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May 17

Tested my baseline with the nicotine patches and I had a major baseline increase. No longer getting PEM just existing. Only took 5 days on NRT to get a baseline increase. I had to double my patches to 14mg because my body metabolizes drugs too fast, other people will likely need lower dose. This is not medical advice just my experience

Continuing the nicotine patch test experiment with a patch dosage
increase today to see if I can raise my baseline more.

I wore no patches yesterday and my baseline was the same with them. Brain fog, orthostatic intolerance and energy all improved. Most of my LC symptoms are gone

The main symptoms remaining are mobility issues from muscle inflammation. I’m not sure if it’s fibromyalgia causing the muscle pain or ME. But my brain feels so much better. I can talk normally again and my recall is much improved. Tinnitus hasn’t come back either. I can’t do much bc of my leg pain so I’m still mostly bedbound, but I feel like once that is better I will have much more quality of life

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Erin Tarantino 🇨🇦 / 💙💛

@erincandy

Feb 16

Once you realize that aging is a side effect of immune system damage, you realize why anti-aging drugs help with long COVID symptoms.

Taurine deficiency as a driver of aging

“Aging is associated with physiological changes that range in scale from organelles to organ systems, but we are still working to understand the molecular basis for these changes. Studying various animals, Singh et al. found that the amount of the semi-essential amino acid taurine in circulation decreased with age. Supplementation with taurine slowed key markers of aging such as increased DNA damage, telomerase deficiency, impaired mitochondrial function, and cellular senescence. Loss of taurine in humans was associated with aging-related diseases, and concentrations of taurine and its metabolites increased in response to exercise. Taurine supplementation improved life span in mice and health span in monkeys.

Mechanistically, taurine reduced cellular senescence, protected against telomerase deficiency, suppressed mitochondrial dysfunction, decreased DNA damage, and attenuated inflammaging. In humans, lower taurine concentrations correlated with several age-related diseases and taurine concentrations increased after acute endurance exercise. Thus, taurine deficiency may be a driver of aging because its reversal increases health span in worms, rodents, and primates and life span in worms and rodents. Clinical trials in humans seem warranted to test whether taurine deficiency might drive aging in humans.

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Erin Tarantino 🇨🇦 / 💙💛

@erincandy

Jan 29

Most people don’t want to hear that diet is the most important thing in controlling mast cells but it’s true. The gut microbiome is the most important thing in the body after our brain. I tried everything for a year a half and it wasn’t until I completely changed my lifestyle & diet completely with a strict low histamine diet and cut out all my sensitivities, within 3 months MCAS & leaky gut were better and then my long covid symptoms started to drastically improve. I only eat whole grains, no bleached flour or wheat germ, no corn or soy at all, only mozza, cream cheese and yogurt for dairy. My food sensitivities and allergies are improving, I had a cookie yesterday and it didn’t send me into a flare.

If you have mast cell issues, you’re gonna wanna learn about histamine in food. At this point I consider myself a mast cell specialist. I know the histamine levels of everything now. You want to stick with foods that are fresh, the fewer ingredients the better. Nothing frozen or processed. You want to stay away from things that are fermented, very high histamine levels. Leftover food in your fridge is going get higher in histamine the longer it’s in there. I Google the histamine levels in everything. Vinegar is your enemy. Probiotics are your friend. I would also do intermittent fasting because your body will have more energy throughout the day when your body isn’t constantly trying to digest food, and you will get more out of the food you eat. I would start here and learn about good histamine foods and bad histamine foods histaminintoleranz.ch/downloads/SIGH…

A few things I have learned about mast cells and the body. For me, I have a histamine intolerance. My body doesn’t break down histamine right, so if I am ingesting a lot of histamine, my body is going to be flooded with it. The other component, is DAO. your body needs to make DAO to break down histamine. If you are eating foods that are high in histamine, and also eating foods that block DAO, boom you got mast cell activation syndrome. So you are going to want to
1. Eat low histamine foods
2. Avoid DAO blockers
3. H1 & H2 blockers
4. Eat small meals throughout your eating window and do intermittent fasting. I do 18:6 but beginners should start with 16:8.
5. Find your persona food sensitivities and cut them out
6. Eat foods that are rich in antioxidant and that are going to help your microbiome, not destroy it

