Healing from Long Covid with water fasting
- Condition
- Long COVID
- At worst
- Severe (mostly bedbound)
- Ill for
- 11 months
- Published
- Oct 2022
Summary
Eleven months into Long COVID with chest pain, breathlessness, anxiety and depression, Luke did a 28-day water-only fast built around three short dry-fasting stretches of 36, 60 and 84 hours roughly a week apart. Fatigue and brain fog cleared within the first four weeks, though COVID-type symptoms briefly resurfaced on days 6-8 and during each dry-fasting block, and refeeding brought two days of chest inflammation. Afterward he said chest symptoms only appeared with vigorous exercise and his thinking felt back to normal without the depression or anxiety, and a later follow-up on the same case found him still symptom-free four years on.
Read it in their words
waterfasting.org — this page sells a treatment, program or service.
What they credit
Credits Diet, Extended water fasting (3+ days).
Symptoms mentioned
Symptoms: Anxiety & low mood, Brain fog, Breathlessness, Heart symptoms & palpitations, Pain & fibromyalgia.
Side effects or harms mentioned
- Refeeding or deficiency problems
Fatigue and brain fog cleared within the first four weeks, though COVID-type symptoms briefly resurfaced on days 6-8 and during each dry-fasting block, and refeeding brought two days of chest inflammation.
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