Many individuals with lengthy COVID have tried an enormous array of dietary dietary supplements, trying to find one — or a mixture — that may assist. “Anecdotally, sufferers say a few of these dietary supplements work, however we’ve no research displaying anyone factor has been superior for all sufferers,” says UCLA Well being Lengthy COVID Program director Nisha Viswanathan, MD.

Gez Medinger, a long-hauler, agrees. “You’ll find somebody for any complement, saying, ‘This fastened me.’ There’s a listing so long as your arm, and you may spend 1000’s of {dollars} on them. Do any of them actually appear to assist persistently throughout the board? No.”

Vitamins that assist mitochondria, corresponding to carnitine, thiamine, riboflavin, magnesium, CoQ10, and alpha-lipoic acid, can assist improve mitochondrial operate and power manufacturing.

Nonetheless, Evans notes that quercetin (a bioflavonoid present in onions, inexperienced tea, apples, and berries) is necessary for immune operate. And vitamins that assist mitochondria, corresponding to carnitine, thiamine, riboflavin, magnesium, CoQ10, and alpha-lipoic acid, can assist improve mitochondrial operate and power manufacturing (see “The Care and Feeding of Your Mitochondria” to be taught extra about these “power factories” which are important to power, focus, vitality, and metabolism).

Restoring intestine well being with probiotics can be necessary and supported by analysis. (For extra on probiotics and intestine well being, see “Every thing You Must Know About Probiotics“.)

Simply as everybody can have distinctive complement wants, dietary approaches work greatest when personalised. Viswanathan has seen some sufferers enhance on an anti-inflammatory, low-histamine food regimen that limits carbs and omits meat, lactose, and alcohol.

However this extremely restrictive strategy will be troublesome to take care of over time. Working with a practical nutritionist or physician can assist somebody with lengthy COVID chart a sustainable, personalised path ahead.

This was excerpted from “How Lengthy COVID Impacts Your Potential to Train” which was revealed within the December 2022 situation of Expertise Life.