As I write this little memoir of memories, experiences, lessons, and strategies on my journey with long covid, I get giddy with excitement as I bounce a ball off the wall, my leg jittering up and down because I'm so full of energy again. Thinking about going out and cutting down trees and going for runs when I'm not sitting at the computer, writing, or trying to help others with long covid. Do you know what the biggest problem is?
People are scared of dry fasting.
They see it and they cower in fear. They'd rather suffer from their symptoms than take a stab at something that elicits fear in them. I guess you truly have to be desperate to try dry fasting if you're not an open-minded person.
Some would call you a sheep, listening to mainstream media and the mainstream idea that fasting is bad for you. But.. but this isn't fasting, you say. It's kidney damage! You have to drink water! My answer to that is once again, we've been lied to. Metabolic water is a thing and you should read about it here.
The problem with dry fasting as a cure is that the large proportion of people that practice it are so far into the spiritual realm, that they're seen as batshit crazy by most of the rest of the population. But a real game changer is hidden in their craziness, and it's dry fasting. The beauty of it? Almost everything can be explained by science, even if believing in frequencies and prana is the hottest thing in fasting right now.
What are the most annoying things about post covid illness and the long haul?
Is it the random ticks you might get in your eyes, as the virus likes to sit around in hard-to-reach places? Is it the clicking in your jaw as you feel a deficiency in your bones or joints? Pain in your ankles? Increase in spider veins, or little bumps in your veins as you work out indicating some form of blood clotting? The migraines, depression, trouble breathing, brain fog, or fatigue don't count, as those are all major symptoms that make you ready to end your life. Is it the chronic feeling of being sick? A little something in your sinuses at all times, or maybe inflamed lymph nodes that won't go away?
Your lymphatic system is under attack. Your whole body is undergoing a battle. There are no one or two drugs that are going to help you as much as fasting, which will target everything. But can water fasting keep up with the damage? I don't think so.
That's why you need to fight fire with fire... and in this case, it's the dry fasting fire.
There is no way in hell you're healing severe long covid with one extended fast. This is a marathon, not a sprint, you can actually do more damage by going too long too early with not enough prep.
The medical community is baffled by long covid and its varied symptomology. 3 years, millions suffering and still everything is all over the place. you can't tell your body what to heal, it heals at a certain pace. Dry fasting is the most powerful form, but depending on your damage, it can take 5 dry fasts, it can take 10 but that includes proper refeeding and timeout.
Nutrient deficiencies also need to be addressed and that's based on your symptoms. Rush it and cause damage, you might end up worse than before. The same goes for healing. Trust the process of refeeding, and that it takes weeks to rebuild the deficit caused by extended dry fasting. Everyone wants results now, and that's why the pharma industry is so popular.
Long covid caused me PTSD when it came to running. I would have rather jumped out of an airplane than go running. Now I'm back to it. If that's not proof that dry fasting is the right path, I don't know what is. I am more energetic and happy than I was pre-covid. It's not a placebo or comparison effect. There are so few truly healed long haulers that I believe it's rarer than finding a dry faster (debatable).
I believe that long haul is more metabolic pathway damage than something like Lyme's which has persistent hidden virus/bacteria. If I'm wrong then dry fasting is still the best cure, but it may require even more extended fasting and a slight tweak to supplementation focused on biofilm disruption.
As I continue to write this Healing Long Covid journey article, I realize most of you have probably heard of these theories. At least some of them. They're not well-kept secrets, yet you have not been able to fix your long covid. Either you're brain fogged to the maximum and can't coherently keep two ideas in your head at one time, you're too scared to try some of the more extreme therapies, or you're just not connecting the dots.
Sometimes with long covid, you need someone to take your hand and pull you in the right direction. The problem right now is that the right direction could be any which way. If anyone tells you that this food or that drug will cure you, run the other way.
