ロングCOVIDには最適化ではなく安定化が必要
cold plunges, red light therapy, hyperaric chambers. If you have long COVID or mystery symptoms and you’ve been trying to biohack your way out of this, I get it. I’ve done it. I’ve spent thousands and I’ve watched clients crash their systems doing the same thing. But here’s what people miss. Dave Asprey, Gary Brea, Brian Johnson, they’re focused on optimization. And your body needs stabilization. This is a whole different path. and I’ll show you what to skip and what to keep. Hello and welcome. I’m Carrie Bailey, your functional nutritionist, and I help you figure out why you feel terrible when doctors can’t. I tell you how your body works so that you can truly heal. I keep things real, practical, and root cause focused. And if you’ve tried everything and you still feel stuck, stick with me. Before we get into the eight bio hacks, here is what people miss. When you have long COVID or neurological symptoms, your nervous system is already running hot. Disotinomia, dizziness, fatigue, and that wired but tired feeling tell you that your body is in a stress state. Most biohacks spike adrenaline, and that works when you’re strong, but it backfires when you’re symptomatic. Some of these things can feel good in the moment and the cold shock can feel energizing. The rush can feel like progress. It’s the same idea of like eating pizza when you know that you’re sensitive to gluten and dairy. It tastes good while you’re eating it, but then you pay for it later. Adrenaline works the same way. It feels powerful in the moment, but you crash afterwards. Healing starts with calming your nervous system, not provoking it. So, let’s look at which biohacks support calm and which ones quietly make your symptoms worse. Number one, cold plunging. Uh, this is a strong no for me. This is way too stimulating on the nervous system for most people with complex and chronic illness. This feels good for some, but you’re putting a lot of pressure on your adrenal glands, and you’re creating a lot of adrenaline in the body, which can cause more harm in the long run. Now, what might be okay are things like ice packs on different parts of your body, especially if there’s nerve pain there, like especially on the head, you can put an ice pack on your head. You can uh do cold splashes of cold water on your face. You can put the cold water on at the end of a shower for a few seconds, maybe up to a minute. Intensity and duration definitely matter. Number two are infrared saunas. Okay, I love infrared saunas, but there are some caveats with using infrared saunas to heal. First of all, don’t overdo it. Don’t stay in too long. If you’re struggling with fatigue, dizziness, or adrenal issues, long or intense sessions can make your symptoms worse, and people don’t always realize it because the getting worse might happen much later after the sauna, but when they first get out, they might feel good. You want to start slow and you want to start low. So, if you have the ability to adjust the temperature in your sauna, that’s fantastic. Maybe instead of 170, you start with 120. Maybe you start with five minutes, 10 minutes. Just go slow and pace yourself. Now, the other thing that’s super critical about infrared sauna is before and after, you need to make sure that you’re hydrating. Hydration is critical. My favorite ways to hydrate before and after a sauna are lemon water, coconut water, and green juices. These are nature’s best electrolytes. I prefer these over an electrolyte powder because electrolyte powders are generally filled with citric acid, natural flavors, and the wrong kind of sodium and the wrong balance because you need natural glucose. And most of the most of the electrolytes today have no glucose in them. When you’re sweating in infrared sauna, it should feel productive, not draining. So, if you feel wiped out or shaky after you use the sauna, it’s a sign you need to scale back. And again, it doesn’t mean it’s right after. It could be before you go to bed. It could be much later in the day. So, it’s important when you’re tracking these things to look across like a 24-hour period. If you’re in a flare or you’re overly sensitive, I would say lay off of uh infrared saunas completely, right? You might just need to stick with foods to detoxify your body at first. You can also try hot baths. Sometimes hot baths work better than saunas. You really just want to listen to your body. Um, with all of these things that I’m going over today, you want to follow your intuition and really kind of treat your body like a baby, right? Like, would you do this to a child, right? Really gentle, really slow, and really supportive. You’re not going to force anything. And if it doesn’t feel good, skip it and return when your body’s ready. Red light therapy is another bio hack. Now, this one isn’t necessarily going to cause harm, but I would say it probably adds cost and time, and there’s probably better ways to spend your time. I’ve done a lot of light therapy myself, and I found that the effects are okay, but they’re not the same as when you use food and supplements because they’re really not getting at the root cause. You’re not addressing pathogens and symptoms with red light therapy. The idea is you’re feeding your cells, your mitochondria with some light, right? And it’s it is one of the nutrients that it needs. Just like if there was no more sunshine, we couldn’t live. Same thing. You need light. Your body needs light. Your cells need light. But it also needs other nutrients, too. It needs antioxidants. It needs glucose. It needs minerals. So, and if there’s any kind of oxidative stress, you want to reduce that as well. If you want a better bang for your buck than red light therapy, I recommend peptides. And by that, I don’t mean collagen peptides. So, if you are curious about peptides, you want to explore peptides, maybe you’ve heard about them. I’d love to get the conversation going and understand if you’re curious about peptides, leave me a comment below and maybe I’ll do a future video on peptides. Sleep optimization. This is a strong yes, for sure. The most healing window of sleep that you can get is between 1000 p.m. and 2 am. This is your deep sleep window. And this is the time that you do the most healing, your brain, your guts, everything. If you are having trouble falling asleep, whether you need to take herbs or a hot bath or whatever you need to do to help you fall asleep by 10:00, that would be ideal. Also, um, sleep hygiene is important. So, you probably have heard all these things. You want to be comfortable. You want to be cool. You want the room to be super dark, like pitch black and ideally no noise. Um, some people like white noise. Sometimes people do better without white noise. So, experiment with that. You also want to avoid any kind of food 2 to three hours before. My only caveat is if you are waking in the middle of the night and feel like you’re having blood sugar issues, you might want to have something very light and easy to digest um before bed in that 2 to three hour window like mangoes or uh mangoes or raw honey. Those can