A high percentage of seratonin is produced in your small intestine. This regulates breathing, heart rate, the Digestive Nervous Sytem (DNS). If you are like me and many others yout food intake, type, what causes bloating, what digests, and so on has changed and is a problem..

Serotonin is low to very low causing misregulation of the Vagus nerve in the brain. Also, causing diaruption of signaling for production of seratonin.

Train wreck. Symptoms of all this.... fatigue, memory loss, effects on organs down regulated by the Vagus nerve, loss of attention, inability to focus and so on. Sound familiar.

In severe situations depression occurs at the minimum or depression then suicide.

I am new to this platform. They will not let me post yet or otherwise I would link everthing ai wrote to mulyiple in each topic, published, refereed, journal publications.

You can find if you search key word (s) strings, no commas, just spaces and all words relevant in the specific topic word string.

One day they will let me post.

I have had Covid, recouted it with my journal notes, 12 times since December 12th, 2020. I have Covid Reactive Viral Arthritis. This started in December 2021. VReA is only supposed to last two to six weeks with the longest extreme cases (very rare) last about two years. I had three pulmonary embolisms March 2023 and on as well as one deep vein thrombosis (groin to bottom of ankle) and four shallow vein thromboli. I had Covid four times in 2023. I had Long Covid 12 times in all and overlapping itself four times in 2023. The last cut short to less than two weeks. The prior long Covid cut to about 60 days.

New published research papers in 2023. Nicotine, not tobacco, in the form of a patch, gum, or pouch.

First, there is a dose response by person. Probably metabolism, weight, and many other factors.

One study dosage was a 7 mg patch. It did nothing for me, 10 days. I adjusted rate per day upward and changed form to gum. Bingo.

After a couple weeks dose/response testing myself, I found my rate which produced maximum positive daily, repeatable effect.

Nicotine is a bit like vitamin C. If you get too much it may cause some nausea or jumpy type short term (minutes to hour) symptom.

My daughter is positive for Covid (lost smell and taste, plus other symptoms). JN.1 tests for rapid are not out yet. This week CDC stated 86% of cases in the U.S. are JN.1.

Point, she used one Zyn (what I prefer) at 6 mg. She had been sick three days from first symptom onset. It made her nauseous and she only kept in her cheek a short time. She also got a Copenhagen buzz (what we called it back when I used Copenhagen).

That was last yesterday afternoon. Before bedtime, she said she was able to smell a little. This morning she smells and tastes and is feeling better. She is going to get some gum (4 mg) and try it and then cut in half and try. With gum, just chew a bit, then put it in your cheek. This absorbs in blood stream versus swollowing when chewing the gum which can cause nausea. The patch makes my wife sick to her stomach. A third piece of 4 mg gum is ok.

Point two: indirect effect of nicotine; major impact reducing flares from CVReA. Now manageable. Another side effect, increased focus, clarity (above when long covvid ends).

Worried about the use of nicotine. Good more recent research has shown the addiction was other products in cigarettes.

Tobacco is in the Solanaceae (common name: nightshade) family. The nicotine producers. These include tomato, potato, pepper, eggplant, tomatilla are the major vegetables in this family. There are no addictions here. Our human cells have many nicotine receptors specific to nicotine or broad type receptor which accepts nicotine and is a pathway for other molecules.

I am sorry for misplelling and typing issues. I try to correct, but fine motor skills and spelling have been seriously effected by Covid.

Why 12 times? On July 31, 2020 I was in a bad car wreck. I had a very significant TBI. Research shows this allows in Sars CoV-2 until my brain blood barrier and brain is healed.... I developed Long Concussion Syndrome. I had never heard of it.

It sounds like Covid and Long Covid and acts like the brain portion of Long Covid.

Hope this helps.