Can our mitochondria help to beat long Covid?

[helvella]

This article is unlikely to be of much interest top those who read research papers on the subject. For the rest of us, it is quite an easy read and could be of some interest.

The disorders mentioned include ME/CFS, Long Covid, Parkinson's.

Can our mitochondria help to beat long Covid?

David Cox

Sun 26 Jun 2022 14.00 BST

Mitochondria are the body’s power plants, fuelling our cells. New research shows they play a role in many aspects of keeping us healthy – and could be the key to unlocking treatments for chronic diseases, including Parkinson’s

Article is accessible here:

theguardian.com/science/202...

This is a summary of the AXS1125 trial mentioned:

hra.nhs.uk/planning-and-imp...

[Yeswithasmile]

There are some very clever scientists. This seems exciting and loads of possibilities. Maybe even eternal youth?!! Thanks Helvella.

[TSH110]

Fascinating read, thanks for posting

[Zephyrbear]

The science may be interesting, but this is the killer sentence for me:

“We could take a healthy mouse, for example, and introduce mutations seen in Parkinson’s patients, and see what happens.”

Why should a healthy animal be taken and made ill just so they can “see what happens…” It’s not as though the mouse shares any physiological traits with a human, so whatever research that’s done will, in stages, have to move up the evolutionary ladder with other healthy animals until, eventually any treatment will have to be tried out on a human to see what happens. At which stage, it may prove to be totally ineffectual… and then it’ll have to start again.

[userotc]

Interesting but naturopaths can support/improve mitochondria and long covid - though it won't stop pharma trials and (likely harmful) drug developments!

[AmandaK]

Thank you helvella, to have this included in a mainstream newspaper is significant and hopefully will be covered much more widely.

Of course, it's only saying things that Dr Myhill has been propounding for years - if only they'd listened!

It was back in 2009 that Drs Myhill and McLaren-Howard co-wrote the paper, 'Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Mitochondrial Dysfunction', and in 2012, 'Mitochondrial dysfunction and the pathophysiology of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)', based on their clinical testing work.

They were the ones who created the Acumen tests to test mitochondrial function and other things - are these scientists re-inventing the wheel?

I do hope that Dr Myhill will be recognised (definitely honoured) in some way for the decades of tireless work she has done. And apologised to - it would be a heinous crime if that didn't happen (even though it's highly likely Dr M will eschew such attention).

[posthinking01]

Hi there - I believe that long Covid is a thyroid/adrenal problem - certainly it would appear that the Mitochondria is also powered in a healthy manner by the thyroid gland. I think these scientists are missing the point - fibromyalgia is also thyroid related. Sounds a bit of a sweeping statement but I'm afraid these scientists all work in Silos and until they all get together we will never get to the bottom of it all.

[posthinking01]

This is an interesting one:-

suzycohen.com/articles/chro...