Your deficiencies might not even be possible to fix without fixing underlying issues like gastrointestinal problems, leaky gut, inflammation, damaged organs, damaged metabolic pathways, persistent viral infections, parasite infections, bacterial infections, and micro clots.
You're stuck in a loop you can't break out of because a few gears are broken. You can't keep dumping magnesium into the system and expect it to go where you need it if the gears are not working in parts B, D, and F. In fact, you may actually cause damage instead.
Fasting works on every single cell in your body, and that includes repairing organs, the digestive system, and metabolic pathways. Dry fasting does this 3x faster, and don't forget 'deeper'. There are some autophagic processes that don't get activated with water fasting, because the body can only do so under the most intense ketosis, and under a hyperosmotic state.
Most scientific studies focus on hyperosmolar hyperglycemic states, which are very bad. Dry fasting creates the polar opposite. Hyperosmolar hypoglycemic fasting states. Read my story to really open your eyes and bathe in the AHA moments as I dive deep and explain the progression from the Alpha strain, to the Delta, to the Omicron.
Let me hold your hand as we traverse this path and I convince you that the first step to truly healing this dreadful disease and its downstream effects is dry fasting.
People will try to sell you all sorts of supplements and ideas, miracle powders, and potions. You don't need any of that.
Your body will do it for you, but you may need a guide to help you along the way. I sure made a bunch of mistakes, but I documented everything, retraced steps, tested new theories, healed my illnesses, and learned a lot. There are pitfalls you can fall into. Dry fasting is not void of dangers. In fact, it's quite dangerous if done incorrectly.
Over the last two years, I've seen people be reckless and hurt themselves, and I've seen people spin their wheels - stuck in the mud and not getting anywhere. Set up a one-on-one call with me to talk about this and possible strategies.
I promise to provide you with enough information on this site to not require any form of coaching, but if you don't want to go through the rigorous hassle, let me guide you through the puddles, holes, and mazes of near-perfect dry fasting. Even if you don't believe I can help you and your special depressive case of long haul, at least you'll gain someone to talk to that has gone through exactly what you're going through and passed it with flying colors. It's worth a shot and I want nothing but your good health. Good luck on your dry fasting journey! Now let's start this story.
Yannick Wolfe
Healing Journey Part 1
Cue January when Covid starts spreading from Wuhan in China. Everything is still calm and everyone is still allowed to travel, almost encouraged even, as the Chinese flee their country and many land in Canada. I was running my customer-facing businesses at the time and had a worrying feeling that things were going to change for the worse.
I was one of the only people scrolling through Reddit and seeing the people fainting in the streets, and censored videos coming out of China. I even joked about shorting the stock market ;)
I'd have to say that around January/February of 2020 I was out with friends at a brunch. About 10 of us. One person had a career flying around for Air Canada, and she had the sniffles that day. Believe it or not, everyone got sick a few days after.
When I say everyone got sick, I mean that flu-like symptoms swept the whole friend group and everyone in the near vicinity. Looking back it was similar to a zombie pathogenic outbreak. At the time, we didn't think much of it. Imagine a slightly more severe headache experienced by all, with sore throats. It was more the virality of it that was surprising.
Well, to no surprise, over the coming months, it would make complete sense that covid swept through the countries extremely quickly, while no government took any precautions to shut down travel, almost like they were encouraging the spread.
Fast forward a few weeks I'm running a lot at this time while still shaking off the illness. A part of me believed that by continuing to run, I could burn off the remainder of the fever. Of course, it's natural to think of raising your body temperature to finish off an infection. It's what the body does when it runs a fever. But it looks like this sort of thinking is exactly the wrong way of approaching an illness like covid that has a track record of causing post-viral illnesses.
The cytokine storm is an indication that the virus hijacks the immune system, but also replicates incredibly fast, so fast that it looks like it takes over a bunch of metabolic pathways and jams them up like a multi-car crash on the freeway. As you're intensely exercising and running, you are losing valuable electrolytes, especially magnesium.
