Natural Medicine Journal Podcast

Nearly 1 in 5 adults who have had Covid currently experience symptoms of “long Covid,” according to the US government’s Household Pulse Survey. Long Covid is defined as symptoms lasting 3 months or more after first contracting SARS-CoV-2. Natural Medicine Journal Editor-in-Chief Tina Kaczor, ND, FABNO, recently discussed prevention of long Covid with 3 colleagues, each of whom has been practicing as a clinician for at least 25 years. Kaczor posed 4 important questions to these experts: 1.              What do you think the cause of long Covid is, and how is it related to other chronic fatigue syndromes? 2.              What do you do across the board for your patients for acute Covid and long Covid? 3.              Are there any certain labs that you use? 4.              And do you consider long Covid curable, or is it something people have to manage for the rest of their lives? The experts who weighed in are: ·                 Edythe Vickers, ND, LAc, a naturopathic physician and licensed