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    COVID can infect dopamine neurons, causing neuron senescence, and potentially brain fog and depression. But 3 drugs can rescue these infected neurons

    A 2024 study found that SARS-CoV-2 is able to infect dopaminergic neurons, triggering an inflammatory and cellular senescence response. Such an infection in the brain's dopamine neurons may potentially explain long COVID symptoms such as brain fog and depression, an article about the study...
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    Metformin taken during acute COVID reduces risk of long COVID by 41%. ME/CFS often gets worse after COVID, so this drug may protect from such decline

    A study found that a two week course of metformin given within 3 days of testing positive for an acute COVID infection led to 41% fewer long covid diagnoses over the following 10 months compared with people who had taken placebo. For participants who started metformin less than 4 days after...
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    Is insulin resistance the cause of fibromyalgia? In a subset of fibromyalgia patients, metformin dramatically improved pain

    A new study published in May 2019 finds preliminary evidence that fibromyalgia might be due to insulin resistance: Is insulin resistance the cause of fibromyalgia? A preliminary report The study found highly significant association between fibromyalgia and glycosylated haemoglobin (HbA1c)...
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