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...
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 –...
Could the Blood Vessels…That Feed the Blood Vessels- Be Ground Zero for Long COVID and ME/CFS?
Earlier, Klaus Wirth and Carmen Scheibenbogen found a way to explain the brain issues in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) without resorting to neuroinflammation. Their multipart series of ME/CFS hypotheses brought the most thorough potential explanation of...Surprising Findings Dot Day 2 of the Keystone Long-COVID Conference
We continue to take a deep dive into the “Long COVID and Post Acute Sequalae of SARS CoV 2 (PASC): Pathogenesis and Treatment” first-ever international conference on long COVID. Long-COVID research was always going to be a bit messy. Take a look at...
“Your Blood is Black”: My ME/CFS Experience with HELP Apheresis in Germany
“Your Blood is Black” “Your blood is black”, said the nurse. “And thick, very thick. We see this with all our Long Covid and ME patients, their blood is very dark and thick. It is not like this with our other patients who have apheresis.” I am now 45...StudyME
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