Supplementation with L-Arginine + Vitamin C has beneficial effects
- Condition
- Long COVID
- At worst
- Moderate (mostly housebound)
- Ill for
- 1.5 years
- Published
- Mar 2024
Summary
L-citrulline powder, 3g per dose with 90mg of vitamin C powder, taken twice daily, was credited by searcher1 with resolving her long COVID symptoms. She had been ill with fatigue, breathing problems, muscle aches and brain fog since September 2022. After switching from vitamin C capsules, which caused bloating, to powder form, her symptoms resolved. She reported continuing the combination at a maintenance dose of 6g combined daily as of her post, explicitly staying under a self-imposed 10g upper limit. The account frames this as an ongoing maintenance regimen rather than a treatment she was able to stop.
What they credit
Credits Nitric-oxide boosters (beetroot, arginine, citrulline).
Symptoms mentioned
Symptoms: Brain fog, Breathlessness, Gut problems, Pain & fibromyalgia.
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