There are certain building blocks that the body can’t make much of as we get older. Plasmalogens are one. There is maybe one page in my med school chemistry book about plasmalogens; doctors aren’t taught how plasmalogens fit in with the body’s repair process and how they give the body resilience to deal with whatever comes up – a virus, an injury, stress.

When people had COVID and the big cytokine storm inflammation event, plasmalogens put out the fires of inflammation. Plasmalogens are sitting in the cell membranes like a bunch of firemen. If a fire breaks out, they put it out immediately so the inflammation doesn’t destroy things inside the cell. When plasmalogens are not there, you don’t have resilience. To keep with the analogy, you burn down. You die or get into some chronic disease situation from which you can’t recover.

Resilience is your body’s best friend.

Babies get plasmalogens from mother’s breast milk; plasmalogens help their brain and the rest of their neurological system develop correctly. There is only a minimal amount in the diet but our body learns how to make them. After age 50, a lot of people can’t make them in adequate amounts anymore and things go downhill.

But this can be turned around.

One woman I am working with who has long COVID began using plasmalogens four months ago. She noticed an improvement in energy, brain fog, and a greatly reduced skin rash. She’d been to a number of other practitioners, and it turns out, plasmalogens and associated nutrients made the difference. Also, she has been very diligent in eating what I call real food, not the standard, poisonous, processed food. A woman who went blind in one eye because of multiple sclerosis, recovered after 6 months of plasmalogens and can now see and read out of that eye. In another case, a woman who had dementia, lost her ability to speak, and was bedridden improved after following her personalized plan for months. She became able to speak and get around on a walker.