Lingering pathogens have been a big part of Chinese medicine, documented as early as 2,000 B.C. So much of the medicine operates around the interstices, ecapsulated spaces, and empirical evidence that lingering pathogens are not considered special or even rare.

If you’re doing a stack and want similar effects to my treatments, I think a nice, safe combination might be the following:. Epicatechin (~500-1,000mg daily).Natto and/or Lumbrokinase (you could take both).Reishi and/or Astragalus (~500mg daily).

Though both Epicatechin and EGCG are mast cell stabilizing, EGCG has been more thoroughly studied and is likely more effective at lower doses.

Safety.Epicatechin = extremely safe. EGCG = safe in tea form, but high-dose extracts (>800mg) risk liver strain. Always take with food. No major negative interactions between the two.

Cognition:.Epicatechin improves cognition via increased blood flow, and neuroplasticity. Easily crosses BBB. EGCG protects against neurodegeneration via antioxidant + anti-amyloid actions. In brain fog? Epicatechin shines. In Alzheimer’s risk? EGCG helps.

Metabolism:.Epicatechin improves insulin sensitivity, lowers inflammation & improves muscle glucose uptake. EGCG reduces fat absorption & supports liver metabolism. Both helpful, but EC works faster and more systemically.

Mitochondria:.Epicatechin = exercise mimetic, myostatin inhibitor. It increases PGC-1α, mitochondria, muscle endurance, and recovery. EGCG = mitochondrial protector, but doesn’t build new ones. For fatigue, epicatechin outperforms.

Endothelium:.Both increase nitric oxide, but epicatechin does it faster and more sustainably. It improves blood pressure, flow-mediated dilation, and endothelial resilience - making it ideal for POTS, fatigue, Long Covid, etc. .

Immune Modulation:.EGCG suppresses inflammation and dampens antigen-presenting cell (APC) activation (lowering IL-10, MHCII/CD86). Epicatechin reduces inflammatory cytokines (IL-6/8), but preserves immune tone - better for post-viral recovery?.

Bioavailability:.Epicatechin is more bioavailable than EGCG - better absorbed, circulates longer, and reaches muscle, brain, and endothelium more effectively. EGCG is potent but poorly absorbed unless taken with food/fats.

I think that epicatechin may be a safer and more effective catechin in treating Long Covid than EGCG. What’s the difference between epicatechin (from cocoa) and EGCG (from green tea)? Both are polyphenols, but their therapeutic effects are quite different. Here's a breakdown. .

The bill states that able bodied adults(ages 19-64) are required to work 80 hours monthly to receive Medicaid, includes spending caps that require states to pay more, prohibits gender-affirming and family planning care, and would result in 12 million losing health insurance.

Those asking AI to disagree with me(and failing) really ought to just Google it or ask any one of the 1 in 10 who lost coverage. Joe Biden officially ended the emergency declaration on April 11, 2023 allowing for pandemic-era provisions protecting Medicaid and much more to expire.

Biden kicked 23 million people off Medicaid, SNAP, and housing protections in the middle of a pandemic. Democrats are not going to stop Republicans from doing the same.

Is there a German word for the anguish one feels when someone who takes no precautions and hosts super spreaders for vulnerable communities(LGBTQ+, Elderly, etc…) posts about their rapidly declining health since 2020? I’m equally heartbroken and frustrated.

The diversity of biomedical diagnoses that fall under the umbrella of Lingering Pathogenic Illness is diagnostic. Many modern diagnoses are linked by one core issue: failure to recover after immune challenge. The etiology is where immune injury and propensity to injure converge.

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When you're use to differentiating dozens of different kinds of disabling forms of exhaustion due to ME and LC, it's actually kind of entertaining when you experience something like "burnout" due to writing or the like. This must be what the NIH means by "effort preference." 😂.

Even Traditional Chinese Medicine knew.herbs like Astragalus restore APC function in conditions like ME/CFS. 🔗

When APCs fail, everything else fails:.Viral debris persists.T cells exhaust.Bregs disappear.FcγRs overwhelm .