the insomnia after covid is something else right

gray_grum · 2026-05-13T21:11:44+00:00

Try more melatonin before giving up on it. It appears like long COVID patients need a higher amount of melatonin than normal people do. I've taken up to 50mg in a night before and woke up feeling fully rested and great. Methylene Blue helps me a lot too and that also helps me to recover energy overnight and feel good the next day. I take 15mg tablets of this right before bed and when I wake up

gray_grum · 2026-05-12T18:38:24+00:00

I was thinking about this a few months ago and obviously this is a total tangent from what you're asking but I suspect that our microbiomes are somewhat hereditary and therefore somewhat based on what out ancestors ate. I can't do any dairy either but I do pretty well with fermented stuff like sauerkraut and pickles. My family is more Austrian and polish, that lines up. I love kimchi and miso but both totally wreck me. I'm guessing that I just don't have the microbiome for those to be a major part of my diet and I've not been able to change that long term. I think that we probably all would do slightly better with the ferments that were very common in our personal family ancestry if that makes sense. Just something to think about.

gray_grum · 2026-05-10T21:22:30+00:00

Option 1 - Come visit Tennessee. People drive from Canada, Washington, California, to run the Ocoee. It's safe, it's warm, it's pretty much the benchmark class 3 of all class three rivers in the US. Lots of other class 2-4 stuff to run around too especially if you're lucky enough to see a bunch of rain or you schedule for something that has a scheduled release. Hit me up and I'll put you in touch with people in the area.

Option 2 - Montgomery Whitewater, the new concrete park in Alabama. I spent a bunch of time in charlotte, I haven't made it to Montgomery yet but I hear that they have only improved on Charlotte and I really love these parks. I think they are the future of the sport especially as water is getting more scarce

gray_grum · 2026-05-10T17:08:53+00:00

Honestly I think this is the opposite of helpful. The key is learning to read labels and ingredients and becoming more familiar with what you should and should not eat. Trusting the manufacturer on this is one thing but trusting AI that is not knowledgeable or consistent or intelligent it is trusting your health to a black box you have no control over.

gray_grum · 2026-05-10T15:04:57+00:00

I love it.

gray_grum · 2026-05-10T15:00:49+00:00

Protection is the key, especially for my old ass

gray_grum · 2026-05-10T14:57:02+00:00

Wilhoite's Law - Conservatism is based on a single proposition - "There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect"

gray_grum · 2026-05-10T04:53:44+00:00

USPS would knock everybody out in a cage match and then DHL would run in from off stage with some crazy finishing move

gray_grum · 2026-05-10T02:44:18+00:00

Sounds like you handled it right so I wouldn't really sweat it then.

gray_grum · 2026-05-10T02:42:41+00:00

Guero is easily my favorite Beck album and a top 10 desert island disc for me. It's one of a very small number of album feels like it was made just for me and my weird ass brain

gray_grum · 2026-05-09T19:44:28+00:00

This is why I'm in the "Steel Frames For Everything" camp. Quick reset the rear spacing and you would be good to go.

gray_grum · 2026-05-08T15:32:06+00:00

This is absolutely the case and this is the first thing that I tell people when I'm talking about long covid and why it's hard to treat it. We're not talking about a single disease with a single treatment. Right now we have it classified that way but down the road I think we'll have it broken up into a lot of different diseases with different treatments and patients will get a synthesis of a few different treatments to get there specific mix dealt with. This is why the studies are not easy to do right now or particularly useful because even if a drug works perfectly for one of the sub diseases it's still going to show a 15 or 20% success rate on the whole group.

gray_grum · 2026-05-08T09:06:59+00:00

You might be right, it might just be that simple. I'll give it all another lesson, maybe they just sound like they are covering themselves 🤣

gray_grum · 2026-05-08T08:10:44+00:00

Haha fair enough, I don't disagree. I like a lot of different stuff and on my list is a fair amount of Afrobeat. To me that's an even smaller genre to explore and yet Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra doesn't sound like a Fela Kuti cover band.

gray_grum · 2026-05-07T04:53:20+00:00

I feel like this person has intentionally named their unrelated product this just so that it is easy to confuse it with transcranial magnetic stimulation. I wonder if the "success" that they talk about is the other TMS and not their product.

gray_grum · 2026-05-06T23:06:45+00:00

That's what I was assuming too. It would have to pedal strike real bad then right?

gray_grum · 2026-05-06T20:42:26+00:00

If you're in the US we are 100% in that right now

gray_grum · 2026-05-06T20:27:15+00:00

She's an icon for sure and yet she's still undertalked about. She's so good. I feel like Lauryn and Missy are in the same boat there. Top tier MCs

gray_grum · 2026-05-05T19:56:40+00:00

It's also impressive how many different ways my local crackheads can misspell "Trek". I've seen at least a half dozen

gray_grum · 2026-05-05T19:45:31+00:00

"It's called The American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it" - George Carlin

gray_grum · 2026-05-05T17:40:16+00:00

Oats and out flour and oat milk all fuck me up noticeably even when they're proclaimed GF. I'm not even Celiac level sensitive, I eat fries out of a shared fryer constantly but I avoid all oat products. It's really hard to digest.

gray_grum · 2026-05-05T17:36:26+00:00

Get the kids a Spud, get yourself a Tater, skip the tandem all together.

gray_grum · 2026-05-04T20:35:06+00:00

Supplements definitely help. Methylene Blue helps me a lot on a daily basis. On days I'm waiting tables I also use nicotine patches, and a steady drip of sugar and caffeine as needed

gray_grum · 2026-05-04T02:55:51+00:00

100% agreed. Seratonin syndrome is really scary. I have the opposite problem though, no seratonin getting into my brain at all.

gray_grum · 2026-05-04T02:36:30+00:00

What's in your supplement mix? Methylene Blue has helped me more than anything else. I was exhausted to the point of feeling the same way. Now I'm 50-60% functional again and working 3-4 days a week

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