How triathlete doctor with long Covid changed her diet, had oxygen and light therapy, and more, to beat it after 3 years and get back back to competing
- Hyperbaric oxygen and red light therapies, supplements and a low-histamine diet featured in elite triathlete Dr Tamsin Lewis’ recovery from long Covid
- The wellness entrepreneur, who founded the Wellgevity platform in part to help long Covid sufferers back to health, also prescribes a strong dose of self-care
The impact of long Covid is staggering, and yet it remains an enigma. Scientists still do not know what causes people to suffer Covid-19 symptoms for more than 12 weeks after diagnosis, or why it affects some and not others.
A recent study estimated that long Covid affects around 6.2 per cent of Covid-19 sufferers; that is about 40.8 million people, on the basis of the World Health Organization’s global estimate of 660 million confirmed Covid-19 cases.
Based in London, The British medical doctor, mother, and elite sportswoman – she was the Ironman UK 2014 Champion and a former pro triathlete – is also a wellness entrepreneur.
She is the founder of a platform called Wellgevity, an integrated medical and health service that specialises in functional medicine, a root-cause approach to health.
“Rather than sticking a plaster over the top of whatever symptoms you have, it is investigating the different systems that may be involved in driving that dysfunction that then appears as disease,” she says.
