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....
The Paradox An earlier blog focused on the “renin-aldosterone paradox” in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS). The renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS) regulates blood volume and a whole bunch of...
Could COVID-19 studies already be providing clues about what went wrong with the long haulers and people with post-infectious chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), fibromyalgia and other diseases? Two articles in the New York Times – a feature length one,...
A couple of weeks ago Health Rising posted a kind of wakeup call for the COVID-19 long haulers. Borne out of decades of experience with ME/CFS, it was admittedly a pretty harsh piece – not easy to take in. An Open Letter to the COVID-19 Long Hauler Community...
“If you look anecdotally, there is no question that there are a considerable number of individuals who have a post-viral syndrome that in many respects incapacitates them for weeks and weeks following so-called recovery. They report symptoms such as brain fog,...
A barrage of "long hauler" COVID-19 media stories plus several large studies and registries tracking how people with COVID-19 fare over time provides hope for the long suffering and neglected chronic fatigue syndrome community that their disease will finally be taken seriously.
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