Alan Levinovitz

It's no surprise that every single religion and cultural tradition has taboos around food, has food rituals.

And so these are deeply personal features of our life.

They're scary.

They're vulnerable.

We are vulnerable when we eat.

We are vulnerable when we go to the doctor.

And especially if someone is sick,

And they've been accused of faking or if they're sick and they've been told it's all in their head or if they've been sick and they're experiencing extremely intense physiological symptoms and someone tells them that it's just their anxiety, but they know that this is nothing like their anxiety or whatever it happens to be.

And then, of course, there's the flip side.

And I know you're all too familiar with this, Michael, but what?

When people resolve something.

So if someone's been struggling with their weight for years and then they go on the keto diet and start doing CrossFit and all of a sudden they feel better than they ever have in their entire life and health conditions disappear and it feels almost miraculously effortless.

They're like, holy crap, this is incredible.

I'm going to evangelize this.

And this goes for everyone.

The people who are doing the mind-body stuff with long COVID as well, they feel like that too.

So just because someone's evangelizing some sort of intervention doesn't mean it worked or didn't work or anything like that.

I would say one thing though, and this is why I was drawn to the mind-body stuff in long COVID.

With dietary interventions or with pharmaceutical interventions, some people with long COVID claim they have great success with low-dose naltrexone or metformin, things that have not been proven either.

But when you say the low-dose naltrexone helped me,