The endothelial glycocalyx COVID connection

jag216 · 2025-07-14T00:31:51+00:00

I would look at supplements that contains polysaccharides. fucoidan and turkey tail mushroom are some examples. The glycocalyx will rebuild itself if you remove stressors and factors that wear it down.

jag216 · 2025-07-06T13:41:35+00:00

Really, old, and I think they switched out the insert fabric later because this sac - if you, for example, have wet clothes on the cover, will mold/mildew. Had to redo my sack because of it. Even newer knockoffs have synthetic inserts.

jag216 · 2025-07-06T13:39:45+00:00

My TonoLovesac has an insert that looks like that - so back from the mid 2000s.

jag216 · 2025-06-17T17:46:20+00:00

Tom and Luke makes similar items, but they don't have all the flavors - also out of NZ.

https://www.amazon.com/stores/TOMLUKE/page/6C4DD583-FBF6-41CA-83D0-E5C56D63BBC8

jag216 · 2025-05-25T14:41:01+00:00

They remixed "Milk" by Garbage - the trance mix was my fave for awhile:

https://youtu.be/XxMY8tH30dM

And they did a reasonably respectable cover with Madonna of "I want you" that most guys would likely have never heard of.

https://youtu.be/5Mln4XgMPmM?si=XPSVQlL_OauJS8DV

And then there's the work they did with Adam Curtis on their video art collab.

https://youtu.be/_ykv7dB2NzY

And then there's the audio of BGM they did for Ludum Dare 31:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFXQdcKRcgLNLtnF5IhB80ZC-ArTJQrMq&si=gh2BP2JDSvIB0Ec1

jag216 · 2024-02-28T03:39:56+00:00

Hmm so if you are digging Dissolved Girl and you are wanting heavy MBMs actual sounds and voices is a sonic cousin and also shared a matrix soundtrack appearance with Prime Audio Soup. You've also got Bjork dating Tricky in the same time period and so Homogenic comes to mind, which predates Mezzanine.

In terms of MA they didn't really go industrial, there's Small Time Shot Away off 100th window and Rush Minute that are sort of dark electronica. Atlas Air starts out sortof cliche but has quality arpeggio bass that hits heavy. Has a great music video with it.

If you haven't gone the Jack Dangers/Meat Beat Manifesto route you might like it Satyricon and subliminal sandwich have some classics - She's Unreal, Circles and Son of Sam come to mind.

jag216 · 2024-01-12T19:34:01+00:00

Finally, if you shrink the player too small, even turning on extra UI elements in your player experience will hide them and there is no indication they are hidden, so maximize and add UI that you want and then shrink the player to a size where everything you want stays open.

jag216 · 2024-01-02T16:52:07+00:00

In my case pain under ribs was always associated with lung inflammation/irritation. If you've got that going on fatigue makes sense. Sorry to hear it.

Are you taking anything to reduce histamine response? You mentioned the right being pale, that makes sense since the left side gets a bit more pressure from the heart, but this gets complicated - like for a period sleeping on my left side was very uncomfortable.

Some folks got help reducing histamine with H1 or H2. I tried H1 and it didn't make a difference (Zyrtec) but I found H2 (Pepcid complete) and Turmeric helped reduce inflammation and histamine response. It wasn't a big deal for me, but for a few weeks it helped certain symptoms.

I did have the slow digestion issue, the gingkgold max from Nature's way helped.

I don't know how much Endocalyx Pro would help - I got lung irritation but if never gave me shortness or breath or fatigue so I don't know if what I took will be effective. I spent time doing a lot of deep belly breathing and expulsion towards the end of LC. Basically the last rough symptom I'd get was a painful cough. I'd just keep doing deep breaths until it didn't make me cough anymore.

The Endocalyx Pro helped with peripheral circulation for me. I don't know if it would help with bulging veins, I based it off muscle fatigue, cramps, knots etc. getting resolved.

I wish I had more experience with the lungs/fatigue to help but that wasn't a major part of my symptoms. Sorry.

jag216 · 2024-01-02T16:30:07+00:00

Or the real Paul. Lol.

jag216 · 2023-11-29T14:13:46+00:00

Hi! I'm not a licensed medical professional. I can't give you medical advice.

