EP 40 – How to treat Coronavirus with Dr Tamsin Lewis, Founder of Wellgevity

• Developing psychological well-being and an intuitive sense of self is key in ‘healthspan’. It is not a generic ‘one size fits all’ and data analysis is a vital part of understanding what is affecting you and what makes a difference.
• How do we affect the physiology to affect the psychology?
• The filter on your world is dependent on your biochemistry and the dynamic interplay with others on a day to day basis.
• From an ancestral perspective, humans evolved with periods of stress followed by periods of downtime; in the world today we want to achieve optimum work all of the time. As humans, we go through periods of flux and we need to be more attune to this.
• Women have fluctuating hormone variations on a monthly basis whilst the majority of men have relatively consistent levels of testosterone. So men have far more stability. Our hormones and the variances play a huge part in how we feel and function.

Coronavirus

• The effects of this virus are unpredictable it has widespread effects that are different for different people. The widespread post-viral syndrome is extraordinary and we don’t know how long it last
• No one is immune from getting this so following the advice issued, wearing a saturation monitor, having adequate supplies of paracetamol and taking good doses of fish oil are actions everyone can implement.
• It’s an illness that is very unknown and affects people in different ways and with so many variables it’s important to not to mega dose on any single supplement.
• The virus sits around and can reactivate affecting your immune system and triggering inflammation and blood glucose level fluctuation that can take an extended time to recover from.