Ashok Gupta discusses his brain-retraining program for long Covid, which combines meditation, stress reduction, and physical exercises. Developed over 20 years, the approach relies mostly on anecdotal evidence, and Gupta calls for clinical trials to test whether it actually works.
April 15, 2021.
About 20 years.
I just get out of breath almost immediately.
While long haul symptoms like chronic fatigue, breathing problems, headaches and achy joints can go away in a few weeks or months, others persist. Regardless of whether your infection was mild or if you went to the icu.
There doesn't seem to be a fixed pattern, a shock.
Gupta runs a brain retraining program that helps patients deal with chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, a chronic pain ailment, food sensitivities, and a variety of other ailments for which there is no sure medical cure.
A lot of these conditions have many crossovers with Long haul Covid, and we see that in our clinic.
Gupta bases his treatments on retraining the brain, which he believes instinctively overreacts to any number of conditions, creating an immune response that could negatively affect the body.
If the brain catches onto something that could be dangerous, the brain errs on the side of caution.
Gupta's treatments, developed over 20 years, combines meditation, stress reduction, mental and physical exercises, and diet ex in what could be termed alternative medicine techniques. Some limited studies show promise, and many patients who can't find a medical cure for chronic symptoms, including long haul Covid symptoms, say the techniques work.
Obviously, that's anecdotal evidence, and until we do a proper clinical trial, you know what? We're not declaring that this is a definitive treatment, but we want to do the studies and prove this.
Lonnie Wong.
