British researchers revealed the most cost-effective treatment for long-term COVID. How it alleviates long-term coronavirus symptoms and, in particular, how it reduces the likelihood of diabetes and depression, both of which are Long Covid symptoms.

While there is no medically recognized treatment for Long COVID, exercise may help to stop the vicious cycle of inflammation that can lead to diabetes and depression months after the virus is gone.

Long COVID is known to produce depression and to raise blood glucose levels to the point that people get diabetic ketoacidosis, a potentially life-threatening illness frequent in people with type 1 diabetes.

According to the authors of this study, “Exercise can help. Exercise takes care of the inflammation that leads to elevated blood glucose and the development and progression of diabetes and clinical depression.”

Long-term COVID generates “a constellation of other debilitating symptoms,” such as brain fog, muscle pain, and fatigue, that can continue for months after a person recovers from the original infection, according to the Centers for Disease Control.

For example, a person may not become sick with COVID-19, but may acquire diabetes six months later, long after the cough or fever has gone away.

One solution is exercise.

The mile isn’t necessary to run or walk at a brisk pace.

“Walking slowly is also exercising. Ideally, you would do a 30-minute session of exercise. But if you can only do 15 minutes at a time, try to do two 15-minute sessions. If you can only walk 15 minutes once a day, do that. The important thing is to try. It doesn’t matter where you begin. You can gradually build up to the recommended level of exercise,” said the authors.

We all know that physical activity is an important part of living a healthy lifestyle. Exercise can be applied to stop the chain reaction of inflammation that leads to high blood sugar levels, and ultimately to the development or advancement of type 2 diabetes, according to this study.

Source: 10.1249/JES.0000000000000284

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