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...
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 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 –...
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 ...
Every now and then my mouth gapes open with I read a paper. While the limitations of this paper must be noted – a small sample set involving three case reports – its conclusion – a very rapid return to health of people with severe long-term COVID...
So many possibilities…Is it the mitochondria? Or the blood vessels? Or the liver? Or plasmalogens? Or viral reactivation? How about viral-induced inflammation? Brainstem dysfunction… It’s both exciting and overwhelming to see so many possibilities show up for...