Aerowallah
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I'm asking, because Dr. Klimas talks about our somewhat compromised immunes...
But metabolic studies referenced elsewhere suggest CFS shows hallmarks not of system failure but of intelligent design--a form of mitochondrial hibernation or cellular self-defense in the presence of a pathogen. Though it was a bad virus in 2013 that triggered my CFS, doesn't the hibernation condition (moderated in me by my years of methylating and rebalancing) make us LESS LIKELY to over-react with cytokine storms, which seem to be responsible for the lethality of COVID-19?
Interesting also to note that more women present with CFS than men, and more men seem to be suffering the severe forms of coronavirus.
I'm sitting here wondering during a 14-day self-quarantine, after a neighbour back from a cruise coughed over me the other day. He is sick with mild symptoms, and now I am sick with ridiculously mild symptoms. I am 59, with no prior conditions BUT CFS, and never smoked or vaped. Unfortunately, this being America, we can neither of us get tested currently with the PPE/test shortages and our mild symptoms.
Whatever this is it is the first flu I have had since onset of CFS in 2013, and I am practically asymptomatic. Interestingly the symptoms from my trigger virus were worse, but not as severe as my wife suffered, and she did not get CFS. I wonder if there will be a wave of post-viral syndrome after this pandemic, especially among highly stressed city dwellers like those New Yorkers, of whom I was one, now living in an epicentre.
For interest, I dose with diatomaceous earth, Olive Leaf, Quercetin, and Elderberry and they reduce the mild fluey feeling to almost nought in 15 minutes.
But metabolic studies referenced elsewhere suggest CFS shows hallmarks not of system failure but of intelligent design--a form of mitochondrial hibernation or cellular self-defense in the presence of a pathogen. Though it was a bad virus in 2013 that triggered my CFS, doesn't the hibernation condition (moderated in me by my years of methylating and rebalancing) make us LESS LIKELY to over-react with cytokine storms, which seem to be responsible for the lethality of COVID-19?
Interesting also to note that more women present with CFS than men, and more men seem to be suffering the severe forms of coronavirus.
I'm sitting here wondering during a 14-day self-quarantine, after a neighbour back from a cruise coughed over me the other day. He is sick with mild symptoms, and now I am sick with ridiculously mild symptoms. I am 59, with no prior conditions BUT CFS, and never smoked or vaped. Unfortunately, this being America, we can neither of us get tested currently with the PPE/test shortages and our mild symptoms.
Whatever this is it is the first flu I have had since onset of CFS in 2013, and I am practically asymptomatic. Interestingly the symptoms from my trigger virus were worse, but not as severe as my wife suffered, and she did not get CFS. I wonder if there will be a wave of post-viral syndrome after this pandemic, especially among highly stressed city dwellers like those New Yorkers, of whom I was one, now living in an epicentre.
For interest, I dose with diatomaceous earth, Olive Leaf, Quercetin, and Elderberry and they reduce the mild fluey feeling to almost nought in 15 minutes.
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