchers then monitored the same group of people six months after their initial infection.
“We wanted to get a sense of the trajectory for people with long COVID. After six months, the average number of symptoms remained stable, indicating little improvement,” she said.
and from that study:
In multivariable analyses, pre-existing health conditions at the time of initial SARS-CoV-2 infection and reporting fatigue, shortness of breath, and cough 3 months post-infection were independent predictors of persistent long COVID.
Age, sex, and number of COVID vaccinations were not significantly associated with persistent long COVID.
Why are women far more likely to have long covid?
This person told me it was sure it was related to COVID because there was nothing before or after it and that was the only thing that happened.
Kinda sucks to thing that everytime it might be a chance for that or worse
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Not necessarily fake. Mind/body homeostasis is WAY more complicated than that. To use a computing analogy, which doesn't map perfectly onto the body, if consciousness awareness is userland, you can have things go wrong which are localised in ring 0 - brain drugs will be to some degree effective on those, that doesn't mean it's fake or made up. In reality there are fuzzy boundaries and feedback loops everywhere. SSRIs…
The classic psychological explanation is the patient only thinks they are sick. But the reality is their body is behaving like they are sick. Worse the classic explanation why you feel sick is 'toxins' from an infection and that is wrong. It's your reaction to feedback from your immune system.