Recent studies indicate that the coronavirus is triggering many new autoimmune and neurological diseases. That's good news for chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS)
Amy Proal digs into the new EXPLORE technology that Timothy Heinrich is using to find deeply buried viruses in long COVID. Plus, chronic fatigue syndrome gets an enterovirus study of its own.
A Swedish study finds that when infected with the coronavirus people with chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) experience more Epstein-Barr virus reactivation than healthy controls
Low cortisol is "hugely predictive" for long COVID. Epstein-barr virus reactivation, T-cell exhaustion and other immune abnormalities are as well. Each has also been found in chronic fatigue syndrome.
Studies thus far indicate the long COVID and chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) may be exhausting the body in similar ways via viral persistence, autoimmunity, circulatory and blood issues and small fiber neuropathy.
Study suggests that students with a less flexible immune response were more likely to come down with chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) after getting infectious mononucleosis.
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