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To avoid wasting precious time. If left untreated, post-covid may make person's life miserable, full of pain, suffering, chronic fatigue, and inability to work.

There is no standard treatment yet, but things that treat beriberi and pellagra do seem to work for post-covid as well, to some degree.

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Covid was pretty easy but uncomfortable for me. Post-Covid has not been so..

I have somewhat severe post-Covid symptoms. I took a look at the Beriberi symptoms list. I have every single symptom of both wet and dry beriberi.

Time for a Thiamine blood test.

There is a gotcha: quantitative thiamine tests are false negative most of the times. But other blood markers can be revealing: homocysteine, HOMA-IR, blood pH, lactic acid. And it's not always exclusively a thiamine, for some people it's anemia, B3, or B12 deficiencies, or a combination of those.

what are some good post-covid treatments? I seem to be having symptoms of depression after covid. WebMD says a thiamine-rich diet is good to treat beri beri, but not sure if "eating better" can help me out here.

Officially? None.

See https://x.com/erictopol/status/1689303073494335488

When the condition enters a pathological state, eating better is not enough to overcome it. There are no official treatments yet, but you can find some data from the field.

Recent research suggests "that some people with long COVID still had virus fragments lingering in their guts, long after they were no longer testing positive for the virus. Those particles, located through stool samples, might be enough to trigger the release of interferons. That could set off a chain reaction, leading to inflammation that makes it tougher for the digestive system to absorb tryptophan — an essential amino acid found in food that helps the body make serotonin. " [1]

1. https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/new-research-offers-clues-to-...

>I seem to be having symptoms of depression after covid.

Have you considered you might be depressed?

Fucoidan is the best treatment. It handles the issues in the article directly. Mark my words that people will catch on to this more and more in the coming years.

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