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What Is the Role of Palmitoylethanolamide Co-Ultramicronized with Luteolin on the Symptomatology Reported by Patients Suffering from Long COVID? A Retrospective Analysis Performed by a Group of General Practitioners in a Real-Life Setting

Pirro M, Ferri L, Piccioni L, Bellucci AM, Bartolucci F, Russo A, Piga A, Ciaramaglia PL, Lucangeli M, Russo AM, Cuzzocrea S, Evangelista M. Nutrients. 2023;15(17):3701.

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This study tested palmitoylethanolamide together with luteolin. Its results cannot be assigned to palmitoylethanolamide alone. More combination studies.

Design
Observational study
Subjects
Patients of nine general practitioners in the Rome area with symptoms after COVID-19; the number is not in the abstract
Dose used in the study
Co-ultramicronised palmitoylethanolamide with luteolin; dose not in the abstract
Duration
Not stated in the abstract
What was measured
Patient-reported symptoms: pain, anxiety and depression, fatigue, brain fog, loss of smell and taste, overall health status

What the authors reported

All patient-reported symptoms improved with supplementation, especially pain, mood, fatigue, brain fog and smell and taste.

Limits of this study

Retrospective, no control group, no blinding, and the abstract gives no patient numbers, no dose, no duration and no effect sizes. Without a control group, improvement cannot be separated from natural recovery over time. The authors themselves call the results preliminary. The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Source

PubMed 37686733 · doi:10.3390/nu15173701

Entry checked against the abstract on PubMed on 2026-10-19. The dose shown is the dose the researchers used. It is not a recommendation. How to read this page.