May 27, 2024

A testimony and an answer. The purpose of this is for anyone suffering from the impacts of Covid or Long Covid. Please forward if you know others which can benefit.

December 12, 2020 began my Covid journey. The virus attacked every part of my body. Over the next three and a half years, I had Covid and Long Covid twelve times, then a 13th. There was severe brain, heart, lung, gastrointestinal, neural (brain and nerves), and vascular impact. A secondary disease developed called Viral Reactive Arthritis (ReA) and began after December 2022 and reoccured twice more, the last time encompassing from February 2023 until a few weeks ago. Also, the impact on my vascular system produced three pulmonary embolisms in both my lungs, one deep vein clot 34 inches long (DVT), and five shallow vein clots (SVT). I had nerve twitches, shooting pains, was unable to talk, think, work, walk, stand, had lung issues constantly dropping my pulse oxygen to the low 80% range, ringing ears, issues with clarity in my eyes, peripheral neuropathy, pain like I have never experienced which lasted days and weeks and occured over fifteen months consecutively, my hair fell out, and many others symptoms occured over the three and a half years.

After the 11th infection, a client and friend, Michael, forwarded me a discussion of how nicotine healed long Covid. Thank you, Michael. I read the published papers on the subject all occurring in 2023 and 2024. The first paper working out the hypothesis of the nicotine impact and how the nicotine functions on human disease was published in 2002. I began a treatment in October of 2023. There was no impact. So, I began a dose-reponse test to find my dosage for my metabolism and body weight. I found it at 40 to 50 mg nicotine per day over the whole day (combination of patches, pouches, and gum). Within days, my Long Covid dissappeared. The 12th infection was terrible, and I also had flu A and bronchitis at the same time from December 14, 2023, to near January 2024. It took about six weeks to get over Long Covid with the nicotine treatment. I saw two neurologists from February to May 2024. Both stated I had severe impacts from the virus and were either their worst or in the group of their worst impacted patients. After the last visit with the clinical neurologist, I had an understanding come over me that something had to change, and the conclusion was nicotine and tobacco. No, not smoking. The plant use itself in smokeless form. There is a massive impact differrence from natural tobacco sourced nicotine and the salt extracted and synthetic forms.

I was born premature and in the first 12 years of my life had many diseases and sickness typical of a premature baby. I began working at age twelve. Having the exposure in agriculture and money in my pocket, I began dipping Skoal and Copenhagen. From that point on until I was 48, I was rarely if ever sick.

At age 48, a new health insurance company made me quit dipping snuff. Within half a year and from there on, I had many viruses, including flu, GI, and general cold viruses. Then Sars CoV-2 came.

On the day of the second neurology doctor visit, I purchased a can of Copenhagen pouches and mixed them in with 6 mg Zyn pouches and gum during the day.

Immediately, on the same day, I noticed allertness I had not had. In the days and week to come, my ReA flares never returned. I got off high dose prednisone and returned to 100% of my brain ability and duration to work mentally. The first time in almost four years. The last three weeks, no pain from ReA, no PEM, return to mental ability, and many aspects of pre-Covid 19.
I have to earn my physical strength and endurance back, but I am sure, as the Lord's promises and is faithful, I will recover these also.

I know what each reader is thinking, likely, based on almost all the doctors and other individual's reeponses. Nicotine is addictive and it and smoking cause cancer.

I am going to correct this with the Lord's Truth. God made all things, and they were good, Genesis 1. Man adulterates and destroys. God made the plant family Solanaceae. This family, the nightshade family, contains many alkaloids and phyto (plant) chemicals. All plants have many phytochemicals. God made them. These nicotine producing plants include tomato, potato, peppers, eggplant, and numerous herbs and spices. Of course, tobacco is in this plant family. Nicotine is a plant alkaloid. This alkaloid protects plants from insects, bacteria, viruses, and fungi. The higher the nicotine, the better the protection. The leaves and immature fruit have the highest concentrations based on research. Different plant species within this family have variable concentrations of nicotine. Green tomatoes, eggplant, and leaves of these and other species in this family produce larger amounts of nicotine.

In the past, tobacco was used for a tea aiding stomach and health, poultices for pain and prevention of infection, infrequently smoking before great sessions of thinking and debate. Tobacco, nicotine, what God made, man adulterated and contaminated.

Nicotine protects the plants. Resverotrol protects the plant. Capsaicin protects the plant. I can go on for a long time. The study and resolution of plant disease and nutrient impact on plant health are my daily work and my training in my Ph.D. in plant pathology and microbiology. I have watched these phytochems protect or fall short when deficient for 30 years.

The impact of natural nicotine from tobacco leaves and other phytochems made such a difference over synthetic or salt extracted nicotine is so stark, that my daughter and son in law, my doctor, those in my Bible study class, and clients immediatly recognized the difference in my physical nature and thinking ability. My clinical neurologist was "shocked" by the impact. Are you addicted to tomatoes, peppers, celery, and cauliflower (yes, these also produce low levels of nicotine)? Potatoes have low levels, but do you have an addiction?

No. Do you remember when coffee was bad? Coffee is from a plant in the bitter herb family. This family produces many of the plant extracts sold today of which protected me until God gave me the solution to my serious health issues. Phytochems that protect the plant protect the human. Your food is your medicine. God made it all, and it was good.

Please recognize, with all people, all people have a proper dosage rates. What is good for one person is not good for another. Some have low tolerance of nicotine, my wifez my daughter, my son. While others have high tolerance or no impact. If anyone starts this treatmentz they should start on nicotine gum, 1 mg dose ( cut 2 or 4 mg gum into appropriate volume).

Again, the purpose of this narrative is to help people suffering from Covid and Long Covid.

Respectfully, in Christ,

Justin