Magnesium is important in over 300 metabolic processes in the body. Believe it or not, physical stress also depletes magnesium, the same with mental stress.
Taking into consideration that long haul covid affects different people differently and that there is a host of symptoms that can occur. It means that not everything will work for everyone, and some treatments may be better than others for your specific cascade of problems. I believe everyone should follow the FLCCC. You can find them by typing in flccc.net
There's a reason a lot of people see benefits from being able to calm the sympathetic system and work on the vagus nerve system. So what does heavy exercise usually do? It creates lactic acid or lactate. This is an acid that causes pain when in abundance and makes you feel sore. The mitochondria are able to convert this acid into pyruvate, one of the steps to creating energy in the body. Pyruvate is part of the Krebs cycle.
Well, it looks like PEM and fatigue go hand in hand with lactic acid, meaning that long haulers are also suffering from mitochondrial dysfunction. In the second part of the story, I go much deeper into the NAD+ and kynurenine pathways which I believe are one of the most important parts of healing when it comes to supplementation.
I now believe that long haul mainly affects people deficient in certain nutrients or vitamins, or pre-existing conditions. It’s a bit of a far reach, imagining that topping up on magnesium or potassium could have prevented long haul and saved millions of people. But I believe there’s something there.
There’s a reason long-haul support groups have a high proportion of very athletic runners and weightlifters. It would be interesting to know if sweating a lot brings up some electrolyte deficiencies that if not addressed, make you more prone to having complications.
We'll talk about this more later. So there's definitely a correlation between very athletic people, stressed people, type A overachievers, and metabolically sick people getting long haul.
There are three groups of individuals who seem to be more susceptible:
- Those with high oxidative stress or compromised antioxidant systems
- Those with a tendency towards an overactive immune system - conditions like allergies, IBS, etc., often associated with Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS)
- Those with cortisol issues, often linked to chronic stress
As the days' roll by, I am slowly getting weaker and weaker. It's hard to notice the progress daily, but one day I tell my wife, something is not right. I am sweating less, and getting more tired on my runs.
What should have been me setting new records or at least keeping pace, instead turned into slower times, less enjoyment, and feelings of deterioration mentally and physically? I still could not make the connection. I started supplementing electrolytes and trying to eat healthier, but nothing was working. I remember starting a daily protocol of eating raw garlic, making onion extract, and trying to eat only whole foods while avoiding high-glycemic foods.
I slowly start to connect the dots and start considering that covid may be responsible for what is going on.
Oh yeah, before I forget... I lose the ability to drink coffee without extreme side effects of fatigue, brain fog, and gut pain.
Coffee and LC
Glutamatergic. Glutamate. Acetylcholine receptors. The sympathetic nervous system link. This further confirms why rest, meditation, and work on the parasympathetic seem to help so many people.
It's the polar opposite of the effects long covid and acute covid caused on our bodies. Avoid caffeine and other GABA inhibitors. There are a few alternatives that both target theobromine and l-theanine. Green tea is always preferred to coffee for long haulers. Keep in mind that GABA supplements do not usually cross the blood-brain barrier.
Cue water fasting. As a 12 year water faster at the time, I never worried about my physical health, since I was always looking and feeling younger than my friends. I was setting new records, I was opening new businesses, buying houses, and living life.
I always knew in the back of my mind that there wasn't a disease that I was scared about because I had my ace up my sleeve, fasting.
Fasting was my go-to panacea to keep my body healthy and metabolic processes working. I felt invincible. It's important to remember that you can be very healthy and still succumb to this virus. Its exact mechanisms of action are still unknown, so we can't be certain what exactly to do to avoid it. So now that this mysterious disease was wreaking havoc on my body, I decided that it was time to get back on the fasting horse, and fast this illness away.
