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The void eats food 🖤

I think this is very important!!! A fibronectin (FN) and type I collagen (COLLI) fragment signature found in plasma from individuals with hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (hEDS) and hypermobility spectrum disorders (HSD)!!! A blood test in the works? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aj…

While shopping for groceries I passed by a young couple who were kissing in the aisle and I thought to myself they must love each other.   And a few aisles over I passed another young couple who were both masked and I thought to myself oh, they must really love each other

Louise C H Paula Knight Lizzy H People shouldn't leave hospital in a worse state than when they arrive. This is what happens often to pwME because they are not properly accommodated due to a lack of knowledge & refusal to understand what people assume ME to be (fatigue, tiredness) it isn't.

Do you ever feel regretful that you didn’t mask prepandemic too? Like the amount of sickness and health issues you could have saved , and spared your poor body.

A message to young biologists: People will tell you not to ‘anthropomorphize’ other animals. Ignore them. Every time you interact with another animal, imagine what they are thinking. Put yourself in their position. 🧵

Every shift for the past 1 1/2 years since I started at my job, I have eaten in my car. No matter what the weather (and it gets cold in the winter!), I eat out there to protect my health & that of my co-workers. The last couple of shifts I’ve noticed a marked

Can someone explain to me why it is good to be upset at someone eating a dog or a cat, but not if they are eating a pig or a chicken? I've been trying to find any important differences between those things but have come up empty so far. Anyone?

I don’t think enough people know this: Please be aware of what you’re taking is anticholinergic.

When a compassionate & caring A&E nurse says this, it shows there are huge gaps in knowledge & misunderstandings about the nature of ME & PEM. This is why severe ME/CFS don’t dare attend hospital even for serious conditions. It’s not the nurse’s fault, ‘the system’ is to blame.

Just want to share the positives of my NHS cardio appointment yesterday to give those with Long Covid (& also those who are up-to-date with the covid evidence base) some hope. A thread 🧵

5. Asks me about vaccines; which I’d had & any reactions. First clinician to mention vaccine side-effects. I was grateful to have an open conversation about it. Was transparent about any issues they’d seen in clinic. A clinician that talks about both covid & the vaccine harms 🦄

🧵... For anybody wondering how long you have between a negative PlusLife result and an infectious case, I think I just found an upper bound courtesy of my daughter, and it's only about 12-14 hours. I have the kids every other weekend now (after being divorced due to my COVID

Stephen Marer Matt Burke Medicine is not science, it predates science by many centuries. Much of the tangible benefit of medicine came from a different epistemological framework, one in which “accepted practice” was treated with the same reverence as facts (2/)

#WorldPatientSafetyDay UKCVFamily call for medical support in the form of; 🫂Establishment of detailed NICE guidelines for adverse reactions to vaccines 🫂A dedicated research team to discover the nature of adverse reactions 🫂a dedicated clinic for treating those affected by

If someone says their protocol is "clinically proven" what standards of evidence do you expect? Please comment on things like: Sample size Study design Outcome measures Thresholds for clinically meaningful results Replication trials Etc #longcovid #postvac

The effects of whole body vibration (WBV) and exercise on fibrinolysis in men pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20686900/ "WBV does not augment fibrinolytic activity in healthy men. However, WBV combined with squatting exercise increases fibrinolytic activity more than exercise alone"