Less Stressed Life: Helping You Heal Yourself #328 Long Covid: What we know now with Gary Kaplan, DO
This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, I'm excited to have Dr. Gary Kaplan back. Dr. Kaplan is a doctor of osteopathic medicine (DO). In this episode, Dr. Kaplan talks about what the treatment pie is for recovering from Long COVID, why you may be experiencing long term symptoms, how you can be evaluated for treatment, request treatment or get more information.
Dr. Kaplan's other episode on the LSL: 323: Chronic pain, depression, and sleep issues with Dr. Gary Kaplan
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
- What are the symptoms of long COVID?
- COVID can affect every system in the body
- Why are we seeing an increase in cancer?
- What helps with the loss of taste and smell?
- Why do you lose taste and smell when you have COVID?
- What is the treatment for a high fever?
- Why do people struggle with detoxing and alcohol tolerance after having COVID?
- What can you do to support the kidneys post COVID?
- Solutions for Long COVID
- How does metformin help Long COVID?
- How do you diagnose Long COVID?
- Benefits of methylene blue
- What are cytokines?
ABOUT GUEST:
Gary Kaplan, DO a clinical associate professor at Georgetown University School of Medicine, founder and medical director of the Kaplan Center for Integrative Medicine and author of Why You Are Still Sick: How Infections Can Break Your Immune System and How You Can Recover. A pioneer and leader in the field of integrative medicine, Dr. Kaplan is one of only 19 physicians in the country to be board-certified in both Family Medicine and Pain Medicine. In November, Dr. Kaplan will co-chair an international conference on New Developments in Understanding Chronic Illness: The Role of the Immune Dysfunction and Infections.
Find Dr. Kaplan's conference information here: https://foundationfortotalrecovery.org/
WHERE TO FIND:
Website: https://kaplanclinic.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kaplan_clinic/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KaplanCenterforIntegrativeMedicine
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjBaguhq1VYTBHMYlvKCMIw
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