Now looking back at it, I start to realize that there's a good chance that I didn't reach ER-level damage mainly thanks to the water fasting. However, this isn't to say that I didn't have emergency-type situations. But I knew that going to the ER most likely would not help, due to all the anecdotal experiences I was collecting from other long haulers.
I was always skeptical of doctors and their knowledge. We all know that they're taught very straight and narrow medical information, and veering off course is not their specialty. Needless to say, doctors are baffled by long covid, and their advice on the topic usually leads to depression in the patient ("It's all in your head, bro").
I was doing 3-5 day water fasts. They were extremely hard. The exhaustion was crippling, and because my mitochondria were already suffering, because my metabolic pathways weren't producing, and because food seemed like the only way for me to get off the couch and take the dog for a walk, I just could not bring myself to fast for extended periods of time.
My migraines were slowly growing too. I remember doing a 7-day water fast and almost curing my migraines. I knew something was up, and that no supplements could help me with my headaches, except fasting. There was some sort of metabolic process disruption that was causing the migraines. I had healed a little bit of it. Why did I think this, and why it makes sense looking back?
Out of the hundreds of supplements I took over the long haul journey, one of them actually played a very important role in eliminating migraines, at least temporarily. Believe it or not, it wasn't aspirin or Tylenol, they had almost no effect on the headaches (very counterintuitive), so it didn't have much to do with blood clots or inflammation in the brain at the time.
I mean it's possible that it had a compounding effect, but if that were the main cause then it should have been handled with anti-inflammatory medication. Instead, I was following research that was showing some promise in using butyrate to alleviate symptoms in long haulers.
At the time, I didn't know what butyrate was, but I still ended up buying the expensive supplement. It was the Genestra brand, Butyrate Complex. When I was taking it, my migraines disappeared. I didn't dig in deeper, I was just very happy. My demeanor changed instantly. not having to deal with pervasive non-stop throbbing in the head can really elevate your mood. This was all I needed to push for that 7-day water fast. Afterward, I didn't have to keep taking the Butyrate complex (even though I nearly finished the bottle in record time).
Looking back, with the knowledge and deep dives I have performed on butyrate, thanks to both the dry fasting club and the carnivore diet, I'm aware that it is one of the main short-chain fatty acids (SCFA) produced during extended fasting. It's called hydroxybutyrate. Look it up.
So what's the connection between hydroxybutyrate and long covid?
There's no doubt that during fasting there is a cleansing of the body, including the brain. This is due to autophagy. The deeper you go you unlock more powerful forms of it. You also reach peak ketone production.
B-Hydroxybutyrate fuels the brain, something that long covid has disrupted.
Perhaps it has something to do with the mitochondria ATP production. Did you know that the brain uses almost 70% of your total ATP production? You can think of fasting as kick-starting the backup generator for the body. During this time, your body can start to repair itself. Kind of like using a generator during a blackout, while you try and fix the wiring in the basement.
You might be saying that butyrate from fiber is not the same thing, and you would be right. However, butyrate can indeed be metabolized into β-hydroxybutyrate, although this is not the primary metabolic pathway for either compound.
This metabolic pathway allows the body to utilize butyrate, a primary product of fiber fermentation in the gut, for energy production in the brain. Another point for fiber. Let's look a little deeper though.
The Power of Short Chain Fatty Acids (SCFAs)
SCFAs are pivotal to your health. While you can ingest SCFAs, most are produced when the beneficial bacteria in your gut break down fiber. Too much sugar in your diet can compromise these beneficial bacteria, making way for sugar-loving species that release the inflammatory toxin LPS. Excessive dietary fat can also decrease the population of SCFA-producing bacteria.
SCFAs are incredibly beneficial for several reasons. They:
- Boost the number of mitochondria in your body, enhancing energy supply and muscle production
- Serve as the preferred energy source for all gut cells
- Exhibit strong anti-inflammatory properties
- Help reduce leaky gut
- Enhance mucus production, which protects the gut and provides a habitat for beneficial bacteria
The benefits of SCFAs extend to resolving health issues like inflammatory bowel disease, cancer, diabetes, weight gain, and depression.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8661373
Are you starting to see that there is more to all of this than just vegan vs carnivore? Both diets claim to be the best, but I really don't like to subscribe to one school of thought.
