Researchers discover physical cause of long Covid tiredness
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Researchers discover physical cause of long Covid tiredness
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#2Researchers from Amsterdam UMC and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) have discovered that the persistent fatigue in patients with long-COVID has a biological cause, namely mitochondria in muscle cells that produce less energy than in healthy patients. The results of the study were published today in Nature Communications.
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#4This connects closely with and supports Dr. Chris Palmer’s brain energy theory.
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#5> we saw that the mitochondria of the muscle, also known as the energy factories of the cell
*Ahem*, powerhouse of the cell
Jokes aside, this is a terrifying stat: "Although the majority of people infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus recover within weeks...around one in eight will get long-COVID. Symptoms in patients with long-COVID...include severe cognitive problems (brain fog), fatigue, exercise intolerance, autonomic dysregulation..."
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#7I really wonder if we will find these symptoms are caused by other viruses as well. Possibly candidate for chronic fatigue syndrome?
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#8> we saw that the mitochondria of the muscle, also known as the energy factories of the cell *Ahem*, powerhouse of the cell Jokes aside, this is a terrifying stat: "Although the majority of people infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus recover within weeks...around one in eight will get long-COVID. Symptoms in patients with long-COVID...include severe cognitive problems (brain fog), fatigue, exercise intolerance, autonom…
Even more terrifying considering we can be reinfected multiple times so we might be rolling those odds every time.
E: changed "we are" to "we might be"
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#9The title is a lot more exciting than what is actually being claimed. They say that malfunctioning mitochondria are to blame ... but there is no insight into why the mitochondria are malfunctioning.
My wife, a formerly energetic, outgoing, type A person, has been suffering from ME/CFS for 20 years. Long COVID symptoms are highly similar to ME/CFS problems, and the hope has been that the long-underfunded ME/CFS research would benefit from the research money that has come with COVID. Thus, I felt let down when I read the linked blurb.
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#10I really wonder if we will find these symptoms are caused by other viruses as well. Possibly candidate for chronic fatigue syndrome?
I think we’re in our infancy about determining root cause of most of our ailments. Your comment reminded me of this recent write up.
Adenoviruses: Causing Weight Gain and Obesity
https://www.geneticlifehacks.com/weight-loss-genetics-obesit...