“Hydrogen water restored my energy!”

Long COVID left Kristin Herman feeling exhausted, achy and out of sorts. Nothing she tried made a difference—until she started sipping this healing tonic

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WHEN KRISTIN HERMAN'S doctor said her annual physical, including routine blood tests, indicated she was the picture of health, the Phoenix, Arizona, writer felt equally happy and confused. “I'm thrilled to be healthy, yet so frustrated that I feel so unhealthy,” she thought as she left the office.

“As I entered my mid-40s and inched closer to perimenopause, I started feeling more drained than normal, despite maintaining my diet, activity and sleep routines,” she recalls. “But my fatigue wasn’t simply feeling like I didn’t get a full night’s sleep. I had a deep and dragging kind of tired that felt like I was running on empty all the time.

“My mind was also terribly fuzzy, and in addition to moments of forgetting why I entered a room, losing my train of thought or forgetting simple words mid-conversation, I couldn’t focus on anything. The duo of brain fog and fatigue left me feeling decades older, and I slipped into a health-related midlife crisis, frustrated that my energy and clarity had vanished.

Searching for answers “The doctor checked my thyroid, hormone and iron levels, along with other routine blood tests. But all the results were normal. That was a relief, yet still frustrating because I wanted to find a reason for the exhaustion as well as the joint stiffness I began waking up with every morning.

“The doctor mentioned incorporating stress-management techniques like meditation or yoga and also hormone therapy as something to consider if my symptoms worsened, but I wasn’t ready to begin hormone replacement, so I started looking for alternative remedies.