Long Covid nearly broke me. Now I’m curing fellow sufferers Matt Rudd Dr Ben Sinclair, a super-fit GP, became so ill after contracting coronavirus he could barely move or talk. Now he has opened pioneering clinics fighting a disease that afflicts more than two million people in the UK. (£)https://www.thetimes.com/life-style...e-me-now-im-curing-fellow-sufferers-8x9mr6b2p Archive https://archive.ph/LBFSF Advertorial for a quack.
They have got it right about the need for rest. The rest of it - dietary changes - low histamine, gluten free, microclots, cold water therapy, red light therapy, are all anecdotal, and presented here as helping people, but not curative. Is it quackery? It's certainly not evidence based, and much of the improvement individuals report could be natural improvement. But I think it's worth researching these treatments.
Can others access this? The page won't load for me. I've been having problems with archive.ph recently and wondering if it's the same for others.
Alternatives that may work for Times stories include 12ft.io and printfriendly.com. I can view this story using both.
There’s some longstanding archive.today issues with certain DNS providers (particularly cloudflare but maybe others). It’s complicated and involves a disagreement between the two parties but if you’re having issues you could try using alternative DNS servers. A couple of examples https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/ https://www.quad9.net/
The Internet archive has been the target of a massive hack in recent days and some of the copies aren't functioning well.
The Internet Archive (who run the Wayback Machine at web.archive.org) is confusingly different from archive.today (and their other urls like archive.ph) so I don’t think that’s the issue people are experiencing https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.today
Someone sent me this link for it https://www.thetimes.com/article/1a...4?shareToken=7c4dbfedcf35f9b03f4faf2b0c5a27a0
No, he talks about things like lowering inflammation and getting people "back into a healing state", plus the importance of rest, but he doesn't claim cures. Various phrases like "some of Sinclair’s patients are seeing light at the end of the tunnel." etc.
He went into private practice as he couldn't cope with the pace of a NHS general practice. Nothing wrong with that. But compared to other private LC specialists he's seriously overpriced. Not sure this is the best way to help LC patients?! The curing bit is likely headline writers.
Maybe it’s cynical of me but perhaps it depends on his target market? Providing a premium service to premium customers who believe in shall we say, unproven technologies.
