Long COVID - Lingering Spike Protein
- Gary Moller
- Nov 19, 2025
- 6 min read
Updated: Nov 20, 2025
Long COVID, lingering spike protein, and why the story is far bigger than the media is willing to tell
A new study has come out showing persistent T-cell activation and traces of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in tissues up to three years after infection.
Here's what the study finds, summarised for you in Plain English by me, plus my own observations from my clinical experience:
Unlocking the Mystery of Long COVID
Why Some People Stay Sick
Have you ever had a cold or the flu, felt really sick, and then slowly got better? Most of the time, that's how it works. But for some people who get COVID-19, the sickness doesn't just go away. They can feel unwell for weeks, months, or even years afterward.
This is called Long COVID, and it's a big mystery that scientists are working hard to solve.
Imagine your body is like a castle, and your immune system is the army defending it.
When a bad guy (like the COVID-19 virus) attacks, your army fights back. Usually, once the bad guy is gone, the army stands down. But with Long COVID, the army stays on high alert, or maybe the bad guy is still hiding somewhere!
What Did Scientists Do?
In this study, a group of scientists wanted to understand why Long COVID happens. They studied 24 people who had COVID-19 a while ago — some still felt sick, and some felt better. They used a super-special full-body scan, like an advanced X-ray, to look inside their bodies.
Before the scan, they gave everyone a special "tracker" liquid. This tracker was designed to light up certain "fighter cells" in the immune system called T cells, when they were very active. T cells are like the special forces of your immune army, and they get busy when there's a threat.
What Did They Find?
When the scientists looked at the scans, they found some really interesting things:
Busy Fighter Cells Everywhere! In many people who had COVID-19 (even those who said they felt fine!), the tracker lit up in lots of places. This meant their T cells were still very active in areas like their brain, spinal cord, bones, nose, throat, lungs, heart, and even their gut (stomach and intestines). Compared to people who never had COVID-19, these areas were much more active.
Connecting Activity to Symptoms The scientists noticed a pattern:
If the fighter cells were super active in the spinal cord and gut, those people were more likely to have Long COVID symptoms.
If fighter cells were very active in the lungs, those people often had breathing problems that wouldn't go away.
It was like the body's army was still fighting a battle, even if the main war seemed over.
The Big Clue: The Gut! Because the gut showed so much activity, the scientists decided to take a closer look. They carefully took tiny samples of tissue from the lower part of the gut from five people who had Long COVID symptoms.
And guess what they found? They discovered tiny pieces of the COVID-19 virus hiding inside the cells of the gut tissue! This was amazing because they found these virus pieces up to almost two years after the person first got sick with COVID-19. This also explains why many patients who are struggling with Long COVID have gut issues.
What Does This Mean?
This study gives us some really important clues about Long COVID. It suggests that:
The virus might be hiding: Even after you feel better, tiny bits of the COVID-19 virus might stay hidden in different parts of your body, especially your gut.
Your immune system stays on alert: Because the virus is still lurking, your body's fighter cells (T cells) might stay active and confused, causing all sorts of symptoms.
This research is a huge step forward in understanding Long COVID. It helps doctors and scientists figure out why people feel sick for so long and, hopefully, will lead to new ways to help them get better!
A Clinician's Observation
But there's a missing piece here — one so large it should be front and centre in every discussion.
Read the two articles here:
A clinical observation that is impossible to ignore
In our clinic, I have yet to see a single case of genuine Long COVID in an unvaccinated person who caught the infection naturally.
Not one.
And we've all had COVID now. Every one of us, jabbed or unjabbed. Some had a rough week in bed. Some lost taste and smell. Some bounced back quickly. But the unvaccinated recovered the way you would expect after a seasonal viral insult.
Where the long, strange, chronic patterns appear — the dysautonomia, the heart rhythm instability, the neurological disturbances, the endless fatigue, the immune chaos — is overwhelmingly in those who received the mRNA injection.
This is not an opinion. It is the reality of who walks through the door.
A pattern of this strong demand for investigation. Instead, we get silence.