Like with healing long covid, it's important to connect the dots, find things that work, and mix and match to find the best solutions. I mean what if CoQ10 metabolic pathways are being destroyed by acute covid, just like how prolonged use of pharmaceutical statins can affect CoQ10 activation pathways? If that's the case, then something like chlorophyll and vitamin D may be needed to reactivate it. If that's true, then carnivore dieters are out of luck. (I still believe aspects of the carnivore diet are optimal for being strong and fit).
Michael Greger M.D. FACLM
Long Covid and Gut Microbiome
When it comes to gut health, there are three primary issues to be aware of:
- Dysbiosis: This refers to an imbalance in your gut's microbiome, where there's an excess of harmful bacteria and/or a deficiency of beneficial ones.
- Increased intestinal permeability (also known as "leaky gut"): Your gut lining is incredibly thin, just one cell thick, in fact. This lining is responsible for controlling what enters your bloodstream through tight junctions. However, when these junctions falter, unwanted substances like toxins and debris can slip through, triggering immune responses.
- Inflammation: This is a result of the immune response that can wreak havoc on the gut's protective layers, including mucus. If left unchecked, this inflammation can spread beyond the gut, affecting other organs and even the brain, often leading to a sensation commonly known as "brain fog".
To maintain the balance between these three factors, we need to focus on the microbiome, the small intestine, and bile.
We know that covid can affect the gut microbiome as one of the most popular symptoms include IBS-like pain in the gut that is accompanied by digestive issues. Eating meals causes mast cell activation, and digesting different types of foods may throw you into a state of relapse, fatigue, and malaise.
The gut needs to be healed, and unfortunately, so many people know this but their only solution is to buy more probiotics. This is not the correct solution as it doesn't address the absorption issues, leaky gut, and already colonized and contaminated microbiome.
Healing Journey Continued Part 2
I get hit with brain fog. Almost lose my job. Talk about derealization. I start doing 3-5 day water fasts once a month, but it is excruciatingly painful.
Although symptoms flare up after eating, I still maintain energy and have less mental stress while eating. While water fasting, the side effects are massive. Looking back this seems to be because of the dysregulation of pancreatic function and sugar metabolism, neurotransmitter deficiencies, and mineral/vitamin deficiencies. It's no wonder that fasting feels harder when in the throes of long covid, and probably similar to lymes disease and other post-viral diseases.
When you start dry fasting more often, feelings and thoughts like "Is it dangerous to dry fast so much?" and "Will I get vitamin deficient?" are very common. "How much weight can I lose before it's too dangerous?" is another one.
Weight Gain and Weight Loss during a dry fast
There are a lot of theories here, and different people approach it differently. No matter what, it's a common worry for most dry fasters. Especially early on in your dry fasting journey. If you have a hard time gaining weight, or you are starting from low weight, it's understandable that you will be worried.
You'll notice it goes into conservation mode more efficiently, and you'll lose fewer lbs per day. This means you have to make sure you also drop your daily exercise and movement accordingly. Fat catabolism is what fuels your metabolic water. Fat also stores minerals and energy.
What about vitamin deficiency?
People are scared that they’ll get vitamin deficient and worsen during a fast, but It’s also important to remember that fat-soluble vitamins can be stored and released from adipose tissue or the liver, making them available during fasting as fat is used up.
So you don’t have to worry about supplementing during a dry fast, as long as you have enough fat reserves.
The saying, what doesn’t kill me, makes me stronger is directly correlated to human hormetic effects.
We gain health benefits through exposing our bodies to exercise, heat, and cold. Of course, we will gain benefits from the stressors brought upon by lack of food. But let’s step it up and gain benefits from a new stressor; lack of water.
