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Music and Sound Therapy to Reduce Long-COVID and CFS Symptoms

Music and Sound Therapy Has Real Benefits For thousands of years music and sound have been used in traditional healing and meditation practices across many cultures.  In the past few decades, modern scientific studies are confirming that there are legitimate therapeutic benefits to such practices.  This is a huge boon to patients because: music and sound are drug-free, so there is little concern about negative interactions sound is almost free as content is widely available on the internet benefits require minimal effort, mostly just finding some quiet time to relax and listen it is proven helpful for just about everyone with hearing, possibly even for some without For me, trying it was an obvious choice as I had nothing to lose and any benefits I received, however small, would stack on top of my other methods. Pleasing music and sounds have been shown to: lower cortisol, a stress hormone associated with depression, anxiety, binge eating, nausea and more lower blood flow to th...