How to stabilize blood sugar during COVID illness?
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@sneedful said in How to stabilize blood sugar during COVID illness?:
*flu decimates bifido bacteria to ridiculous low levels. consistently across dozens and dozens of biome tests ive seen posted. natto and kefir might be your best friend after, as well as the normie adjacent gut protocols full of bifidogenic foods. not peaty stuff tho (raw onions, garlic, all sorts of veg and herbs etc)
Sneedy's angle rings with me. Soothe the shit out of that thang ().
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keep in mind that covid can lead easily to opportunistic bacterial pneumonia. This is one time I would get a chest x-ray is definitive for a diagnosis. There is NO other way to diagnose pneumonia. The chest x-ray is the gold standard.
I got pneumonia from a very severe bird flu and levofloxacin cured it.
My wife got pneumonia from covid and had a similar experience. We'd both be dead without that antibiotic as nothing else worked. I had tried doxy, amoxy, and azithro.
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i took amoxicillin while experiencing wuflu for the sore throat (i coughed up a ridiculous amount of phleghm after) and then switched to minocycline after the acute stage was over.. i was also on a high dose of cyproheptadine like 16-24mg a day. i had also taken a ton of methylene blue, (i dont know about mixing MB with minocycline, i think it causes that skin staining way faster [MB being a cycling redox substance and minocycline when oxidized causing the blue tint to tissues] that some people get with long term minocycline use, or maybe wuflu just causes melanin spots / moles [i read alot of reports about that].) luckily i didnt get pneumonia but the gut issues persisted for what felt like ages after and i got all sorts of other weird post wuflu symptoms. took like two years to clear up.
i think really being focused on the gut after the acute illness is over is the best way to dodge around lingering issues. many people i’ve seen got better as they got their lactobacilli and bifido back to normal levels. peatarians avoid probiotics and i think that’s a mistake. me getting significantly better quickly coincided with introducing alot more cooked and raw plant foods to my diet as well as doubling protein intake.
it was crazy tbh and i think i perservered without going to the clinic / hospital / losing my sanity because i experienced chronic fatigue before wuflu days and went through that whole mental trip before and recovered from it mostly. im actually better than i was pre-wuflu now. i , like peat, questioned if wuflu is even novel or new. it is. ive never experienced that kind of dysfunctional smell issue (one night i woke up and all i could smell was feces). and many times when i go to parties , public gatherings now, soon after ill have that tell tale sneezing and a few days of gut inflammation, and occasionally this really weird smell in the hallway/bathroom that is reminiscent of some sort of memory i have when i was like 8 years old idk.
oh yeah, i got over the final hump of post wuflu sequelae with 4mg nicotine gum 3x a day. i had really annoying muscle weakness and weird feeling tissues around my abdomen and pelvic area and it basically cleared up within a week of the nic gum. i had tried smoking tobacco but i dont think i was smoking enough to get that amount of nicotine. i also used other things on and off like emodin.
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@sneedful what a story.
I’ve had Covid twice. First time I got monoclonal antibodies that prevented a fever and I recovered from a severe Delta infection in a couple weeks (remember Delta?).
Then I got it about 2 years ago, and took Paxlovid. I think it was very helpful. People who have not had full blown really bad Covid don’t realize it can be very, very bad. The Paxlovid was amazing. I did rebound but it wasn’t too bad a rebound.
But the sickest I ever got was in 2020 March, when I had 105F fever for about a day and that’s when I got pneumonia. I had what I think was a very bad bird flu. I had to sit up for days, doing bag breathing, trying to survive. I was going to die at home if that’s what happened, but no hospital for me as Covid was starting and that seemed a grim way to go even then (I mean, in the hospital.)
So I didn’t tell my family how sick I was. My son took care of me and I stayed in my room alone to prevent transmission to my family.
I’m working on never getting sick again. I think Dr. Peat was sick from Covid for months and then died apparently from an aneurism which probably came from the Covid. That’s my speculation.
