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
A triple antiviral drug combination attacking both the coronaviruses and herpesviruses in long COVID score some impressive results in a very early trial.
The Itaconate Shunt Hypothesis – Could it Explain the Energy Problems and PEM in ME/CFS?
The Itaconate Shunt hypothesis could explain why an infection produces so much fatigue, brainfog, postexertional malaise and other symptoms in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS)
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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