Ashok Gupta explains that long COVID may stem from lung scarring in some cases, but he argues many sufferers have a brain-driven condition where the immune and nervous systems get stuck in survival mode, causing chronic inflammation. His program uses neuroplasticity techniques to help rebalance these systems.
Now, there may be many reasons why there are long term effects. Some patients may have actual scarring in the lungs as the root cause. However, based on a medical paper I published, we hypothesized that the majority may be experiencing what we call neuroimmune conditioned syndromes. Now this is where the brain and the body go into extreme survival mode following the traumatic experience of having COVID 19 the brain may not switch off aspects of the immune response or the nervous system response, which can then cause chronic symptoms and excess inflammation throughout the body. We here at the Gupta Program have been supporting patients with chronic conditions for over 20 years and we aim to help patients rebalance their nervous systems and their immune systems using the principles of neuroplasticity and holistic health practices.