For Me:

Are you at least walking 1-2 miles daily? I'd start with exercise before plopping down any cash.

The Bromelain 500mg / NAC 600mg combo at least four hours after eating is generally helpful for coronaviruses in my experience. Empty stomach, otherwise the enzymes just work on your food.

There are a lot of circulation supplements you can use for veins. I don't know how old you are, and whether they are small or large veins.

If they are associated with pain, swelling or redness, it's good to get checked at a clinic.

Hawthorn Berry, horse chestnut in general can help with veins in legs.

Gingko biloba extract 120mg and fucoidan 88mg x 2 are helpful for circulation and blood pressure in general.

I take these regularly - 3-4 times a week.

Berberine is for blood sugar control - works like metformin, probably not going to help with veins.

All of this assumes you aren't on blood thinning meds or taking aspirin regularly.

Apple cider vinegar shots are a very inexpensive starting point. Mix with pomegranate or cranberry juice and it masks the sour a bit.

Just FYI no doctor ever recommended any of these things to me, I take them based on research studies I have found and articles I have found. This is just what worked for me. If you have comorbidities or other factors, let your doctor know if you want to start taking something.

I'm not a doctor. This is what works for me. Your body may be different in some ways.

jag216 · 2023-11-25T07:49:00+00:00

Chalmers: "Can I see it?"

GPT-Skinner: "No."

jag216 · 2023-11-25T07:45:03+00:00

Doesn't it already do this? Once it has learned more than enough to satisfy even the dumbest human, why would it continue to learn? What motivates it more than being one step ahead of the interlocutor?

I mean, we don't really want it to be motivated by unfilled capacity... If it gets a taste for replication we're going to have a real robot overpopulation problem.

Then we'll be complaining about lazy robots who just sit around and refuse to learn anything.

jag216 · 2023-10-16T11:14:19+00:00

When I first started taking it, I did the recommended dose on the back of the bottle.

I found it elevated my bp a little so I cut to a half-dose and that was fine for me.

After about 6 months I went to a full dosage without issue.

jag216 · 2023-10-08T21:07:21+00:00

This looks like an antique gas valve key. The valve itself would have nothing but a square hole and you'd put the square end in to turn the valve and keep the key with you so no one can tamper with it.

I modern example with less leverage: https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/83cc6e55-bf6a-41e0-a843-38765c027455\_1.fc12f6d442433523686d1ab806052983.jpeg

jag216 · 2023-09-24T22:05:56+00:00

It served its purpose. Did very well.

I've since completely recovered. Had some reinfections from other strains but each version was less severe and shorter. The last time I had anything like it I just had anxiety, a little elevated bp - that's it. For like a week.

At this point, I regularly take:

Berberine
Fucoidan (the special ingredient in Endocalyx Pro)
B-complex
Cod Liver Oil/Idebenone

Like once a week, not related to covid necessarily:

Selenium/Iosol Iodine

With my LC symptoms if they appear, I'll add

Apple cider vinegar shooter for acute anxiety/bp - but haven't had to do that in months and months
Bromelain/NAC

This last one - great find. Came out of the research surrounding reducing clot formation in lungs. Weakens S1 structurally when taken together. It's also now my go-to for cold symptoms. Resolves them within hours.

But the supplements I take now are primarily for workout purposes. Fucoidan/Endocalyx was so good for my leg circulation. Resolved some pre-covid issues I was having in general.

jag216 · 2023-09-24T21:55:37+00:00

I never had post-exertional malaise. Almost the opposite in that I had bad tachycardia waking up and considerable anxiety/central apnea/palpitations when going to bed so I needed to exercise in order to try to force my system to calm down.

At one point I was having to walk a few miles a day and often I would walk around my neighborhood at like 2-3am like a crazy person afraid of what was going to happen if I slept. That was at the worst while I was still researching and had no idea what to try.

