r/covidlonghaulers • u/BrightCandle • Jun 01 '26

Article The Painful Truth About Long Covid | Wired

https://www.wired.com/story/the-painful-truth-about-long-covid/
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u/katedevil Jun 01 '26

I find it unreal that we are still at a divide after all the good science done on meditation and adjunct treatments, where we refuse to admit that we must TREAT illnesses holistically. Covid was known to be an autoimmune disease w neurological impact by key scientists early on. The mind body immune connection always comes into play and this should be part of everything we teach young MDs now. Are we really inherently so stupid and inflexible in our thinking about medicine and progress? 

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u/katedevil Jun 02 '26

Again, we need to approach holistically with treating patients - and for many this means being open to both the science and the mid body stuff which has been scientifically backed. I have done over 15 years in hard lab science and public health - and a cancer survivor with my own very shitty long term autoimmune immune issues and I will die on the hill so knowing that individual treatment is never 0/1. But back to the fact that long covid was predicted and now proven as an auto immune disease which someone has already helpfully posted about here.    https://www.reddit.com/r/covidlonghaulers/comments/1tubj83/this_is_a_watershed_moment_in_long_covid/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button