Guillaume Caunegre On the Effects of Long-COVID
Guillaume Caunegre discusses the effects of COVID and how the virus can affect the body and mind for an extended period. He delves into the importance of cleansing the body, going on an anti-inflammatory diet, hydrating, and taking supplements to heal and recharge as your body takes on day-to-day life, especially when affected by the virus.
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Quotes:
COVID can still be found in the body months after contraction in organs, muscles, blood vessels mostly, and in the brain. -Guillaume Caunegre
The World Health Organization has found that at least 65 million people in the world suffer from severe long COVID. This doesn’t include people with milder long COVID. -Guillaume Caunegre
Symptoms of COVID increase in gravity each time a person catches the virus, so people need to be careful not to catch it again because it’s still out there. -Guillaume Caunegre
Show Notes:
Guillaume Caunegre: Long COVID means that you still have symptoms after COVID for a few weeks or a few months after some people have had it for two years or three years.
Guillaume Caunegre: It's important that people are reminded that they still have to be extremely careful not to catch it again because it's still out there.
Guillaume Caunegre: The World Health Organization has found that at least 65 million people in the world suffer from severe long COVID, which means that you can probably multiply this number by 5 or 6.
Guillaume Caunegre: I've had very good nonprofessional athletes who could be professional, by the way they train and who cannot even go out for 20 minutes of exercise without being totally exhausted. And having this brain fog that will just linger on from morning to evening and get worse with exercise.
Guillaume Caunegre: People are so disconnected from what they feel, it's extremely hard for them to decide if they are well or not.
Guillaume Caunegre: We have basically two kinds of tissue and textures and colors in the brain. We have the gray matter and the white matter. The white matter will actually connect and pass on information to the gray matter that can do the job of just about everything the brain does. It's like a bridge.
Guillaume Caunegre: If you have a weak immunity for so many reasons, because of your diet, because of previous ailments, because you already have inflammatory diseases, your immune system is already busy fighting something like you just had a tattoo. Your immune system will be busy trying to get rid of that ink for years.
Guillaume Caunegre: We're talking about people who still have symptoms after COVID. Luckily enough, most of the population who's been affected has gone altogether better. Although if they really look inside and listen to their body, they will realize that some things are not as they used to be.
Guillaume Caunegre: I never had COVID and I know I never had it because I've been testing for two and a half years, twice weekly now.
Guillaume Caunegre: We do a lot of home tests now and there are 50 to 70% reliable. So this false positive, but there's also some false negatives.
Guillaume Caunegre: What we know is that when you're sick, you have been affected on your lungs. This is why we had respiratory distress and the hospitals were full of patients potentially dying if they were not helped with oxygen and getting and taking care of.
Guillaume Caunegre: It's funny because I had some of those symptoms after my second vaccine. It took me about four months to recuperate. And you know, I do a lot of sports. I do a lot of cardiovascular activity. But I was definitely affected. In the end, it came back to normal, but it took months.
Guillaume Caunegre: The liver is the most important organ in the body. It has nine major functions and have roughly 11 vital functions.
Guillaume Caunegre: I just started to try and understand what was going on with this virus, getting a lot of information. Unfortunately, in the beginning we had misinformation. You know, there was things coming out. In the end, they weren't totally true, not because of the research, but because it was complicated.
Guillaume Caunegre: the number one remedy in diet is the strict paleo diet. Paleo diet takes out all the carbs and all the sugars out of your food.
Guillaume Caunegre: Your brain needs 20% of the water you intake every day for your whole body. You can increase that by 30% when it's repairing. So people who don't drink enough or who do not hydrate enough. And I need to get on this because this is so important. You can have somebody drinking two gallons of water a day and still not be hydrated.
Guillaume Caunegre: Magnesium is indispensable for nervous system cellular function. It helps the flow of information from the nerves to order what the rest of the body needs to do to tell your hormones to produce, to tell your muscles to relax, to tell your organs to activate, or deactivate and so on. Magnesium is so important for your brain and your nerves, so you have to take between 300mg and 500mg of marine sourced magnesium twice a day.
Guillaume Caunegre: we're talking about long COVID people, people who suffer after COVID of ailments that are changing their lives, brain symptoms, physical symptoms. You need to go on 4000 mg of omega three fish oils twice or three times a day. You need to take omega three fish oils 4000 mg twice or three times a day, but at least morning and evening for one month.
Guillaume Caunegre: It's actually the French osteopath who invented visceral osteopathy, and they got basically their data and inspiration from a French doctor in the 1900s who wrote so much about organ palpation and organ function.
Guillaume Caunegre: In our work as osteopaths, we just have clinical testing. We talk, we test, we look at the changes, whether it's palpation, mobility testing or the patient telling us and reporting to us.
Guillaume Caunegre: the most important thing you have to understand that depression is either biological so you're prone genetically to depression or it's reactive, which means that you lose your job, you lose your marriage, you lose somebody, you become depressed. That's being reactive.