The Welcome back to another episode of the podcast.

I'm your host, Evan Brand.

I'm a certified functional medicine practitioner and a functional nutritional therapy practitioner.

Let's talk about long COVID.

This is the podcast you've

guys been asking about. I've had questions and direct messages on Instagram for literally two

years on the subject. And really, I didn't cover this because I didn't know enough about it yet.

And I don't think anyone did. When you're exposed to a bio weapon and there's bio warfare going on,

you got to give it time to develop so you can learn what the heck's actually happening in regards

to supporting the ACE2 receptor and the microbiome and boosting mitochondrial function, right?

So there's a lot of different mechanisms to this disease and I think we're still gonna learn more.

So I might look back at this episode in a year and go, oh my God, I thought I knew something then.

I didn't know anything compared to what I do now.

However, the reality is the body can only dysfunction in so many ways.

Everyone has mitochondria. Everyone has a heart.

Everyone has a gut.

So there are some generalities that we can talk about.

Now, long COVID, some people say this is a myth. Some people say

this is all in your head. Some people say this is just a stress response. I don't get caught up in that.

All I do is I sit back and I watch the emails come in. I listen to the clients who book consultations and they tell me, look, I was sick before COVID and now I'm even more sick.

I've never fully recovered. Now, whether this

is permanent loss of smell, people that have literally had no smell come back in two years,

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