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I switched to carnivore 100% for a month when I started improving. I was taking mitochondrial supplements like megadosing B1/B2/B3/Niagen/NMN, CoQ10 + PQQ, L-ca

I switched to carnivore 100% for a month when I started improving. I was taking mitochondrial supplements like megadosing B1/B2/B3/Niagen/NMN, CoQ10 + PQQ, L-carnitine, R ALA, pterostilbene. I took 1000-2000mg bovine lactoferrin with up to 120mg iron bisglycinate and 25-50mg benadryl for nights. I mixed my own AXA1125 (BCAA, Glutamine, NAC and Arginine + vitamin C) and took about 50g a day of that. I took endothelial stuff like nattokinase, serrapeptase, aspirin, diosmin:hesperidin, aescin, curcumin, quercetin, K2, ginkgo, pycnogenol/OPC, omega-3, kyolic, hawthorn berry. I ate 1 non-sweet chocolate a day (100% Lindt) to raise adiponectin and PQQ. I took like 5g of magnesium bisglycinate and potassium citrate a day. Daily workout was important even if it sometimes went to painful headaches which I controlled by ibuprofen and tylenol (the first two weeks were particularly horrible). Lately I added stuff like astragalus, artemisinin, dandelion root, boswellic acid, trans resveratrol, red beet, PEA + luteolin. I feel 1000x better than in February when I thought I could die at any moment.

Exuma 3y ago
Wow, thats quite the list. Saving this in case I know anyone with similar problems. My dad lost his smell sadly
- japostoles 3y ago
  Please see my comment on the parent -- my lingering symptom was loss of smell, along with some cardio issues. While I haven't tested the cardio side "for real, for real" yet, I'm a couple months in with that concoction and my sense of smell is back to what I remember prior to my covidx2 experience.
dunefox 3y ago
Would have been interesting if you had logged your biodata with an Oura ring, or so. I'm planning on doing something like this to get out of a kind of fatigue and sleep problems. I also have a rowing machine, incidentally.
- treprinum 3y ago
  I only tracked data with my smartwatch, my resting HR was basically going down from over 100 to under 60 in 1 month. Oxygen level was 95-99% all the time, but I never got ScvO2/SvO2 measured in the hospital (some say LC folks have only 20-40% SvO2 which is ICU level).
  - dunefox 3y ago
    Which watch? They're differing quite a lot in accuracy. Heart rate is mostly fine, but I wouldn't necessarily trust Oxygen or sleep phase tracking. https://www.youtube.com/@TheQuantifiedScientist https://www.youtube.com/@TheQuantifiedScientist
    - treprinum 3y ago
      I think it was one of the Huawei watches.
candiddevmike 3y ago
Good luck unpacking all of that and coming off of it. A few of those things you probably shouldn't be on (daily aspirin), a lot of it you shouldn't stay on (all of the *ase, combined with aspirin is a huge bleed risk), and most of it has no evidence around it on examine. I think the exercise helped more than your cocktail of woo.
- treprinum 3y ago
  That's where I think you are wrong, read my earlier comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36862855#36865016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36862855#36865016 COVID seems to be an endothelial illness, i.e. preventing blood from delivering nutrients and oxygen to cells. Moreover, spike protein seems to act as iron transport inhibitor hepcidin meaning you might end up with a lot of iron outside cells with cells getting into functional anemia. -ases + 100mg aspirin were about trying to break down "microclots" for which I didn't have a direct evidence as no lab was willing to do the test but only indirect evidence from some Australian medical doctor that only started recovering when adding -ases + aspirin + endothelial stuff to his mix. See: https://xdrx.substack.com/p/how-i-recovered-from-long-covid-using https://xdrx.substack.com/p/how-i-recovered-from-long-covid-...
empressplay 3y ago
much of what you're taking helps with Mast Cell Activation Syndrome, which is common with long Covid
- treprinum 3y ago
  It's possible it was a component of that but I never specifically tracked MCAS symptoms. I basically took everything anyone remotely mentioned as helping them or appearing in some medical literature if it was OTC ;-)

Exuma 3y ago

Wow, thats quite the list. Saving this in case I know anyone with similar problems. My dad lost his smell sadly

japostoles 3y ago
Please see my comment on the parent -- my lingering symptom was loss of smell, along with some cardio issues. While I haven't tested the cardio side "for real, for real" yet, I'm a couple months in with that concoction and my sense of smell is back to what I remember prior to my covidx2 experience.

dunefox 3y ago

Would have been interesting if you had logged your biodata with an Oura ring, or so. I'm planning on doing something like this to get out of a kind of fatigue and sleep problems. I also have a rowing machine, incidentally.

treprinum 3y ago
I only tracked data with my smartwatch, my resting HR was basically going down from over 100 to under 60 in 1 month. Oxygen level was 95-99% all the time, but I never got ScvO2/SvO2 measured in the hospital (some say LC folks have only 20-40% SvO2 which is ICU level).
- dunefox 3y ago
  Which watch? They're differing quite a lot in accuracy. Heart rate is mostly fine, but I wouldn't necessarily trust Oxygen or sleep phase tracking. https://www.youtube.com/@TheQuantifiedScientist https://www.youtube.com/@TheQuantifiedScientist
  - treprinum 3y ago
    I think it was one of the Huawei watches.

candiddevmike 3y ago

Good luck unpacking all of that and coming off of it. A few of those things you probably shouldn't be on (daily aspirin), a lot of it you shouldn't stay on (all of the *ase, combined with aspirin is a huge bleed risk), and most of it has no evidence around it on examine. I think the exercise helped more than your cocktail of woo.

treprinum 3y ago
That's where I think you are wrong, read my earlier comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36862855#36865016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36862855#36865016 COVID seems to be an endothelial illness, i.e. preventing blood from delivering nutrients and oxygen to cells. Moreover, spike protein seems to act as iron transport inhibitor hepcidin meaning you might end up with a lot of iron outside cells with cells getting into functional anemia. -ases + 100mg aspirin were about trying to break down "microclots" for which I didn't have a direct evidence as no lab was willing to do the test but only indirect evidence from some Australian medical doctor that only started recovering when adding -ases + aspirin + endothelial stuff to his mix. See: https://xdrx.substack.com/p/how-i-recovered-from-long-covid-using https://xdrx.substack.com/p/how-i-recovered-from-long-covid-...

empressplay 3y ago

much of what you're taking helps with Mast Cell Activation Syndrome, which is common with long Covid

treprinum 3y ago
It's possible it was a component of that but I never specifically tracked MCAS symptoms. I basically took everything anyone remotely mentioned as helping them or appearing in some medical literature if it was OTC ;-)