Damn, Walitt and effort preference is cited. Ugh. Actually most people with ME/CFS have been found to have cortisol levels within normal ranges....
It just goes on and on. Only 5% of patients are found to have cortisol levels lower than a reference range. Here's guidance on establishing...
Mixed bag I think, with some good and some less supported points. A few snippets — I think we've also seen many people with disabling brain...
Some other quotes from this that are simply completely wrong: There was an opportunity here to change people's minds and shift opinion from a...
Criticism of the single-time point cortisol measurement in Is Low Cortisol a Marker of Long COVID? (2024, The American Journal of Medicine)
Is Low Cortisol a Marker of Long COVID? Armin Alaedini; Stafford Lightman; Gary P. Wormser Cortisol is the primary glucocorticoid hormone...
Sex ratios were comparable: 63-66% female. Age was unbalanced: assumed uninfected 33 vs PASC 46-47. No prior COVID-19: 33.4 ± 11.8 Never PASC:...
The report notes that while no definitive biomarker has been identified for long Covid and that studies documenting biological abnormalities (in...
I've made a thread for this study, so we can have a good look at the evidence. Hypocortisolism in survivors of severe acute respiratory syndrome...
From the video: 4.30 Putrino says that they have two more papers in the pipeline with more important differentiating factors - proteomics, hormone...
With regard to low cortisol, they added the following reference — Hypocortisolism in survivors of severe acute respiratory syndrome SARS (2005,...
Is that the stuff Dr Myhill promotes? I've never been inclined to try the 'glandulars' type things as they seem a bit too...er..whacky for my...
Several years ago I did a saliva cortisol test. I had problems not knowing what time to do the spit samples. My waking up and going to sleep times...
I do indeed also need rehydration, I have some ORS but a) hate the taste now after having used them over the years and b) not sugary enough and c)...
Just out of curiosity... How do you know you have low sugar in the morning? Do you have some means of testing it, perhaps the way a diabetic...
Is it me, or are parts of that list from Prof Iwasaki a bit underwhelming? Would it be very surprising if 94% of patients who said they were ill...
"We will announce a biomarker for #MECFS and #LongCovid very soon. A very interesting piece of the puzzle to unfold in coming weeks". A biomarker...
I have low cortisol but that didn't stop me getting breast cancer. It is interesting to note ( and I don't think I can quite put this into words...
I find this explanation so simplistic and all-encompassing as to not be useful. Presumably, I am a genetically susceptible individual, given I...
This paper has been cited as providing evidence of low cortisol in people with Long Covid. I had a closer look. Summary: just go to the last...
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