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@sun_in_winter12 - Christy Collins 🕊️
✨How I Recovered from Long Covid PEM:✨ Hey everyone, I've waited a while to share this - I wanted to make sure my improvements stuck. It's been almost a year now, in total - wow! 1/
@sun_in_winter12 - Christy Collins 🕊️
In spring 2024, I put together a 3-part treatment plan based on the idea that I needed to clear the SARS-CoV-2 virus from my body. While viral persistence may not be the root cause for everyone with Long Covid, I was strongly influenced by this 2024 preprint... 2/
@sun_in_winter12 - Christy Collins 🕊️
In this paper, Rodriguez et al studied biomarkers from a cohort of patients with severe Long COVID. What they found suggested a possible relationship between high anti-spike antibodies, a restrained T cell response, and viral persistence in LC. 3/
@sun_in_winter12 - Christy Collins 🕊️
Hey everyone, I wanted to highlight this groundbreaking #longcovid preprint If you haven’t seen this yet you should know: **High anti-spike antibodies that don’t wane 6 months after infection may be a sign of viral persistence** 1/ 👇 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.11.24302636v1
@sun_in_winter12 - Christy Collins 🕊️
My own anti-spike antibodies immediately following my Feb 2023 acute infection were off the charts - >12,500 U/mL. Compare this to Oct 2021 when I'd only been vaccinated - they were 2000 U/mL. 4/
@sun_in_winter12 - Christy Collins 🕊️
The viral persistence hypothesis had always terrified me. In the back of my mind, I think I always knew it was my root cause - but I was scared to face it. Once I read this preprint, I decided it was time to face it. 5/
@sun_in_winter12 - Christy Collins 🕊️
I planned my treatment meticulously before I started. With a virus that was possibly actively replicating, I knew I had to hit it as hard as I could, all at once. I didn’t want to treat it halfway, and give it the chance to mutate. So I planned a siege. 6/
@sun_in_winter12 - Christy Collins 🕊️
My goal was to do everything I could to both fight the virus directly, as well as optimize my immune response. ✨My plan had 3 main pillars:✨ 1) Mitochondrial & Metabolic Support 2) Antivirals 3) Immune Stimulants 7/
@sun_in_winter12 - Christy Collins 🕊️
1: Mitochondrial & Metabolic Support Viruses take over our mitochondria to replicate. The more difficult we can make for it to do that, by keeping our own human chemical reactions going, the more we can slow the virus down. 8/
@sun_in_winter12 - Christy Collins 🕊️
Glutathione, CoQ10, alpha lipoic acid can all help with this. Glutathione in particular has been shown to have multiple antiviral properties. It's often depleted in chronic infections such as HIV, and supplementing it can help restore immune function. 9/
@sun_in_winter12 - Christy Collins 🕊️
Glutathione specifically has been shown to improve the immune response. It plays an important role in t-cell and natural killer cell function - two types of cells which we need to clear virally infected cells! 10/
@sun_in_winter12 - Christy Collins 🕊️
There's a lot you can do to make it more difficult for the virus to invade your cells. For example, Omega-3 and alpha lipoic acid can help strengthen your cells' membranes so the virus has to work harder to break through. 11/ https://bit.ly/41x8Ue1
@sun_in_winter12 - Christy Collins 🕊️
I also used things like: coconut oil - powerful antiviral Brazil nuts for selenium - glutathione precursor miso + yogurt for probiotics - immunomodulatory properties Some of this I'd started earlier - more info in my previous update here: https://longcovidbegone.substack.com/p/a-positive-update-how-i-stopped-needing 12/
@sun_in_winter12 - Christy Collins 🕊️
P.S. Ok this is not the end - will discuss Pillars 2 and 3 in a bit!!!!!