Long-Haul COVID: Symptoms, Latest Research, Testing, and Treatment with Dr. Nik Hedberg: Episode Rerun
The Root Cause Medicine Podcast
Kate Kresge
4.8 • 581 Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of The Root Cause Medicine Podcast, we dive into the latest research and practices treating patients with long COVID. They dive into: What Is Long-Haul COVID? Long COVID Signs and Symptoms Long COVID Predispositions Recovering From Long COVID Dr. Nik Hedberg’s Practical Advice Dr. Nikolas Hedberg is the Founder and CEO of the Hedberg Institute and has been practicing functional medicine for twenty years. He authored The Complete Thyroid Health and Diet Guide, has written and published numerous functional medicine articles and has lectured at major universities and associations nationwide. Dr. Hedberg is also the Chief Medical Officer at Moss Nutrition Products, Founder of the Immune Restoration Center, and host of the Functional Medicine Research podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the Root Cause Medicine podcast. |
| 0:03.1 | Fatigue is really the number one symptom across the board, just ongoing fatigue. |
| 0:08.0 | And then brain fog is another one, which is just inflammation of the brain. |
| 0:13.1 | Pain tends to increase in these patients. |
| 0:16.3 | So they'll have ongoing pain syndromes. |
| 0:18.2 | They'll have brain issues like memory, inability to recall, |
| 0:24.5 | impaired learning, things like that. And then they might have some cardiovascular issues because |
| 0:29.1 | the heart's inflamed. So there might be some heart arrhythmias, pots, which is just basically |
| 0:35.2 | a problem with the heart from lying down to standing. |
| 0:39.9 | Skin issues, autoimmunity, loss of muscle mass. |
| 0:45.0 | There's many men over 60 symptoms now. |
| 0:48.1 | Some people will just have one ongoing symptom for a long time. |
| 0:52.6 | They might just be more tired for a year or longer. I mean, |
| 0:56.6 | that's considered long COVID. A lot of the women have their menstrual cycles have just completely flipped, |
| 1:03.1 | completely changed. And sleep issues are also another big one. Some patients might just have ongoing |
| 1:10.1 | sleep issues and they might just chalk it up |
| 1:12.0 | to the daily stresses of life and things like that. So it's definitely not something to overlook, |
| 1:17.8 | even if you just have one symptom that's ongoing. Hello, hello. I'm your host, Dr. Carrie Jones. |
| 1:25.2 | And today I talk with Dr. Nick Headberg all about the latest research |
| 1:30.2 | and what he's personally seen in practice treating patients with long COVID. It turns out |
| 1:35.9 | you can develop long COVID from either the virus itself or from the vaccine. Dr. Nick and I dive |
| 1:43.1 | into the symptoms, latest literature, testing, and |
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