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Dr. Ruscio Radio, DC: Health, Nutrition and Functional Healthcare

Long Covid Natural Treatment Strategies with Dr. Hedberg

Dr. Ruscio Radio, DC: Health, Nutrition and Functional Healthcare

Dr. Michael Ruscio, DC

Medical, Health, Functionalmedicine, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.5774 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

For many years, Dr. Hedberg has been a speaker in the functional medicine arena, presenting on autoimmune disease and the connection between infections and chronic illness. In this podcast, he speaks about why long COVID affects some more than others and what nutritional, herbal, and lifestyle interventions can help improve symptoms. Listen in to hear more.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Dr. Rousho Radio, providing practical and science-based solutions to feeling your best.

0:15.4

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0:22.9

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0:30.6

The following discussion is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose or

0:36.1

treat any disease. Please do not apply any of this information

0:39.6

without first speaking with your doctor. Now, let's head to the show. Hey guys, today I spoke with

0:46.0

Dr. Nick Headberg on natural treatments for long COVID. And this was a fantastic conversation.

0:54.6

The good news here is that so much of the fundamentals from a diet, lifestyle, gut health,

1:01.6

and herbal and nutritional supplement perspective are becoming progressively documented to improve long COVID.

1:14.3

So we go through this and Nick does a great job of outlining paper by paper,

1:21.1

various interventions that can help with long COVID.

1:24.9

So we start off with some of the immunology that underlies long COVID,

1:29.7

and he gives a breakdown of the couple, or really the main suite of factors, one of which

1:37.2

is gut dysbiosis, which underlies long COVID. We talk about muscle health comes up yet again and its impact on long

1:48.7

COVID muscle health and muscle mass. Got dysbiosis as I mentioned a moment ago, genetics and

1:55.7

long COVID, vagus nerve and how this ties in with things like meditation and limbic retraining,

2:04.6

low histamine dieting, and what to consider there,

2:08.7

microcirculation or circulation in general,

2:11.1

and what can be done from both a diet lifestyle and a supplemental perspective for that,

2:17.1

the rule of adaptogens, the role of some

2:20.0

neuro-antinflammatory compounds, and we also go into sleep and a few items regarding testing

2:29.3

that's being looked at in the research. Again, the real nice thing about what Nick outlines is long COVID does not

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