2022-01-26 15:44:51
Hey guys, new research came out today that was reported in the New York Times about a predicted model for whether or not someone will get Long Covid. I am post this only here on t.me/aspreyofficial and not on Insta. If you don’t follow me here, you probably won’t see it. Please share as you see fit.
There are four things that made you much more likely to get long covid in the study:
- lots of viral RNA in your blood early on in the infection
- type 2 diabetes
- autoimmunity
- reactivated Epstein Barr virus
Of course, the researchers said a lot more research was needed before you do anything.
I respectfully disagree. If there are things you can do that are known to be low risk that help with the above conditions, and are going to be good for you regardless of your risk of getting long Covid, you should do them. It’s good anyway and it has a reasonable chance of reducing your risk.
Given this new information, here is what I think about:
1: there are some new and expensive drugs that inhibit viral replication like monlupiravir. There is also an old one that uses the same mechanism as the new one, is on the WHO list of vital drugs, and rhymes with “I’m your lectin.” This old drug did *not* prevent me from getting Covid when I got it. But if it inhibited the amount of virus, it may have been beneficial. I don’t know.
2: Type two diabetes isn’t easy to solve right away, but I wonder what metformin would do to risk? The fastest things that I know to help people get their cellular energetics back would be oxaloacetate (a supplement) and MCT oil. Both of those allow your cells to make more energy, which is a problem when you have diabetes. Having more energy in your cells is generally beneficial for everything.
3: Auto immunity is also hard to solve obviously, but reducing overactive immune system unction seems like a really good idea, doesn’t it? The protocol that has been working for long Covid so far is Claritin and Pepcid twice a day to block histamine receptors. That seems like a reasonable risk because they work well for allergies and short term blocking of histamine does not appear to have meaningful side effects in the vast majority of people as far as I have seen.
-reactivated Epstein-Barr virus is much easier to deal with than you might think. It turns out that chicken pox, herpes and EBV are lipid encapsulated viruses, which means they are susceptible to a common and almost free oil preservative called BHT. A small amount of BHT taken orally rapidly suppresses those viruses ability to replicate, about 250mg-2000mg.
None of this is likely to keep you from getting an endemic virus. But if you do get it, maybe in this knowledge, matched against your own medical conditions, and run by whatever medical advisers you have, will be useful for reducing the chances of longer term problems. This is not medical advice and I am not qualified to provide medical advice. It is biohacking plausible thinking!
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