Easy Way to Cut Your Fibro Flare / Long Covid Risk in Half
Vitality101 Newsletter
Hello Reader,
As we approach autumn, it's that time of year again. Leaves changing color? Yes. Temperature cooling down a bit? Hopefully. The media and pharmaceutical industry trying to scare you to death about Covid and whatever other infections they can find? Check.
Good approaches for responding to the threat of Covid include using common sense ways to improve your immunity, and tuning out the media when they try to scare you. But here's one more critical new study you should be aware of.
About 10% of people who get Covid also develop post-viral fibromyalgia. And Covid can flare fibromyalgia if you already have it. But a new study of a thousand people in Lancet showed that the risk of getting Long Covid (and likely Fibro flares from it) can be decreased by 63% if you simply begin taking a safe and inexpensive ($10 for the whole course) medication called metformin within the first 4 days of infection.
Metformin requires a prescription, but most doctors are comfortable prescribing it. So if you call, they might be willing to okay your having the medication on hand.
For more information, and to get a link to the study you can share with your physician, along the dosage used in the study, continue reading.
Podcast: A Step-By-Step Action Plan For Recovery from Long Covid
In this two-part interview on the "Intelligent Medicine Podcast," Dr. T speaks with host Dr. Ron Hoffman about Long COVID, and Dr. T's approach of blending natural therapies with judicious use of medications to explain how recovery can be achieved.
New Blood Test for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Has 91% Accuracy
Although it's not yet available commercially, a new study out of Oxford once again shows that checking for low energy metabolism in cells is an effective way to confirm the diagnosis of chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia. Of course there are many other such tests available. Unfortunately, most doctors and insurers will ignore the test results. And simply doing the free five minute quiz at our Vitality101 website is a pretty good way to give you an idea if you might have CFS or fibromyalgia (and without the $700 testing expense!).
But this new study a bright spot. Since it comes from Oxford, it may carry a little more weight in the future.
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Jacob Teitelbaum, M.D. is one of the world's leading integrative medical authorities on fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue. He is the lead author of eight research studies on their effective treatments, and has published numerous health & wellness books, including the bestseller on fibromyalgia From Fatigued to Fantastic! and The Fatigue and Fibromyalgia Solution. Dr. Teitelbaum is one of the most frequently quoted fibromyalgia experts in the world and appears often as a guest on news and talk shows nationwide including Good Morning America, The Dr. Oz Show, Oprah & Friends, CNN, and Fox News Health.
