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Covid-19: Comorbidities, Long-Haul Symptoms, and Immune Resilience

By Sara Gottfried MD | February 2, 2021
Sara Gottfried MD Women's Health Article |Long-haul Covid| Covid-19: Comorbidities, Long-Haul Symptoms, and Immune Resilience

Vaccines are getting distributed at increasing rates. Researchers are testing 68 vaccines in human clinical trials, 20 are the final stage of testing, and two are approved for full use according to the New York Times vaccine tracker. However, depending on your risk category and the state in which you live, it could be months…

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What to Do NOW to Feel Your Best for as Long as Po What to Do NOW to Feel Your Best for as Long as Possible! I had so much fun recording this episode of @lizmoody 's fantastic Healthier Together podcast. The point in this short clip is that your savings don’t matter if you lose your health—I love to focus first on glucose and cortisol. Description below shared from @lizmoody This episode is all about actionable, realistic advice to help you live as long as possible, and feel GOOD while doing so. We talk about: ⁣ ⁣ 1️⃣ The number one thing people get wrong about aging⁣ ⏰ The exact changes you should make in your 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s and 60s to live your longest, healthiest life⁣ 🍟 How to eat "intuitively" when your intuition doesn't work⁣ 🏋️‍♀️ The best diet and exercise for longevity⁣ 🌎 What the Blue Zones concept gets right about longevity—and what it misses⁣ 🧠 How to reduce your risk of dementia, even if you have a genetic predisposition to it⁣ 🧘‍♀️Hacks to get your cortisol and glucose in better shape⁣ 💊 Hormone supplementation in menopause and perimenopause ⁣ 🩺 What to do when your doctors don't want to give you hormone tests or don't know to interpret them⁣ 🍽 How intermittent fasting and protein restriction impact longevity⁣ 👩‍🦳 What causes wrinkles and gray hair and how to address them⁣ 🦠 The oral and gut microbiome and their impacts on aging⁣ ⁣ 🌼Practice self-care today and carve out some time to listen to the full podcast. You deserve it. Follow the link in my bio @saragottfriedmd for the podcast link #selfcaresunday #selfcaresundays #theyoungerbook #precisionmedicine #integrativemedicine #micronutrients #bioidenticalhormones #functionalnutrition #functionalmedicine #metabolicflexibility #healthspan #longevity #hormonebalance #hormoneimbalance #hormonalimbalance #hormonalbalance #thehormonecure #biohacking #foodismedicine #optimalnutrition #antiagingtips #antiagingsolution #antiagingmedicine #antiagingdoctor #antiagingtechnology #antiagingsolutions #antiagingthatworks #microbiome #intermittenfasting #bluezones
Are you above or below the line? I love this exer Are you above or below the line? I love this exercise from Conscious Leadership coach Diana Chapman. Bring to mind a recent challenge—it can be a relationship conflict, drama at work or home, a challenge with yourself, tune into something that you’re having an issue with. Imagine a simple horizontal line. Above the line, you’re in a state of trust, curiosity, and totally present. Below the line, you’re in a state of fear—clinging to an opinion, finding fault, and asking why. Ask yourself, where am I? Diana recommends setting an app to randomly ask yourself this question seven times during the day. You’re above the line when you’re open. You ask, What can I learn from this situation? Whatever story I have, at least the opposite is true, and there’s probably more than two possibilities. It’s more valuable to learn and grow than to be right. Below the line, you might feel a threat to security, control, or approval. Ego gets triggered. You may say things to yourself like “they shouldn’t be doing this.” As Diana says, regardless of where you are, let it be. We all go below the line. It’s just what happens when you’re human. There’s a lot of value in being below the line—it’s about a desire for connection and belonging. There’s content that we all need to work with but there’s also context. This exercise helps us explore context. Learn more at https://conscious.is/ #mindset #consciousleadership #abovetheline #health #mentalhealth #coach #coaching #trust #curiosity #dianachapman #performance
Are you effing tired? Burnout is up 33% in the pa Are you effing tired? Burnout is up 33% in the past year. In Functional Medicine, our approach to burnout and fatigue is very targeted. I’ll be interviewing my friend and colleague @fastingmd about burnout and why we’re so effing tired. Join us for a lively IG LIVE March 18 @ 3 pm Pacific Time. Amy Shah MD is double board certified in Internal Medicine and Allergy/Immunology. She’s a wonderful physician and tons of fun. She’s a graduate of Cornell University, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and completed residency at Harvard’s Beth Israel Hospital, and fellowship at Columbia’s Immunology Program. She has an excellent new book that will be published next week called I’M SO EFFING TIRED. Please preorder your copy now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or wherever books are sold. If you want real, honest, evidence-based tools to move forward in your health, tune in March 18 at 3 pm PT // 6 pm ET. Whether you need a few tweaks or a major overhaul, we will talk about how you can get a mental, hormonal, and inflammatory reset. We will cover: What you eat When you eat How you manage stress Favorite recipes Got questions? Pop them below and we’ll get to as many as possible. #intermittentfasting #burnout #nutrition #immunesystem #hormones #immunology #health #imsoeffingtired #amyshahmd #circadianrhythm #functionalmedicine
