A landmark 2023 comprehensive review in Nature Reviews Microbiology explicitly identified mitochondrial dysfunction and ATP depletion as core drivers of Long COVID fatigue
Hence they stimulate the accumulation of lipid intermediate metabolites [lysophosphatidic acid (LPA), diacylglycerol (DAG), acylcarnitines and ceramides], which promote defects of the insulin signaling pathway, exacerbate IR and stimulate several signaling pathways related to inflammation and oxidative stress, creating a second vicious-cycle of a feed-forward effect [17, 2123]
It also has anti-inflammatory effects, decreasing the pro-inflammatory cytokines TNF-, IL-6, MCP-1 and IL-1 in serum and liver, and inhibiting the TLR4/NFkB pathway
"I truly believe that this is not going to do much for anybody," she says
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