Dr Ben King 🌏

Long Covid & PE recovery.
Geography Teacher.
Sustainability & Climate Change.
BSc Env Science & Physics (Stirling).
Soil Erosion PhD & Geog PGCE (Exeter).
Tuba.

[Dr Ben King 🌏 @benking01]

@visible_health @KiActiv 🚨 Nope. Too much Moderate movement across the day on Thursday...

...so the #EliteHRV and #KubiosHRV apps are signalling a #ParasympatheticSwing 🚨

EliteHRV literally shows me the Parasympathetic Swing - The very high Heartrate Variability (HRV) and low Resting Heartrate 👇

[Denis - The COVID info guy - @BigBadDenis]

The Toll of Pediatric Long COVID

An Infectious Diseases study shows children with long COVID face a symptom burden that meets or exceed other chronic health conditions. These children report worse fatigue and sleep issues than kids with cancer or autism.

https://t.co/mRuzaT9xEv

[NASA Earth @NASAEarth]

Good news for mangrove forests! 🌳

Mangrove forests, which had been shrinking for years, began to expand in 2010. A new study using Landsat observations reveals forest gains accelerated in the past decade and have nearly offset earlier losses.

[UN Environment Programme @UNEP]

Warning signals are everywhere. The past 11 years have been the 11 hottest on record. 

In his #WorldEnvironmentDay message, @UN Secretary-General @AntonioGuterres calls for action #NowForClimate to cut emissions, protect nature, support vulnerable communities and speed transition to renewable energy.

[The Green Party @TheGreenParty]

Andy Burnham says he "can't judge" if the Israeli military's crimes in Gaza are a genocide.

The experts already have.

A UN commission, the International Association of Genocide Scholars, and leading rights orgs all agree: it's genocide.

Andy, why won't you call it what it is?

[Dr Ben King 🌏 @benking01]

7 hours at work, but only three 1-hour-long lessons to teach today, so #pacing was easier than usual.

Well-behind today's @visible_health pacesetter and genuinely no physical exertion at all 😊

And I get to leave work early on alternate Fridays 🙏

#LongCovid #LongCovidTeacher

[Dr Ben King 🌏 @benking01]

Started today fully 'Reset' and with @visible_health 'Stability', plus with #EliteHRV and @kubiosHRV also noting my 'Readiness' for Wednesday, along with perfect 'Balance' between my Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Nervous Systems 👇

All looked great 🤔 ...

[Dr Ben King 🌏 @benking01]

@visible_health @KiActiv @kubiosHRV So I just had a cheeky 25-minute #PowerNap (on top of my full night's sleep).

Just one of the many tools I'll be using today to hold myself back from over-exerting my #LongCovid body during this pre-cursor to a potential #Crash🙏

It's quite empowering to have worked this out 😊

[PenScribbler @ScribblerPen]

Excellent, very generous and detailed response thread by Dr Rae Duncan @Sunny_Rae1 detailing Long Covid research findings to date. It's worth reading for its own sake.

[Dr Rae Duncan @Sunny_Rae1]

@hannahspierMD 2/PEM - isn’t tiredness is impaired metabolic recovery with clear demonstrable abnormalities on 48hr submaximal CPET testing. I’m a member of the executive committee of the International Society of Long Covid & PAIS (ISLC). My research colleagues from the same group have 2/

[Dr Rae Duncan @Sunny_Rae1]

@hannahspierMD 1/Hannah, we have now almost 500,000 peer reviewed published research into long covid now. “Fatigue”, “post exertional malaise (PEM)” “Brain Fog” “difficulty concentrating” are not psychiatric symptoms. They have a pathological basis and clear demonstrable abnormalities 1/

[tern @1goodtern]

This rebuttal is brilliant, detailed, compassionate, intelligent, science based, and thorough.
The precise opposite of the statement she's replying to.

Please read, share, share, and then share. And also share:

[Nick's Weather Eye @NickJF75]

Looks rather ominous the deepening low out over the Atlantic heading for the UK. Fortunately it weakens heading east tomorrow, but still brings a risk of coastal gales to southern Ireland and SW UK tonight and perhaps along English Channel coasts tomorrow. Also more rain for many

[Dr Ben King 🌏 @benking01]

@visible_health @KiActiv @kubiosHRV If I'm not careful, my extreme 'readiness' will lead me into a false sense of security.

During a Parasympathetic Swing I feel invincible & 'Normal' again; bounding up staircases, not bothering to take the lift (elevator), jumping around the classroom with boundless enthusiasm...

[Dr Ben King 🌏 @benking01]

@visible_health @KiActiv ...& as ever during a Parasympathetic Swing, the @kubiosHRV app 'rewards' me with a ridiculously high Readiness figure.

This is because Kubios compares this morning's (ridiculously high) check-in HRV with all of my previous morning HRV values.

Stand-alone it misses the point 🤔

[Dr Ben King 🌏 @benking01]

@visible_health @KiActiv 🚨 Nope. Too much Moderate movement across the day on Thursday...

...so the #EliteHRV and #KubiosHRV apps are signalling a #ParasympatheticSwing 🚨

EliteHRV literally shows me the Parasympathetic Swing - The very high Heartrate Variability (HRV) and low Resting Heartrate 👇

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

I'm so proud of Sarah and the Green Party.

When the 50 wealthiest families in the UK own more wealth than the bottom 50% of the population - don't tell us there's no money left.

Let's keep growing our movement:

https://t.co/0qbagSvIYp

[Dr Elisa Perego @elisaperego78]

We must be crystal clear about a few points. Long Covid is not a "poorly understood neuroimmune disorder" with no biomarkers. It is a widely studied biological medical condition. Pathology spanning basically all body systems is well documented, with damage in situ across organs