{"id":64034,"date":"2026-03-19T12:45:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T01:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=64034"},"modified":"2026-03-19T12:45:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T01:45:34","slug":"the-covid-effect-when-the-blood-does-not-lie-interview-with-the-first-lady-of-nutrition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=64034","title":{"rendered":"The COVID Effect: When The Blood Does Not Lie &#8211; Interview With The First Lady Of Nutrition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-64035\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/The_COVID_Effect.jpg\" alt=\"The COVID Effect\" width=\"1100\" height=\"592\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/The_COVID_Effect.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/The_COVID_Effect-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/The_COVID_Effect-1024x551.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/The_COVID_Effect-768x413.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Continually breaking new ground in integrative and functional medicine, Ann Louise is a top nutritionist who was years before current trends like Paleo and Keto. She is internationally recognized as a pioneer in dietary, longevity, environmental, and women\u2019s health issues. She is an award-winning New York Times bestselling author of over 35 books on health and nutrition including diet, detox, women\u2019s health, men\u2019s health, perimenopause, menopause, beauty and the environment. Described by Self Magazine as one of the Top Ten Notable Nutritionists in the United States, thousands of nutritionists, health coaches, and practitioners have benefited from her work.<\/p>\n<p>Ann Louise Gittleman Website<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"sjBweSbDqd\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/annlouise.com\/about\/meet-ann-louise\/\">Meet Ann Louise<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Meet Ann Louise&#8221; &#8212; Ann Louise Gittleman, PhD, CNS\" src=\"https:\/\/annlouise.com\/about\/meet-ann-louise\/embed\/#?secret=qoejmaB9rs#?secret=sjBweSbDqd\" data-secret=\"sjBweSbDqd\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>About this episode:<br \/>\nIn this enlightening conversation, the First Lady of Nutrition sits down with Dr. Ana Maria Mihalcea, board-certified internal medicine physician and award-winning author. Over the past several years, Dr. Mihalcea has been examining the blood of patients suffering from mysterious, unexplained symptoms including long-haul COVID, using dark-field microscopy. She says she has yet to see a truly normal blood sample since the onset of COVID. What she\u2019s observing is raising important questions. In this discussion, she explains how dark-field microscopy differs from traditional blood testing and why it can reveal patterns that standard lab work may miss, including blood clumping, strange self-assembling particles, and other abnormalities that may help explain persistent symptoms. Ann Louise and Dr. Mihalcea also explore possible contributing factors and why some people who never contracted COVID or received the vaccine may show similar findings. They also discuss emerging approaches being explored to support recovery\u2014including EDTA therapy, nattokinase, methylene blue, DMSO, grounding, and more. If you\u2019re someone who is struggling with unexplained symptoms\u2014particularly after COVID infection\u2014this thought-provoking conversation offers insights you won\u2019t want to miss.<\/p>\n<p>Interview:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/anamihalceamdphd\/p\/the-covid-effect-when-the-blood-does\">https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/anamihalceamdphd\/p\/the-covid-effect-when-the-blood-does<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continually breaking new ground in integrative and functional medicine, Ann Louise is a top nutritionist who was years before current trends like Paleo and Keto. She is internationally recognized as a pioneer in dietary, longevity, environmental, and women\u2019s health issues. She is an award-winning New York Times bestselling author of over 35 books on health &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=64034\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The COVID Effect: When The Blood Does Not Lie &#8211; Interview With The First Lady Of Nutrition&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips","category-vaccines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64036,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64034\/revisions\/64036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}