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Erin Tarantino 🇨🇦 / 💙💛

@erincandy

Dec 28, 2023

The 24/7 feeling like you’re gonna die but you don’t long COVID feeling I had since March 2022 is finally gone. The crippling daily fatigue is gone again. I had a remission event Aug/sept but then I crashed in October and was diagnosed with Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome in December. Been on beta blockers since Dec 6, my heart is lowering a bit but I need a higher dosage for sure. Still waiting on the results of my Holter monitor. Definitely won’t hear from my cardiologist until the new year. But I feel like my MCAS is stabilized, my mental health is much better since going off my SSRI and SNRI actually. I’m not having panic attacks or anxiety. My insomnia is under control again. I’m feeling so much better overall other than my POTS. It’s maddening feeling better from all my other LC symptoms, and feeling normal when I lay down now. But I can’t really walk or do anything other than light activity around the house without my heart rate shooting to 130,140^ and then the POTS symptoms start.

My must have supplements for LC:
Probiotics (Lactobacillus plantarum & bifidobacterium)
Quercertin
NAC
B1, B2, B3, B6, B12
Reishi mushroom caps (brain fog gone most days)
Tumeric/Curcumin
Magnesium w electrolytes, Selenium, Copper
Antihistamines: H1 & H2 blockers (Claritin, Benedryl, Pepcid)
Sodium tabs (for POTS)
D3
Omega 3
Resveratrol (antioxidant)
Alpha Lipoic Acid (antioxidant)
Coenzyme Q10

Compression socks & zero sugar Gatorade seem to help with my POTS along with the beta blocker but it’s still severe.

Feeling pretty good today though

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Erin Tarantino 🇨🇦 / 💙💛

@erincandy

Nov 13, 2023

As someone who studied history I think that we are in a period that will be considered the dark ages of public health in future history books. Not only are we actively regressing on public health measures during the worst pandemic in modern times; we are allowing an unprecedented scientific experiment on 8 billion people with a novel coronavirus that is airborne, vascular and the worst virus humanity has faced since the Black Death. And we are failing miserably. We are actively headed for the extinction of humanity if we continue on this trajectory. And the majority of people are in denial because reality is too scary. Guess what, it is fucking scary.

People in the category of COVID minimizing or denial (including people who work in public health!) actively become defensive when they see people masking because they are reminded of the reality they actually live in, not the one they want to think still exists. I’m seeing reports
Of schools banning HEPA filters bc it’s scary. Most ppl don’t know COVID is airborne. Most ppl don’t know repeat COVID will slowly kill you. The only way out of this is a GLOBAL public health response of a clean air initiative that cleans all public shared indoor air. There was a time when indoor plumbing was seen as something unattainable for the general public, not a priority, not commonplace in first world countries. We are at a point in time where in the near future clean air acts will be the standard that we can’t live without, and future generations will be wondering what the fuck all you people denying masks and clean air were thinking. Be on the right side of history and mask up and demand clean public indoor air. COVID is airborne. Proper air ventilation in public spaces cut COVID exposure by 89%. Be the change you want to see in the world, wear a mask during COVID surges and demand that schools, hospitals, LTC homes, all public indoor spaces, work places, offices, stop forcing eugenics on everyone and clean the fkn shared air! #COVIDisAirborne #CovidIsNotOver

Live in your fantasy denial world all you want but the reality is with excess deaths counted, 26 million people have died from COVID worldwide in ~4 years. Minimize or gaslight all you want but this is the reality. Sars2 damaged your immune system, causes long term chronic illness, breaks the blood brain barrier and potentially causes prion diseases which are always fatal, causes heart disease and strokes, causes autoimmune disorders, causes cancer, causes brain damage, causes babies to be born with smaller lungs, causes dna changes, attacks every organ in your body. Getting infected with sars2 multiple times a year is not sustainable in a global population. We are killing everyone.

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Erin Tarantino 🇨🇦 / 💙💛

@erincandy

Feb 5, 2022

I have literally soooooooo much evidence from their official telegram that the freedom convoy is a massive front for alt right extremism as a global movement and it all leads back to the trump effect. I mean General Flynn is sending support to the organizers on telegram ffs

I really just want this to be exposed before the CPC and PPC become the GQP because that’s where Canada is headed if this isn’t taken seriously for what it is. #OttawaOccupation #CouttsCrisis is Canadas January 6th at the core

Even 45 references this at his rally! Pay attention if you don’t want Canada to turn into an alt right cesspool where it’s okay that Nazis desecrate our war heroes and people try and and excuse it as “bad apples” in the name of freedom.

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