Gwyneth Paltrow begins her experience with COVID-19 and the symptoms she experiences months after her recovery.
“I had COVID-19 early on, and it left me with a bit of long-tail fatigue and brain fog,” Paltrow wrote in a recent post for her website, Goop.
People who experience symptoms more than two months after being diagnosed with the coronavirus are often referred to as ‘long-term carriers’.
Dr. Robert Glatter, an emergency physician at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York, explained to TODAY in July that many COVID-19 patients have symptoms that last for months, from fever to pain and chills to shortness of breath and general fatigue.
Paltrow said she had tests done in January that showed she had ‘very high levels of inflammation in my body’. She said that she dr. Will Cole, who advised her on a “version of a protocol” he outlined in his book Intuitive Fasting.
“It’s keto and plant based, but flexible (I’ve had fish and a few other meats before), and I fast every day until 11am,” she wrote, adding that she is used to cleansing, but her current diet plan is more “freewheeling.”
She said she cooked a lot, but without sugar and ‘naturally’ no alcohol.
She then made a number of products she uses available on her website, including several supplements that she says are mostly “in the service of a healthier gut”.
Paltrow listed butyrate, zinc, B vitamins, “some vitamins D3” and fish oil as some of the supplements she takes every day. She also said she regularly uses a vitamin C serum and infrared sauna.
An additional benefit is my skin, which makes me happy – and that I want to take care of the skin even more, ‘she wrote. “Let’s 2021 make the year of people who never need makeup!”
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With Paltrow’s opening on the fact that she’s had COVID-19 before, she joins a long list of A-list fellow people who have documented their experience in public. Probably especially Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson were among the first celebrities to become acquainted with their diagnosis, which according to a study later helped shape public opinion.
According to the study, people interviewed who heard the news said that Hanks’ diagnosis “emphasizes the reality of COVID-19” and broadens their understanding of not only the severity of the situation, but also their susceptibility to the disease.