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Never been so terrified by a countdown… or so relieved by an anticlimactic ending!
Japan just had its own version of the Hawaii missile scare. At around 12:40, an emergency alert was broadcasted warning of an imminent magnitude 9.9 earthquake off the coast of Hokkaido.
A magnitude 9.9 earthquake, if it happened, would be the strongest earthquake ever recorded, releasing approximately 22 times more energy than the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake.
Fortunately just minutes later the earthquake alert was withdrawn and confirmed to be a false alarm. But for those few minutes, people across the country held their breath bracing for a potentially catastrophic earthquake that ultimately never came.
Kira Morin retweeted
"A 2024 study estimated that 400 million people around the world have long COVID1, with an annual economic burden of around US$1 trillion..
[It is suggested that] around 6% of adults have long COVID..
Evidence points to dysregulated immune cells, chronic low-level inflammation and autoantibodies — immune cells that attack the body’s own tissues [in the long COVID patients]..
SARS-CoV-2 persists in some form.
It can also reactivate other dormant viruses3, in particular those in the herpesvirus family..
Studies have also shown that small blood vessels and the endothelial cells that line them are damaged.
The autonomic nervous system, which regulates heart rate and breathing, is frequently affected and the gut microbiota altered.
Mitochondria, the cell’s power plants, are often damaged; this could contribute to symptoms of fatigue..
[Dr. Scheibenbogen says that] what would happen to us if we ran a marathon happens to ME patients from climbing two stairs."
Indeed.
'When do infections lead to long COVID? Scientists close in on triggers and treatments for post-viral syndromes'
nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
Kira Morin retweeted
I am better than I was but not where I want to be. I still am unable to work due to my symptoms, even if I tried I would probably make myself worse or relapse. My labs look better, my plasma is now clear, people say I look better which is good, im grateful for that. I am still producing a large amount of covid spike antibodies though. I am still in large debt from my Japan trip, and running out of money to live off of. Debating whether to sell my family home for income. So my mental health hasn't been the best.
I need to see a neurosurgeon in Maryland to evaluate my unstable neck at C1 and C2 with a CSF blockage at C1. He is out-of-pocket and cost $1250 for initial eval. If anyone can help me out with that it would be much appreciated 🙏🏼❤️🙏🏼.
Please share if you can. All money will go to my debt from Japan trip and to see this specialist, travel expenses to Maryland.
givesendgo.com/LKmedicalfund…
Kira Morin retweeted
Dolly Parton on supporting the LGBTQ+ community (2016): “I do not believe we should criticize and judge other people. If you’re the fine Christian you think you are, why are you judging people? I just think we should be more loving, more caring. We are who we are. If you’re gay, you’re gay. If you’re straight, you’re straight. You should be allowed to be how you are and who you are”
Kira Morin retweeted
Four in ten. Never, ever listen to anyone who says Long Covid is rare. It is not.
Four in ten healthcare workers worldwide who were infected with SARS-CoV-2 during the pandemic developed long covid, and a quarter still had symptoms after a year, a report has found
bmj.com/content/394/bmj-2026…
Kira Morin retweeted
BBC: 'I'm exhausted just being alive, says long Covid sufferer'
'Darren Parkinson said he contracted the initial virus in 2021 and now struggles to leave his home as a result of the after-effects.'
bbc.com/news/articles/c62v41…
75% there. Thanks to everyone who’s given or shared, I’m most of the way to $8,500 for the McCairn-Edogawa protocol, a treatment that could change everything for me.
If you can help close the gap, or just share this with someone who might, it would mean a lot.
Kira Morin retweeted
⚡ #LongCOVID “brain fog” is beginning to reveal a measurable electrical signature in the brain.
➡️ EEG recordings from people with LongCOVID showed abnormal activity in the sensorimotor cortex, including a weaker post-movement beta rebound and slower alpha rhythms. 1/
Proof again - PEM is real.
Pretty stunning clip I’d never seen before comparing patients with post exertional malaise to healthy controls after 25 min of excercise — fantastic vid to watch to better understand #LongCovid & #MECFS
Kira Morin retweeted
Chronic illness steals things people never see.
Careers. Friendships. Savings. Confidence. Time.
An unappreciated tough part of chronic illness can be pretending to be okay because the world only understands the illness it can see it.
Pale skin. Hair loss. Hospital beds. That’s the image most of us have of what illness looks like … because that’s what movies and TV taught us.
But millions of people live with autoimmune disease, chronic pain, and other conditions that don’t show up on the outside. And we routinely make them prove they’re suffering before we believe them.
I’m one of them.
I have a post-viral autoimmune condition. I’ve been housebound for 3 of the last 5 years. In any photo you’d see of me, I’ll look fine because I will always look fine in a photo. That was never proof I was okay.