Ivermectin theory
Right before I tried ivermectin, I got my hands on some organic pine needle tea. It was being touted as a spike protein binder. Well, let me tell you, at least for me, it was a load of bullshit.
Pine needle tea did nothing except maybe cause me some allergic reactions. I'm a little allergic to ragweed, and therefore pine needle tea is just a bunch of hot water, some vitamin C, and allergies.
So pine needle tea did not help, but eventually, I got my hands on Ivermectin. This was a game changer, and I attribute a lot of help to this drug.
Wait Ivermectin? Like for horses? (insert funny meme from Idiocracy: "Water? Like from the toilet?")"
Did it help, or did it just immunomodulate and help bring some balance back? Did it simply fix some mechanisms or blunt them and allow some mineral and vitamin stores to replenish at least slightly? This would make a lot of sense if you take the immunomodulatory effects into consideration.
Maybe it lowers glutamate and acetylcholine neurotransmitters, which calm the nervous system down. With a calmed nervous system, maybe other pathways are freed to upregulate the parasympathetic nervous system and help your body heal. No doubt there are many potential beneficial pathways the molecule opens up, and there's a reason there's so much talk about it.
Asiya Kamber Zaidi
Treatment of wild-type mice, but not of FXR-null mice, with ivermectin decreases serum glucose and cholesterol levels, suggesting that ivermectin regulates metabolism through FXR. Our results establish FXR as the first mammalian protein targeted by ivermectin with high selectivity.
Ivermectin also has an unknown mechanism of action that greatly helps with blood glucose. We already know that diabetes is a comorbidity for covid and that the virus can utilize sugar to enter your cells more easily.
Less blood glucose = better outcomes for covid and all other illnesses. This is also why fasting is so powerful. Maybe this is an additional factor that adds to why Ivermectin can be a game changer. It got rid of my derealization and brain fog, so it definitely does something in the brain to set you back on the right path.
Ivermectin is the world's best and safest drug when it comes to most parasites. It was developed as a treatment for a parasite that causes river blindness. It won a Nobel prize.
In Africa, it's very common to take a 12mg ivermectin tablet every single month as a parasite precaution.
It's not a secret that humans are parasitic reservoirs.
Some ride along, while others actively hurt our bodies. Lowering the parasitic load will most definitely boost your body's immune system and allow it to focus on other parts of the body, in this case - long covid damage.
Ivermectin is a GABA receptor agonist. I believe this is one of its hidden powers, especially for wild-activating neurotransmitters in the acetylcholine and glutamate pathways that overexcite the neurons and cause damage.
This, I believe is one of the many mechanisms that cause quick mental deterioration for long covid patients. Ivermectin is showing to be quite a powerful punch to a lot of the symptomatology.
One of the most popular aspects of ivermectin has been the idea that it binds to the ace2 receptors and thereby inhibits the virus from invading human cells. I'm sure you've all heard of this one. It's inconclusive, but there are some mechanisms that promote this theory.
The ivermectin docking site we identified, between the viral spike and the ACE2 receptor, may interfere with the attachment of the spike to the human cell membrane. Our observation is consistent with the findings of Caly et al. and Patel et al.
Steven Lehrer
The FLCCC puts ivermectin at the forefront of all of their covid protocols. I've been following the FLCCC since a few months into the pandemic. The amount of censorship and vitriol pushed against doctors who were doing their best to help people, was sickening.
It all started with going to our friend's house for dinner and for the kids to play together. A play date. We had some beers and were enjoying ourselves.
We found out that our friend's family was just vaccinated 2-3 days earlier and that they were tired but felt fine. They admitted that the day after the vaccination they were extremely sick for about 24 hours and chalked it up to the immune system ramping up.
However, my wife, son, and myself were not vaccinated at that time and went home feeling a little off. The next day we were all feeling tired like we were hit by a truck.