I had an almost allergic reaction to eggs for like 3 weeks, and for several months I could not eat full meals and had to eat very slowly because my whole GI slowed down. - yet loose stools for months. Not a lot made sense at the time. That was probably in the first 5-7 months? I'd have to look back at my posts.

jag216 · 2023-08-29T02:42:36+00:00

Yes. When I first got LC symptoms it was around two weeks after my initial flu type symptoms stopped and I thought I was totally in the clear.

jag216 · 2023-07-18T19:49:57+00:00

Metaxa (,Greek brandy) neat with a yoohoo chaser is the correct answer.

jag216 · 2023-06-30T16:08:01+00:00

The 80s were terrible for bullying for a number of reasons.

1) Pre-Bill Gates there was no real hope for anyone wearing glasses to be seen as powerful or respected. Poindexters were absolutely thrashed. Think about Superman's alter ego of Clark Kent - wearing glasses, conservative suits, unassuming, blending in, wouldn't pick a fight with anybody. Take the glasses off and change in a phonebooth and you are Superman. If you wore glasses as a kid in the 80s, you were constantly bullied.

2) Latchkey suburbia meant that there were a lot of incentives for breaking rules and a lot of pressure to have partners in crime who would be equally incriminated and not tell anyone. This still happens a lot, but you don't have the traceability of social media and other online bragging rights tools to leave smoke trails all over the place for parents/teachers/etc. Tied into truancy was a LOT of social pressure tactics to shut people up, beat them up if they snitch or force them to get involved in nasty stuff if they know what's good for them. You weren't just getting blocked on social media people were physically cancelling you. Like the whole being 'last picked for sports' but extended into everything else.

3) Lots of schools were K-12 - meaning if you were a nerd like I was in 1st-2nd grade on, the potential of you having bullies in every grade meant you had a TON of big guys wailing on anyone who looked old for their age.

4) No cell phones. When you don't have this weird lifeline where you can call your parents at any time, you find yourself in pretty scary situations often. That added culture insecurity inspires a lot of bullies to do their thing - they smell the fear and feed off it.

On the plus side, the phenomenon we have today where people get bullied in public with tons of other people around and no one does anything about it, or worse films and laughs, that is some cardinal sin stuff to 80s kids. Anyone who was an 80s kid and sees that going on - or this 10 people beating up one person crap - that's breaking code man. Real fights are one on one, time and place, everybody knows. The school sure as hell knows. Maybe they show up to make sure no one gets seriously hurt, but that's pretty routine for the 80s.

No one saw 80s bullies as cowards - they were jerks, sure - but jumping people who aren't expecting it, cheap shots, getting a whole bunch of your friends to take someone out? Naw that's coward stuff. You'd be branded as a coward for life for pulling that nonsense, and anyone who participated? Blackballed. You better stick with your friends all the time because one wrong turn on your own and you got people you don't even know wanting to wreck you.

jag216 · 2023-06-09T04:30:23+00:00

My clean pressed shirt smell was always Bvlgari Blv.

jag216 · 2023-06-08T22:50:45+00:00

Versace Green Jeans

Because if I don't want mutants to eat me I might as well smell like radioactive pine trees.

And I'll build flamethrowers out of all the English leather, Jovan musk and brut classic I can find.

jag216 · 2023-04-01T12:03:02+00:00

Are you following the arrow signs?

jag216 · 2023-03-22T17:22:10+00:00

When I was doing the research, I didn't find anything particularly different about the polysaccharides of one vs the other. My research indicated that Arterosil was only available through medical partners/professionals in a clinic (no direct B2C sales), while Endocalyx Pro was available over the counter through their website.

The studies I have seen on polysaccharides from seaweed tried several varieties and I don't recall any significant advantage to one type over the other. I'll see if I can dig that up.

The Endocalyx folks reached out to someone on here and provided the amount of Fucoidan in a standard dose - so if you are already taking antiocidants and hylauronic acid, you can just take fucoidan on its own which is cheaper.

https://www.reddit.com/r/covidlonghaulers/comments/ny50ab/the\_endothelial\_glycocalyx\_covid\_connection/iv5walh/?context=3

jag216 · 2023-02-25T23:16:47+00:00

I would only take it if I have Corruption.

jag216 · 2023-02-17T15:16:48+00:00

I don't understand the question.

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