In a new study from Pennington Biomedical Research Center, researchers found while no medically recognized treatment exists for Long COVID, exercise may break the vicious cycle of inflammation that can lead to developing diabetes and depression months after a person recovers from the virus.
It’s unclear how many people suffer from Long COVID. But estimates range from 15 percent to 80 percent of the people infected.
Based on those figures, it’s possible that as many as 1 million of Louisiana’s residents suffer from Long COVID.
Long COVID causes what the Centers for Disease Control describes as “a constellation of other debilitating symptoms” including brain fog, muscle pain, and fatigue that can last for months after a person recovers from the initial infection.
In the study, the team found one solution is exercise.
They found that exercise can be used to break the chain reaction of inflammation that leads to high blood sugar levels, and then to the development or progression of type 2 diabetes
The team says ideally people could do a 30-minute session of exercise. But if they can only do 15 minutes at a time, try to do two 15-minute sessions.
If they can only walk 15 minutes once a day, do that. The important thing is to try. It doesn’t matter where they begin. People can gradually build-up to the recommended level of exercise.
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The study is published in the journal Exercise and Sport Sciences Reviews and was conducted by Candida Rebello et al.
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