My son was not as energetic as always, and we both noticed it. My wife felt flu-like even though there were not many symptoms, and I had a pounding headache and body aches. We knew something had occurred while we were at our friend's house. The question remains.
Was the vaccine shedding to the point that we were inoculated with it as well, or did it shed spike protein that affected us?
Were we infected with an active version of the Delta virus or whatever virus was mimicked in the shot?
The answer is not clear and I don't think we'll ever truly know. My wife and son ended up completely fine, but for me, the descent into version 2 of long covid began.
The triple clot-busting micro clot theory
It's quite clear that for many people suffering from long covid, included side effects are micro clots. These clots are not normal blood clots, because regular blood scans do not identify them.
I remember the first days of people panicking and telling others that they need to do a D-Dimer test for blood clots. This test measures the levels of D-dimer, a small protein fragment that is produced when a blood clot dissolves in the body.
Hospitals and doctors were not performing D-dimer tests on patients with acute or severe long covid. If asked, you were directed to ultrasounds, venography, MRI, and CT scans. All of them would come back negative for blood clots.
The D-dimer indicated that there were micro clots all throughout the body, not being picked up by the regular tests. This brought about the triple clot-busting strategy that worked for a lot of people. Even if your pathology did not include a lot of micro clots, this strategy still helped in clearing pain and blockages in the body, similar to the idea that a daily dose of baby aspirin provided a net benefit to nearly all people.
- Nattokinase is derived from fermented soybeans and dissolves fibrin, a protein involved in clotting.
- Serrapeptase, produced by a bacterium found in silkworms, also breaks down fibrin and reduces inflammation.
- Lumbrokinase, extracted from earthworms, is another fibrinolytic enzyme that degrades blood clots (lumbrokinase is the most powerful one).
- Aspirin, on the other hand, is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) that blocks the production of thromboxane A2, a substance that promotes platelet aggregation and vasoconstriction, thus preventing new clots from forming.
Some fasting coaches talk about using Serrapeptase for possible parasite biofilms, but he doesn't know what nattokinase is and therefore doesn't understand the pronounced benefits of a two-fold prong attack against biofilms or micro clots.
Serrapeptase has anti-inflammatory properties, but the fact that nattokinase specifically targets fibrin makes it a more precise option for breaking down clots. Also, nattokinase has been shown to have a longer-lasting effect on fibrinolysis, which means it could provide more extended protection against clot formation.
This is why I recommend a two-pronged attack using both Serrapeptase and Nattokinase as a preparation for a dry fast, to address micro clots, blood clots, and other clots in the blood.
I would use lumbrokinase, but it's very hard to get and super expensive, so it's not applicable to most people. My goal is to create an affordable protocol, while also providing an option for a more comprehensive expensive one. Check out the protocols here.
Don't forget that a strong gut microbiome cultured with the right probiotics and food should also be able to help. Beneficial bacteria can compete with pathogenic bacteria within biofilms, releasing antimicrobial substances, and promoting a healthy balance of microbial populations in the body.
And finally, there can be no more potent clot-busting mechanism than fasting. And the strongest version of fasting is dry fasting. The amount of ketones, and therefore lysosome activity is through the roof. You can expect clots to be broken down extremely quickly.
The reason I like to prepare for a fast with some extra clot-busting activity is to allow my body to jump through that stage much quicker and focus on deeper healing.
Hopefully more healing in the brain and nervous system. It's important to keep in mind that an active covid infection causes micro clots very often. So if you believe in the persistent viral theory, or get reinfected often, then this is something that should be continuously monitored and actively addressed. Clots stop a lot of nutrients from reaching important areas, and if it goes on for too long you will have damage and decay that will not be easy to fix.
Story part 2 Continues in the next post
In the second part, we'll focus on some concluding theories, as well as how the journey made a quick and drastic u-turn with dry fasting and addressing a few more deficiencies. You'll also read about some other success stories.