Exercise Causes Muscle Damage and Energy Depletion in Long COVID
One of the dangers facing the long-COVID research field was an over-emphasis on immune functioning and an under-emphasis on metabolism and energy production. While exercise studies showed up pretty early in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), it took the field a while...
Triple Antiviral Coronavirus/Herpesvirus Approach Scores in Very Early Long COVID Testing
The Inevitable Combination Treatment Approach? Chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), fibromyalgia (FM), and long COVID are complex diseases that affect many systems and can cause a remarkable number of symptoms. It’s certainly possible that someone will get to the...
The Itaconate Shunt Hypothesis – Could it Explain the Energy Problems and PEM in ME/CFS?
Janet Dafoe has been doing an informative series of videos on the Open Medicine Foundation’s work. Her patient-centered approach – she often interrupts a researcher engaging in “research speak” to clarify in simple English what’s going on...
A Bad Blood Vessel – Neuroinflammation Connection Shows Up in Long COVID
The brain and the blood vessels. So intimately intertwined but so rarely studied together. In retrospect, that’s kind of strange as blood vessels may have more to do with brain functioning than anything else. By weight, the brain is almost a non-entity –...
Apples and Oranges? The Common Cold, the Coronavirus, ME/CFS and Long COVID
A new phrase – “long cold” – recently entered the medical lexicon. A “long cold” is what you have if you fail to recover from an ordinary respiratory virus. That idea, of course, is not news to people with chronic fatigue syndrome ...Lives Interrupted Latest Story
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