I need help getting to a treatment in Japan that isn’t available to me here. Even $5 would make a difference 🙏
gofund.me/267bd75e8
Kira Morin retweeted
Je vais remettre une couche pour les bouchés à l'emeri...
LA SPIKE EST AMYLOÏDE ET AMYLOÏDOGÈNE.
Elle présente des séquences capables de former des dépôts dégénératifs et d'induire des pathologies appelées AMYLOSES (Alzheimer, Parkinson, Creutzfeld Jakob, Fibrinoïdes...)
C'EST DONC LA SPIKE DU VIRUS ET LA SPIKE DES INJECTIONS ANTI-COVID...
Car ce ne sont pas les 2 prolines en 986 et 987 qui vont changer quoique ce soit... cela ne concerne absolument pas les séquences dégénératives de la Spike.
DU COUP, LA QUANTITÉ PRODUITE NE CHANGE PAS GRAND CHOSE CAR LES AMYLOSES SE DÉVELOPPENT DANS LE TEMPS PAR CASCADE AUTOCATALYTIQUE.
Il en suffit de très peu pour enclencher une cascade dégénérative avec amplification du phénomène dans le temps... comme dans une avalanche. Il suffit d'une boule de neige, d'une pente et de particules de neige capable de s'agglomérer.
Cela peut prendre des années mais c'est bien réel...
DU COUP, LE VIRUS - LE SARS-CoV-2 - EST DANGEREUX AU MÊME TITRE QUE LES INJECTIONS ANTI-COVID...
Même dans une forme "bénigne", si vous êtes contaminé, alors vous êtes spiké... et la cascade amyloïde peut se déclencher.
Et, elle se déclenche... de toute façon... même avec l'HCQ ou l'IVM.
DU COUP, ON N'A AUCUNE IDÉE DE L'ÉLIMINATION EFFECTIVE DE LA SPIKE DE L'ORGANISME - peu importe son origine.
Ce n'est pas parce qu'elle n'est pas détectée qu'elle n'est pas présente dans l'organisme sous forme de dépôts dégénératifs.
À ce jour, les amyloses induites par la Spike ne sont toujours pas traquées...
ET DU COUP, IL PEUT Y AVOIR UN EFFET CUMULATIF : SPIKE VIRALE + SPIKE VACCINALE...
Infections répétées = danger...
Injections répétées = danger...
Infections + injections = danger...
Bonne journée
Kira Morin retweeted
Vagal tone activity acts as a top down inflammatory control instance where its efferent neurons lower inflammation via activation of nAch receptors on macrophages
Switching it on and off reliably is one key pathway to resilience as else, any inflammatory insult will yield a highly disproportional inflammatory pattern, which can lead to chronic inflammatory phenotypes
This cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway could potentially be suppressed in patients suffering from certain chronic gut diseases like IBS or IBD, as indicated by studies showing impairment in the brain regions associated with the ANS/Vagus
Electrical vagal stimulation, Meditation, Breathing exercises are all good
Additionally, high dosage thiamine, choline, pantothenic acid are critical nutrients needed for Ach production
Others have reported that direct mitochondrial agents like CoQ10 or PQQ could increase their HRV, which is an interesting bioenergetic angle
Kira Morin retweeted
Thank you to everyone who is faster than me on a Saturday AM (😂) for noting that the full webinar is now up!
Thank you again to @RTHM_Health for setting this up and to my wonderful co-panelists. I truly learned a lot and hope everyone listening did too
youtu.be/Na5znc92ylY?is=ZmBM…
Kira Morin retweeted
Brain fog in #LongCOVID may not be one disease—but several distinct brain disorders.
➡️ Using advanced MRI network analysis, researchers identified two neurobiologically distinct subtypes of LongCOVID with cognitive symptoms.
➡️ One subgroup showed objective gray matter loss in the cerebellum and putamen, while the other had no detectable structural abnormalities, highlighting striking biological heterogeneity. 1/
Kira Morin retweeted
🔴 I think it is time to start taking seriously the disease model we have been proposing for Long COVID and ME/CFS.
For years, we have argued that persistent viral reservoirs may be the initiating event connecting many of the mechanisms observed in these diseases:
-Chronic antigenic stimulation.
-Immune hyperactivation.
-T-cell exhaustion.
-Reactivation of latent herpesviruses.
-Chronic inflammation.
-Loss of immune tolerance.
-Autoimmunity in genetically susceptible individuals.
A new study has now identified the kind of cellular response that this model predicts:
Persistent, virus-specific, cytolytic and exhausted CD8⁺ T cells directed not only against SARS-CoV-2, but also against EBV and CMV.
This is not simply “an immune system that forgot to switch itself off.”
These lymphocytes recognize viral antigens.
The more important question is:
What continues stimulating them?
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