Keck Medicine of USC is conducting a clinical trial to determine if a low-carbohydrate, anti-inflammatory diet combined with a medical food raising blood ketone levels can alleviate symptoms of long COVID. The study, based on the theory that prolonged inflammation post-COVID infection causes the syndrome, aims to examine the diet's efficacy in reducing inflammation and improving patients' health.
Approximately 7 per cent of Americans have had protracted COVID, which is characterised by a variety of chronic health problems that occur after infection and recovery from COVID-19. Fatigue, brain fog, headaches, chest pain, heart palpitations, and other symptoms may occur.
A low-carb, anti-inflammatory diet may spur hope for people suffering from long Covid, suggests an Indian-origin researcher.Long Covid is an often debilitating illness that occurs in at least 10 per cent of patients after a Covid-19 infection .
Doctors at the University of Southern California (USC) announced this week a clinical trial that will test the effect of anti-inflammatory foods, such as berries and fish, on long Covid symptoms.