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@Ecstatic_Hamster i agree with you on the last part. i also think it is man-made . i havent personally done the research but a researcher i know of insists it is. im dissapointed the normies dont care about getting to the bottom of it. and then the people who i share alot in common with on other topics will say only people who took the jabs got very ill or lasting issues. when i know many people who never took any who dealt/are dealing with lingering issues. in fact i got the sickest out of anyone i personally know and im the sole unvaccinated one.
i actually feel like i was gonna be fine, just a sore throat, then a family member behaved in a really unfair and unjust way to me and i lost my temper and got really mad and yelled at them and instantly i realized how sick i was gonna get. i immediately felt it just as i finished yelling. i think aside from
the obvious stress causing the issue it was some sort of sensing mechanism where their cells attacked mine via an energetic communication field and i failed to defend aka i engaged them in argument / let them trigger me.you might have also had an early strain of covid that time you got really ill. my dog got insanely ill then too after a visit to the vet’s office. i think i read it was circulating as early as fall 2019
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@sneedful yeah, one of the dumb shit things people say here and there is, “it’s like the flu.” It can be like the flu, but it can be very very bad. I agree it’s man made probably based upon DNA analyses I read about. Seems like gain of function bla bla bla, but I never cared because either way you get sick, whatever the origin.
I never got the jab, neither did any of my immediate family either. Both my wife and I have gotten very sick with it. I never once considered the jab but to be fair, I know jabbed relatives who did not get sick at all. But, I have to note, many have had serious health issues since then which I connect with the jab. Blood clots, heart attacks, stroke, cancer.
Edited to add: I got sicklest from what I think was NOT Covid but was the flu.
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@Ecstatic_Hamster said in How to stabilize blood sugar during COVID illness?:
either way you get sick
I didn't. And I don't know anyone who did. I know people who had some mild reactions to to a med I didn't take and one victim of altered ARDS protocol, admitted for observance because they had a pre-existing comorbidity.
If biotech was actually capable of GoFR, surely we'd already be scanning a QR code to take a piss without a mass media campaign to try and instigate such a thing.
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@ThinPicking you didn't get sick in the last 4 or 5 years and you don't know anyone who did? That's amazing. Congratulations, that's quite an accomplishment.
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Where am I allowed to draw the line Hammy. I got a cold in January and worked through it. Before that my longest run without probably ever, and covering the whole ovid-policy period. Personal resolve not to get sick when I was told to fear it might have had something to do with it. But more likely the peaty advisories I was 2 years in to playing with when that whole thing began.
Others some sniffles here and there. Certainly nothing like your description. But these things do happen. A long long time ago I had a flu that felt like death. Borderline sepsis. I wasn't particularly health conscious then.
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@RPadmirateur said in How to stabilize blood sugar during COVID illness?:
@yerrag My respiratory symptoms are completely resolved, except that I still have a raspy voice. It is now a matter of trying drinks and foods that I can digest without having constipation or diarrhea, and managing my blood sugar, which swings high and then low, the highs and lows each causing a rise in systolic b.p., (sometimes in the 190s, but I can be 125 between the highs and lows. ) I have tried well cooked, grated mushroom and coconut oil to slow absorption down to stabilize blood sugar, but my digestive system is not ready for those just yet. Also working on adding some Cynoplus, very slowly, because I think my T3 protocol too easily gets disrupted when under extreme stress, such as having COVID. Anything that can stabilize the system is good.
I use an O²ring from Wellvue. Cost me $100 on sale and I use it to monitor my spO² during sleep and throughout the day when need be. It records reading every 4 seconds and when synced with my phone, I can view a chart. It also reads my heart rate. Way less popular than the Oura Ring but much more usedul and less costly, as the Oura has no spO² data, which I find more useful when if comes with heart rate data as well.
When I am not sure how well my lungs are doing, it can't lie to me. I can breathe seemingly well, but when I see dips going to the 80s and 70s, even momentary ones, I am on alert for the effects of poor oxygen intake from lungs have deeper implications. As tissue oxygenation is vital.
In the worst case, which happened to me, it could mean my res blood cells would die en masse, and it is a heavy load for my system to detox and get rid of. The heme in red blood cell, could easily cause carbon monoxide and free iron to be produced thru the action of heme oxygenase enzymes. This is very stressful especially when it causes a vicious cycle that affects our metabolism. How it does so is real, but too complicated to explain, as I currently am dealing with it. But it would stay a mystery only if I don't have gadgets with me, and if I weren't long into Peat's research.
But all I can say is that you mitochondrial metabolism is very much affected by the surrounding conditions, and when it becomes sub-optimal, your blood sugar regulation will also be affected.
Sorry this comes across as very general and vague, but specifics are hard to come by, as your unique context does not allow for cookie cutter approaches.