Paradigm Shift for Long COVID (and ME/CFS?) Plus the Friendly Fire Hypothesis: Could Autoimmunity Be Behind it All?
Paradigm Shift for Long COVID Patients (and people with ME/CFS)? The dramatic announcement that Congress is going to appropriate over a billion dollars (a billion dollars!) to study the COVID-19 long haulers was just one sign that long COVID is being taken seriously....
Bad B-cells, Malfunctioning Mitochondria and “Could Happiness Help?” The IACFS/ME ME/CFS Zoom Conference Pt. III
The 2020 IACFS/ME Zoom conference found evidence of B-cell abnormalities that might be tied to autoimmunity, problems with mitochondrial energy production and a finding which suggested that having more uplifiting events may actually help.
A COVID-19 Long Hauler Case Report Points To ME/CFS, Autoimmunity – and IVIG Treatment
COVID-19 creates an ME/CFS-like condition characterized by autoimmune autonomic nervous system problems that are partially resolved by IVIG in a long hauler
Could a Rare Autoimmune Disease Help Explain the Autonomic Issues in ME/CFS, POTS and Fibromyalgia?
Autoimmune autonomic ganglionopathy is a very rare disease. So why feature it in a blog on chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), fibromyalgia (FM), and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS)? Because it could provide a preview of the future. All these diseases...
Starving for Energy? and The Immune Hole That Produced ME/CFS?- The IACFS/ME Conference Reports Pt. II
An immune hole may have predisposed people to getting chronic fatigue syndrome and another study is underway to assess COVID-19 patients. A breakdown in the citric acid cycle is impairing energy production and producing increased lactate as well. Plus the blood of ME/CFS patients appears to contain a substance which triggers cells to use up energy and produce lactate....Lives Interrupted Latest Story
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