A New Explanation and Help for Long Covid

Previous research carried out by the University of Texas using the NovoTHOR PBM Therapy whole body light bed has shown how well it can help with the neurological Long Covid brain fog symptoms such as:

• Slow thinking
• Poor articulation
• Lack of recall (especially numbers)
• Slow reactions
• Forgetting names and directions
• Clumsy, easily confused, losing train of thought
• Mentally overwhelmed, and mentally fatigued

It has been established by decades of research that PBM Therapy improves the amount of energy in your cells through improvement in Mitochondrial energy (ATP) production. ATP is made from oxygen and glucose in a complex reaction and is used by cells to power healing and repair as well as the job the cell is programmed to do.

Each of the millions of the 200 cell types in your body have these little Mitochondrial ‘power stations’. The numbers of these are proportional to the cell’s function or job. For instance, cells requiring high amounts of energy (e.g., heart muscle, liver, kidney, neurons which make up nerves) have significantly higher numbers to produce necessary ATP. For instance:

• Liver Cells have 2,000 per cell
• Heart Muscle Cells typically 5,000 – 8,000
• Neurons (nerve cells) up to 2 million!

This boosting energy production in cells is why PBM Therapy has the potential to affect so many varied and seemingly unconnected medical conditions and symptoms from head to toe.  As a result of the increase in energy production the inflammation produced in a cell a drops (like a see-saw effect) giving our NovoTHOR whole body PBM Therapy light bed the potential to treat, help, alleviate and improve many medical conditions/symptoms head to toe all at the same time.

It should come as no surprise then that conditions where fatigue is an issue have been studied to see if PBM Therapy could help. PBM Therapy has been found to help in Fibromyalgia, enhancing sports performance and with new emerging evidence for Long Covid. Up to now the thought in Long Covid for potential improvement was solely via this ATP increased energy production and inflammation reduction but new research from French researchers  has shed ‘more light’ on another potential cause of Long Covid and so raises the possibility of a novel new mechanism of how PBM Therapy could be of benefit other than the direct production of this ATP.

The French research team have found Micro clots are 20 times higher in Long Covid sufferers compared to those who did not have Long Covid (controls). These clots can block the smallest oxygen carrying blood vessels called Capillaries that gets to the deepest part of all our tissues. They are so small they only allow 1 red blood cell to pass through them at any one time!

Think of our blood delivery system like a tree. Oxygen rich blood is carried in main arteries (like the trunk of a tree) to main branches that go into smaller branches to smaller branches (arterioles) then onto a stalk and leaf (capillary) to deliver the oxygen to the cells which then is connected to the veins/venous system to take the oxygen spent blood back to the lungs. As a result of this new research, is it possible that PBMT may also help by shifting these clots?

PBMT releases a chemical called Nitric oxide from your Mitochondria. Nitric oxide binds to ‘smooth muscle’ cells that make up a substantial part of your blood vessel which results in:

• The smooth muscle cells in the artery / arteriole walls relax (vasodilation) expanding the blood vessel diameter and increases the blood flow
• More blood also promotes new blood vessel growth (angiogenesis)

This pushing of more blood through the old capillaries has the potential to shift these micro clots so more oxygen and ultimately ATP gets into your cells (as well as via the new blood vessel growth). This new hypothesis clearly needs research, but adds more fuel to the possibility of another novel mechanism explaining how PBM Therapy could be of benefit to Long Covid sufferers. Clearly Long Covid is a very complicated condition. It has multiple causes so far discovered which have the potential to give rise to symptoms, but there are probably also other factors yet to be discovered by researchers.

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Our PBM Therapy Clinic has the enviable position of having one of the few whole body NovoTHOR PBM Therapy Light Beds in the UK. There are only a few hundred of these globally and less than 15 in the UK. We are easy to get to as we are in the centre of the country, close to motorways, train links and airports.

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