Hey, doc, quick question! I'm fairly certain I came down with some variant this past week. Thankfully, because I had some Olive Leaf, NAC and other supplements on hand, it didn't progress past a painful cough and some other mild flu-like symptoms. Feeling better now, except that I've suddenly lost my sense of smell/taste! Any advice for getting that back? My coffee tastes like hot water!
That is interesting. I had a friend who smoked a lot. He said that whenever he felt a cold coming, smoking cigarettes would stop that cold in its tracks.
The spike protein is similar shape to nicotine, so it gets locked into the nicotine receptors in the body. However the receptors vastly prefer nicotine so will punt out spike protein if nicotine is available. Some people having success with nicotine gum or patches.
This sounds like damage to the vagus nerve, as do many long-covid symptoms. Run a search on long covid and the vagus nerve. Following is my account of the relationship between covid and the vagus nerve (not specifically long covid) and what we can do about it.
Can you expand on this? I have been using it to control blood sugar, but am aware it is also recommended for covid. When you say "worked", what dose did you take for how long, and how did you know the treatment was complete?
This about observed melatonin effects with high- and low- and auto-inflammatory processes, discussing regarding in vitro - in vivo, and also discussing ia IL-6, from 2018, interesting:
Rudiger Hardeland,
"Melatonin and inflammation—Story of a double-edged blade",
Hey, doc, quick question! I'm fairly certain I came down with some variant this past week. Thankfully, because I had some Olive Leaf, NAC and other supplements on hand, it didn't progress past a painful cough and some other mild flu-like symptoms. Feeling better now, except that I've suddenly lost my sense of smell/taste! Any advice for getting that back? My coffee tastes like hot water!
Read a post of women who lost smell so she smoked a cigarette and it xame back. Anecdotal but though I would pass it along.
That is interesting. I had a friend who smoked a lot. He said that whenever he felt a cold coming, smoking cigarettes would stop that cold in its tracks.
The spike protein is similar shape to nicotine, so it gets locked into the nicotine receptors in the body. However the receptors vastly prefer nicotine so will punt out spike protein if nicotine is available. Some people having success with nicotine gum or patches.
This sounds like damage to the vagus nerve, as do many long-covid symptoms. Run a search on long covid and the vagus nerve. Following is my account of the relationship between covid and the vagus nerve (not specifically long covid) and what we can do about it.
https://christinekent.substack.com/p/the-vagus-nerve-and-the-bug
Berberin worked for me
Can you expand on this? I have been using it to control blood sugar, but am aware it is also recommended for covid. When you say "worked", what dose did you take for how long, and how did you know the treatment was complete?
I lost smell/taste for 9 months. I started taking famotidine (Pepcid) and it came back rapidly in less than 2 weeks.
I'm not a doctor but try zinc combined with quercetin.
What is your opinion on melatonin as an antioxidant as presented here? https://youtu.be/sNklS0lzlgA
I have used it ocasionally to improve sleep and it is very powerful even at a 3 mg dosage. It would be great if it also acted as an antioxidant.
not in covid boosts il-6
This about observed melatonin effects with high- and low- and auto-inflammatory processes, discussing regarding in vitro - in vivo, and also discussing ia IL-6, from 2018, interesting:
Rudiger Hardeland,
"Melatonin and inflammation—Story of a double-edged blade",
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jpi.12525
You said "not in Covid", I guess Covid is to be considered as an autoimmune process due to the spike protein?
see c19early.com for all kinds of supplements for protecting against and healing from covid
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