{"id":2438876,"date":"2025-02-25T11:36:24","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T11:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2438876\/"},"modified":"2025-02-25T11:36:24","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T11:36:24","slug":"extended-fasting-an-effective-intervention-for-long-covid-the-rationale-and-the-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2438876\/","title":{"rendered":"Extended Fasting: An Effective Intervention for Long Covid? | The Rationale and the Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5cD3dWuNjh4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nExtended Fasting: An Effective Intervention for Long Covid? | The Rationale and the Science<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n*Important note*<br \/>\nSocial media is abound with stories of long haulers who have crashed hard when attempting to fast. Don\u2019t be one of them: consult your doctor first if you want to try it. Or do it under medical supervision at an expert clinic (like I did).<br \/>\n*lecture over*<\/p>\n<p>In this video, the first of two (or possibly even three), I introduce the subject of extended fasting, after discovering it has made a huge positive impact on my symptoms. I discuss the various types of fasting, the rationale for why it might work, and the published science we\u2019ve got that supports it. In the next video I\u2019m going to discuss my own personal experience after two extended fasts, which symptoms have improved, which haven\u2019t, and what I think the lessons are for everyone watching.<\/p>\n<p>CHAPTERS:<\/p>\n<p>0:00 Introduction<br \/>\n1:36 Types of Fasting<br \/>\n3:23 Rationale for LC<br \/>\n5:27 Physiological Effects<br \/>\n6:13 What Does AI Think?<br \/>\n7:18 The Science<br \/>\n8:20 Conclusion<\/p>\n<p>LINKS:<br \/>\nPathomechanisms and possible interventions in myalgic encephalomyelitis\/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME\/CFS) &#8211; [source of diagram used.] Fluge, Tronstad &#038; Mella.<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.jci.org\/articles\/view\/150377<\/p>\n<p>Measurement of circulating viral antigens post-SARS-CoV-2 infection in a multicohort study. [The one with the 43% and 21%], Swank et al:<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2024\/10\/241009122346.htm<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.clinicalmicrobiologyandinfection.com\/article\/S1198-743X(24)00432-4\/abstract<\/p>\n<p>Improvements during long-term fasting in patients with long COVID \u2013 a case series and literature review. Grundler et al:<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/journals\/nutrition\/articles\/10.3389\/fnut.2023.1195270\/full<\/p>\n<p>FastCoV: Study on the potential benefits of fasting for long Covid treatment:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"ggpGDDd3xy\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/lcsb-en\/research-projects\/fastcov\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FastCoV: Study on the potential benefits of fasting for long Covid treatment<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;FastCoV: Study on the potential benefits of fasting for long Covid treatment&#8221; &#8212; LCSB EN\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/lcsb-en\/research-projects\/fastcov\/embed\/#?secret=UwS1VK0kfI#?secret=ggpGDDd3xy\" data-secret=\"ggpGDDd3xy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Exploring autophagy in treating SARS-CoV-2 spike protein-related pathology, Halma, Marik and Saleeby:<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S2666396124000074<\/p>\n<p>VIDEOS:<br \/>\nHow Intermittent Fasting Might Help Dysautonomia and MCAS:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Complex Interaction Between MCAS &amp; Dysautonomia | How To Solve Your Puzzle\" width=\"770\" height=\"433\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d2oxRibcx9w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Latest Research on Mitochondrial Dysfunction, with Prof Klaus Wirth:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Latest Research on Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Long Covid &amp; ME\/CFS | With Prof. Klaus Wirth\" width=\"770\" height=\"433\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9gwMw69XCP0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s absolutely tonnes of research on fasting and chronic inflammatory conditions &#8211; just google anything you like, with &#8216;scholarly article&#8217; on the end of the search and you&#8217;ll find swamps of the stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extended Fasting: An Effective Intervention for Long Covid? | The Rationale and the Science *Important note* S<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2438877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[1541],"class_list":{"0":"post-2438876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-japan","8":"tag-1541"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2438876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2438877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2438876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2438876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2438876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}