help you get through that blood sugar window at night. But otherwise, skipping especially anything heavy or fatty and those three hours before bed. Hyperaric chambers. This is another one that I’m giving a no. Not because it’s harmful, but just because it’s very expensive and time consuming and you’re pushing oxygen into the body, which is a good thing. Oxygen kills pathogens. This is why people that exercise are generally healthier is part of that is that they’re not the circulation, but they’re also getting more oxygen. So, oxygen does kill pathogens. But what I would argue is that most people that are struggling with long COVID or have a lot of chronic symptoms also have a congested liver. And when the liver is congested and you eat fat, you’re not breaking down that fat and getting rid of the fat. That means that fat is thickening your bloodstream. So that fat is in your bloodstream. It’s moving around. It’s probably going to go out through your digestive system instead of actually being used by your body. Your body, your liver is just not processing it. And so when there’s all that fat in your blood, there is no room for oxygen. That’s the problem. There’s no room for oxygen. There’s no room for water or hydration. And there’s no room for minerals. So instead of doing hyperbaric chambers, I recommend that you reduce your overall fat load. That means reducing protein. That means reducing oils, nuts, and seeds. All those things need to be reduced to thin your blood to have more oxygen in it. Grounding. I love grounding. Grounding is amazing. Whether you can walk around barefoot, on the grass, on the dirt, on the beach, grounding is amazing. And if you can even lie on the beach and lie on the grass in a towel that’s not synthetic, that’s made of cotton or natural fabric, that is amazing. If you’ve got grounding sheets, those are amazing. All of those are positives in my mind. Meditation also amazing. This is always going to calm the nervous system. Just like grounding will always calm the nervous system. Meditation will calm your nervous system. Whether you’re a person with monkey mind like me that you can’t calm that mind down. But just taking the time to get quiet, to get conscious, to focus on your breath, and to close your eyes, right? I like to meditate lying down. For me that having my my torso horizontal is the best. I haven’t seen anything negative. Whether it’s a guided meditation that’s great if you have monkey mind guided meditation or just lying there doing nothing is great even if you can’t actually quiet your thoughts. Breath work. Now breath work is a mixed bag because depending on where your ner in your nervous system there’s inflammation. If there’s inflammation in your vagus nerve, in your frenic nerve that kind of runs through your your lungs and your diaphragm and things like that, you could get worse with certain types of breath work. And so again, I every everybody’s different, right? And so you really have to figure out for you, you might want to check your heart rate before you do breath work and after and see how much does your breath how much does your heart rate go up? Is this actually a good thing for you? One of the best breath works that I just recently learned about that I’ve been loving doing and this is great whether you have anxiety, a panic attack, or you just want to calm yourself down is a breath work where you release all of the air. Just release all the air in your lungs and you push out the extra air and you get to the bottom and you kind of hold it there until you get a cue from your body to bring in air. And so you leave it there and then when you get the cue from your body, you just follow your breath as it comes in. Just no no pressure, no pushing, no nothing. Just let the air come in. And then when the air comes in, release it. I always say release it because you don’t want to push, right? The idea is you release your breath and you get let it go down back down to the bottom. Push out any extra air and again hold it there until you’re get your body tells you to bring breathe in again. Now you repeat this cycle like six times. It’s amazing. It can really calm down any kind of frantic thing. Um, amazing breath work there. Intermittent fasting is a strong no. And the reason is that when you skip meals or you’re going for long periods of time without food, you are spiking adrenaline. Now, the only exception I would say to this is if if you even call this intermittent fasting, but 12-h hour eating window is great, but anything less than that, I would say is is a no. I would call that um intermittent fasting. So, it also it imbalances your blood sugar and it can make your symptoms worse. It can slow healing because you’re not getting glucose and minerals in that your body needs. Also, when people are intermittent fasting, they’re relying on two things. They’re relying on caffeine to get them through and they’re also relying on high fat. So, that fat will sustain you for longer than glucose will. If you eat glucose, you’re going to have to eat more often. And they also with this reliance on caffeine and this highfat diet, you’re kind of hiding fatigue. So, I can see how if you’re really fatigued and you choose intermittent fasting that you might feel good, but in the end, you’re actually making things worse because your liver has to get rid of all that adrenaline. And that adrenaline is stimulating your nervous system where what we want to do is really calm our nervous system. So, if you’ve tried biohacking and you still feel sick, there’s nothing wrong with you. Your body isn’t weak and it’s just overwhelmed. And healing starts when you can calm your system down and give it steady fuel, not when you shock it with more stimulation. So, some tools can be helpful, some will slow you down. The real shift happens when you choose the things that support your nervous system and stop pushing the ones that drain you. If this video was helpful, leave me a comment and subscribe to my channel so you don’t miss the next video. Thanks so much for watching.
If you have Long COVID or mystery symptoms and biohacking has not helped, this video will make things clear. Some tools support healing. Others overload your nervous system and slow recovery. I walk you through the top biohacks people try and explain which ones to avoid and which ones to use with caution. You will learn why cold plunges spike adrenaline, why intermittent fasting backfires, and why steady glucose and nervous system stability matter for real healing.
What you will learn:
• Why some biohacks feel good but worsen symptoms
• Why adrenaline based tools crash sensitive systems
• Safer options for heat, light, sleep, and oxygen
• How to support your body during Long COVID recovery
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00:00 The problem with biohacking in Long COVID
01:58 Cold plunge
02:46 Infrared sauna
05:09 Red light therapy
06:26 Sleep optimization
07:42 Hyperbaric oxygen
09:05 Grounding
09:30 Meditation
10:14 Breathwork
11:53 Intermittent fasting
13:08 Final thoughts
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