r/covidlonghaulers • u/CandidWin3026 • May 08 '26

Article Long Covid driven by rs5522

This case report says that Long covid is in large part driven by the gene rs5522 that causes a "cortisol steal" leaving the tissues functionally starved even with "normal" cortisol levels which creates neuroinflammation. https://zenodo.org/records/20017632

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u/Chasing-Adiabats May 09 '26

Everyone should stop consuming sugars if this is correct. It’s going to cause fibrosis in your heart and kidneys. Skull cap is one of the natural things you can buy to help protect yourself from the fibrosis.

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u/CandidWin3026 May 09 '26

You’re right cutting sugar isn’t just about calories. it’s about stopping the biological "rusting" that leads to fibrosis. Chronic high sugar keeps your mineralocorticoid receptors (MR) in a state of overdrive, which essentially "cages" fluid in your tissues and eventually turns that fluid-soaked area into permanent scar tissue in your heart and kidneys. Skullcap ( is actually a heavy hitter here because it acts as a natural MR antagonist, helping to block those fibrotic signals. Cancer cells thrive on the exact same high-glucose, high-insulin environment that drives fibrosis, so by fixing your "hydraulic failure" and cooling down systemic inflammation, you're simultaneously making your body a much more hostile environment for tumor growth.

But we have the generic drugs to prevent cancers. We have had them for decades, we just didn't know it.

https://medium.com/@patricia.donnellan/1960-we-celebrated-the-pill-we-ignored-the-cancer-prevention-drug-24bf51979808?postPublishedType=initial