To finish up the series on the importance of relea To finish up the series on the importance of releasing tight spots and knots in your body, I am sharing one of my favorite poses for your hip flexors. The hip flexors are one of the most common areas where people feel tightness and pain. Hip flexors may become shortened and tightened if you work them repeatedly and unskillfully, such as by doing abdominal exercises, bicycling, squats, or simply by sitting too much. Or maybe you bought a Peloton like me and started spinning every day! The biggest and strongest hip flexor is your psoas major, which connects your low back vertebrae and femur. Your psoas is mighty and deep; some call it the “muscle of the soul.” One of my favorite yoga poses to release hip flexors is a combination of butterfly pose into bridge pose to help let go of habitual tension in the fascia. 🧘Lie on your back with soles of the feet together and knees bent outward and resting on the floor or supported with pillows. 🧘Tuck your tailbone, and lift your pelvis off the floor. This provides a posterior tilt to the pelvis, which can help lengthen your hip flexors and decompress the low back. 🧘Roll up as high as you can— it may be one inch or it may be ten inches. Continue to lift the pubic bone up toward the belly button. 🧘Slowly wind down and back up five times, inhaling up, exhaling down. This will gradually warm them, sending a signal that you’re paying attention and bringing energy and intention to the area. 🧘Now raise your pelvis into the air and hold for five rounds of breath. As your hip flexors slowly lengthen and release, you may be able to lift higher and go deeper, eventually bringing low back, middle back, and upper back off the floor. 🧘Repeat three to five times. Commit to including this in your daily routine❤️ #theyoungerbook #precisionmedicine #integrativemedicine #micronutrients #functionalmedicine #metabolichealth #metabolicflexibility #precisionmedicineprogram #precisionnutrition #marcusinstitute #autonomicflexibility #fascia #fascialfitness #fascialstretchtherapy #fascialrelease #fasciarelease #fascial #yogaeveryday #yogaeverydamnday #hipflexors #hipflexorstretch #psoas #psoasstretch #psoasrelease
It's all begins with fascia. ⠀ ⠀ In the last f It's all begins with fascia. ⠀ ⠀ In the last few posts, I have been talking about rest and recovery, vagal tone, and the importance of releasing tight, painful spots in your body.⠀ ⠀ It is helpful to know what creates restrictions in your body in the first place and that place is fascia.⠀ ⠀ Fascia is the head-to-toe continuous sheath of the body that encloses everything inside your skin, including muscles, nerves, and organs. It weaves nearly every system of the body together. Fascia connects the muscles in chains so they can move together freely as a functional unit. Ideally, fascia glides like a silky sweater over your other tissues. Healthy fascia is soft, flexible, spongy, and resilient, equipped to withstand pushing, pulling, compression, and stretching without damage.⠀ ⠀ 💪Unfortunately, muscles can get misaligned after heavy use, ligaments can develop tears, organs can develop adhesions—leading to inflammation and scar tissue that binds the fascia, like a piece of tape on a sweater keeps it from stretching appropriately with your body movements. Just as the tape limits the mobility of the sweater, the fascia gets stuck and limits mobility of your body. It hinders the body from its maximum movement. ⠀ ⠀ 🔗The fascia is a testament to the interconnectedness of the body. Muscular and skeletal limitations impact how we move, which impacts how the brain works.⠀ ⠀ If we are in pain, we might also have negative thoughts about the body and how it is or isn’t function, which continue to spiral into how we move or eat. Likewise, how we move or eat impacts how our body functions.⠀ ⠀ 💧A perfect example: over 70 percent of fascia is water. The more water you consume, the healthier your fascia is and the better equipped it to handle movement. The more dehydrated you are, the more stiff, parched, and injury-prone the fascia becomes.⠀ ⠀ Stretching is the best way to release fascial tension. I will share a couple of my favorite poses tomorrow😍
I used to think recovery meant when I wasn’t sor I used to think recovery meant when I wasn’t sore from yoga or running or weights. Or it was 24 hours after my last fitness spree. ⠀ ⠀ ➡️Turns out that I didn’t know the first thing about recovery, because it’s more about galvanizing the full arsenal of repair mechanisms in your body: stitching together microtears in your muscles, ironing out the fascia when it gets jangled, reinvigorating mitochondria so you’re brimming with energy rather than feeling worn down or burned out. Adequate recovery keeps your hormone profile in balance so that your adrenals don’t get fried and take your sex hormones and thyroid down with them.⠀ ⠀ ➡️The official definition of recovery is your ability to repair tissues damaged during exercise, rebuild muscles, provide functional restoration of the body such that you prevent injury, rejuvenate emotionally and psychologically, and feel prepared to meet or exceed performance the next time.⠀ ⠀ ➡️Recovery allows you to heal from oxidative stress, which you may or may not feel as fatigue and muscle soreness. But recovery runs deeper; in a larger sense, it’s about paying attention to the messages of your cells, your inner voice, and not letting ego run the show. My ego tells me to overexercise and under-recover, which is a recipe for injury, spasm, and weak mitochondria. Don’t let that happen to you. ⠀ ⠀ ❤️ Recovery is also about tuning into the messages your body is sending you. For me, for example, the ache in my left sacroiliac joint is a sure sign that I’m heading toward spasm and need to activate my release rituals (see last 2 posts). Learn about heart rate variability (HRV) by scrolling back a few more posts. For many fitness enthusiasts, measuring HRV is the best, easiest, and most objective measure of whether the body is ready to train— it tells you whether your nervous system is prepared for another dose.⠀ ⠀ Do you make time for recovery?
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