The spike protein: the common denominator
Whether delivered by the virus or the injection, the body is instructed to produce the spike protein. It is the same toxin, just arriving through different routes.
My opinion, based on how this thing behaves biologically, is clear: the spike protein looks like a product of Gain of Function research. This is not the result of a bat and pangolin having an amorous moment in a wet market. The structure, behaviour, and tissue-affinity of spike protein does not resemble something that evolved purely through nature.
But here is the crucial distinction:
Natural infection exposes the body to the virus, which largely remains in the airways and gut.The injection forces the body to produce spike protein inside tissues that were never meant to see it — including the heart, brain, liver, blood vessels, and reproductive organs.
This difference alone explains why the vaccinated have disproportionately suffered chronic, systemic symptoms.
In an infection, the virus must fight through natural barriers. In injection, those barriers are bypassed entirely.
Also, and this is important:
Repeated vaccination with the mRNA that makes spike proteins, weakens a person's immune defences. This allows any subsequent exposures to the virus to escape detection. This allows it to grow in the vaccinated body, and to stay there for much longer than the normal few weeks, and for years to come, as shown in this study.
Why gut findings matter so much
The gut biopsies in the new study showed the real smoking gun: traces of viral RNA years after infection.
The gut is the most likely reservoir because:
It is immune-dense
It is warm and metabolically active
It has a direct connection to the vagus nerve
Viral RNA that stays in the body, whether it is making copies or not, keeps irritating the immune system, the nervous system, and the mitochondria. This is enough to cause chronic fatigue, dizziness, mood changes, brain fog, gut instability, and heart rhythm issues.
But again, my observations are this is dramatically worse in those whose bodies were forced to mass-produce spike proteins systemically — the vaccinated.
The uncomfortable national picture in New Zealand
Look at the trends emerging across New Zealand since 2021:
Excess all-cause mortality climbing
More heart conditions in younger people
Neurological disorders rising
Aggressive cancers appearing more often
More unexplained collapses and sudden deaths
Is this entirely caused by the spike protein? No single factor ever explains everything.
But to pretend the mRNA injection — the most powerful delivery system for making spike proteins in a person's cells — is innocent — it is irresponsible.
A toxin is a toxin, regardless of the delivery system. And we have delivered this one at scale to 90% of the population.
So where does this leave us?
The study confirms what many have known all along:
COVID is not fully cleared in some people. Spike protein is highly disruptive to human biology. The immune system can be left stuck in a chronic fight. And the injection amplifies these risks dramatically.
But here is the good news.
The body can still heal. It always can. If we give it what it needs.
Inflammation must be reduced.
Mitochondria must be supported.
The gut must be repaired.
The autonomic system must be calmed.
Movement must be gradual, consistent, and not exhausting.
Proteolytic enzymes, citrus-peel bioflavonoids, NZ blackcurrant, humic, and fulvic compounds, nutrient-dense food, sunlight, resistance training, proper sleep, targeted red-light therapy — these tools help the body finish the job that was never completed.
We cannot change the past, but we can support healing in the present.
Conclusions
Long COVID is real for many. But the full picture has been distorted. What we are seeing is not simply "post-viral fatigue". It is the biological fallout from a spike protein that never belonged in human bodies — whether from a lab-modified virus or from an mRNA platform forced onto us at breakneck speed.
We are only beginning to understand the consequences.
We are learning as we go how to develop effective remedies. This is despite a wilful medical blindness to the truth.
We are beginning to understand enough to help people recover — naturally, steadily, and effectively. Unfortunately, we still have much to learn. There are no miracle cures. Not yet, anyway.
Thank you for a clear and informative article, very helpful to share with friends and family who can't understand why they are consistently unwell and who keep taking the injection. I feel for them.
This article is hopeful, helpful, and wonderfully positive for those with Long Covid disabilities.
There would be transparency of data, if there was nothing to hide. This whole thing is like the old P T Barnum dictum, if something is just too big an evil and a lie, it is much, much harder for people to wake up to it than if it was a little one.