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[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

I eat fermented foods daily. 1-4 tbsp of sauerkraut, kimchi, fermented beets, stirred into veggies.

In randomized trial, high fermented food diet raised gut microbial diversity + dropped 19 inflammation related proteins in blood. High fiber diet alone did not shift diversity.

[SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @COVID19_disease]

Two scientists, Fiona Smaill and Zhou Xing, have developed AeroVax a nebulizer that turns vaccines into a breathable mist you inhale for just 2 minutes, delivering immunity directly to the lungs where many viruses first enter the body.

[Jon Douglas @atranscendedman]

Johns Hopkins studied 11 hamsters and found SARS-CoV-2 caused lasting cardiac dysautonomia, shifting from early vagal surge to exhaustion, then post-acute reactivation.

Early immune or mitochondrial stress blockade prevented it.

https://t.co/86VzgI7ZDa

[Danielle Beckman @DaniBeckman]

Great to see @VirusesImmunity last paper highlighted at @NatRevImmunol. One of the strongest pieces of evidence yet for autoimmunity in #LongCOVID.
Not proof that autoimmunity explains all neurological Long COVID, but it's getting harder to dismiss as one important mechanism.

[ossobold @ossobold]

Kaygılı biriysen sana verebileceğim en basit tavsiye şu: Her şeyi biraz daha hafife almayı öğren. Görüşmeye gidiyorsan kendini kanıtlamak için değil, deneyim kazanmak için git. Bir işe başlıyorsan sonucu düşünerek değil, keyif alarak başla. İnsanlarla tanışıyorsan hayatının kaderini belirleyecek kişiler gibi görme. Çünkü kaygı, olaylara yüklediğimiz aşırı önemden beslenir. Her şeyi ya kazanacağım ya kaybedeceğim noktasına taşıdığında zihnin yorulur. Hayatın her anını bir sınav gibi yaşama. Bazen sadece denemek, öğrenmek ve yolculuğun tadını çıkarmak yeterlidir. Rahat olan insanlar her zaman daha net düşünür ve daha doğru karar verir.

[Mike Hoerger, PhD MSCR MBA @michael_hoerger]

The PMC county-level COVlD map has been updated w/today's CDC data.

Very High🔥🔥
▪️Guam
▪️Southeast Idaho
▪️Southeast Alabama
▪️Lorain, Ohio
▪️Waldoboro, Maine

High🔥
▪️Waco, Texas
▪️Lexington, Kentucky
▪️Lancaster, Pennsylvania

We've posted Monday's report early.

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[Utkarsh Sharma @techxutkarsh]

If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this.

Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how.

Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:

[Último emo vivo @concurseirolixo]

Vi um cara no IG falando que o método de estudo dele é olhar pra parede por 30min sem mais nenhum estímulo e depois estudar por 2h e repetir até bater a meta diária. Pomodoro diferenciado..

[PolyBio @polybioRF]

Dr. Amy Proal last week: “When people get an infection, there’s a huge assumption that it just clears after their symptoms go away… Little amounts of the pathogen [can persist] in parts of your tissue, parts of your nerves—where they can still drive inflammation and directly hijack the functioning of your mitochondria.”

[Guenter GR @GrGuenter]

Die bisher beste Long Covid Studie wurde nun veröffentlicht, mit überraschenden Ergebnissen die neue Therapieansätze ermöglichen. Vereinfacht gesagt: Long Covid wird (in den untersuchten Bereichen) von Autoantikörpern im Blut verursacht, die dann sehr wichtige Teile des Gehirns angreifen und eigentlich alle Symptome erklärbar machen.

Wichtige Erkenntnis: Long Covid Patienten dürfen keinesfalls Blut spenden denn es scheint übertragbar zu sein über jene Autoantikörper im Blut!

Toller Artikel, verständlich geschrieben:
https://t.co/GDxqontAb1

[Danielle Beckman @DaniBeckman]

Happy to share that after a prolonged peer-review process, our review covering the major Neuroinflammatory events in #LongCovid was accepted today for publication at @Transl_Psych from the @NaturePortfolio! Coming soon, but preprint available here: https://t.co/Pa1ME9eRpT

[Jon Douglas @atranscendedman]

Syracuse University, 13,899 U.S. adults. Long COVID symptoms tracked with lower life satisfaction, happiness, and hopefulness.

The more symptoms people had, the worse wellbeing fell, with brain fog and depression or anxiety most tied to the drop.

https://t.co/K55tME1AUV

[Vipin M. Vashishtha @vipintukur]

Could #LongCOVID be leaving behind early fingerprints of Parkinson’s disease?

➡️ In a 16-country study of >11,000 participants, people with LongCOVID showed significantly higher rates of multiple prodromal Parkinson’s-like features—including loss of smell, constipation, daytime sleepiness, dizziness, cognitive problems, urinary symptoms, depression, and dream-enactment behaviors. 1/

[Danielle Beckman @DaniBeckman]

Bad news: many kids under 8 never received the original Wuhan #COVID vaccines. Their immunity was shaped mostly by Omicron infections. New data suggest the "Cicada" variant (BA.3.2.2), now re-emerging in several countries, may be particularly good at evading immune responses.

[Frank Lipman MD @DrFrankLipman]

Most people think rest = sleep. Not true. Your body needs 7 kinds of rest — physical, mental, emotional, social, sensory, spiritual, and creative. Miss one and you still feel exhausted. Longevity isn’t about crashing harder… it’s about resting smarter every day

[Mike Hoerger, PhD MSCR MBA @michael_hoerger]

Brain retraining does not fix blood vessels.

[U.S. Surgeon General @Surgeon_General]

Millions of Americans live with infection-associated chronic conditions and illnesses, including long COVID, ME/CFS, and Lyme disease–associated chronic symptoms; conditions that are often debilitating, misunderstood, and under-recognized.

In a new Clinical Infectious Diseases viewpoint, CAPT Iskander and Dr. Haridopolos of the Office of the U.S. Surgeon General call for making these “invisible illnesses” visible through patient-centered care, stronger surveillance, multidisciplinary management, and continued research investment.

The article emphasizes the importance of validating patients’ lived experiences while advancing evidence-informed care to improve outcomes for people living with these complex chronic conditions.

[nature @Nature]

An antiviral pill has, for the first time, been shown to prevent COVID-19 in people exposed to the SARS-CoV-2 virus

https://t.co/OgfUZ00Hd4

[Kayla Barnes-Lentz @femalelongevity]

Protocol update: I'm in gut re-optimization mode. I had a nearly perfect gut test, then took antibiotics, which reduced my sIgA (the antibody that lines your gut and acts as your first line of immune defense). Lower sIgA = more susceptibility to opportunistic bacteria.

[Jon Douglas @atranscendedman]

Researchers studied 40 people with Long COVID brain fog.

A probiotic did not improve cognition overall, but helped those with worse starting cognition, alongside gut bacteria shifts and higher acetate and propionate.

https://t.co/x6xyFYzLhu