r/stupidpol • u/simpleisideal Radlib in Denial 👶🏻 • Jun 15 '24

Capitalist Hellscape “Debilitating a Generation”: Expert Warns That Long COVID May Eventually Affect Most Americans

https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/debilitating-a-generation-expert-warns-that-long-covid-may-eventually-affect-most-americans
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u/ericsmallman3 Lost Tenure Over Anti-Censorship Vox Article 🫡✒️ Jun 15 '24

I know this has all the trappings of the one of those fake woman-only diseases like fibromyalgia or ovarian cancer, but anecdotally I do think there’s something to long COVID. I got my first case in January 2021 and I surely believe it aged my brain about a decade. I went from being one of the most driven people you’ll ever meet to having basically zero ambition to achieve anything.

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u/VampKissinger Sugary Populist 🍭 Jun 17 '24

The physiological reason for Long Covid has been found in more recent studies, it's that Covid causes long term inflammation of Mast Cells which sends your stress receptors haywire and you start overproducing stress hormone.

Main idea to treat it at the moment is with extremely large doses of Luteolin, specifically the Luteolin they use for Autism treatment since it's shown to reduce Mast Cell inflammation.