Why inactive ingredients can be a gamechanger
- Condition
- Long COVID
- At worst
- Severe (mostly bedbound)
- Ill for
- Not stated
- Published
- Oct 2024
Summary
Christy's treatment here is CoQ10 (Qunol brand): she started with 50 mg gummies (though the bottle recommended 100 mg) last winter, then switched to a liquid "Superior Absorption" formulation that let her tolerate higher doses without side effects, which she attributes to differences in inactive ingredients between the two forms. The page doesn't describe how severe or long her illness was beforehand. The gummy form made her "mentally more awake, similar to...caffeine," but the liquid form reduced her body-wide PEM, raised her activity threshold, and left her more alert and creative. No information is given about whether this improvement has persisted, faded, or needed dose adjustments since switching formulations.
What they credit
Credits Supplements, Trauma & somatic work, CoQ10 / ubiquinol.
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