Overcoming long Covid by fasting
- Condition
- Long COVID
- At worst
- Severe (mostly bedbound)
- Ill for
- 3 months
- Published
- Jan 2022
Summary
Michel Falck, a 60-year-old wine dealer from Strasbourg, had lost his sense of taste and smell, could not concentrate enough to read, had not been able to play piano and struggled with language for two and a half months after a COVID infection. At the Buchinger Wilhelmi clinic he started on 1200 kcal the first day, cut to 800 kcal the next with no breakfast, then continued with 16:8 intermittent fasting on the following days. He described bursting into tears when he found he could play the piano "almost perfectly" again, regained most of his sense of smell and taste and resumed reading, though some fatigue continued to fluctuate as he planned a gradual return to work.
What they credit
Credits Diet, Extended water fasting (3+ days), Intermittent fasting.
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