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08/18/2026

Long COVID Study Finds Major Energy Deficits in the Brain

Studies have suggested that the brain's energy levels might be low in long COVID, but we didn't know for sure.

Recently, a study seems to have answered that question. Using a technique that directly measures energy availability, it found a big drop in energy production right in the part of the brain that Jarred Younger believes plays the key role in ME/CFS and long COVID.

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A long COVID study examining, for the first time, energy levels in the brain, found them to be depleted in a large region called the cingulate cortex.

08/14/2026

The Fatigue in ME/CFS and Long COVID Comes From the Brain … Or does it?

A recent NIH brain and muscle study concluded that the fatigue in ME/CFS is being produced by the brain.

Other studies, though, suggest that the damaged muscles in ME/CFS/long COVID could be tweaking the brain.

Actually, both could be happening. A recent finding suggests that an infection could be producing both.

One thing has become clear - the brain and muscles are both intimately connected in these diseases - and need to be studied together.

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An NIH paper proposed that the fatigue in ME/CFS is caused by the brain. That might not be the end of the story, however.

07/25/2026

The UK’s Long COVID Triple Treatment Trial (Not Surprisingly) Bombs

The UK's big shot at uncovering treatments for long COVID failed dismally, with all three drugs/drug combos not producing clinically significant results.

This extends a rather unsettling streak of at least a dozen large long COVID treatment trials that have gone belly up.

A closer look at the UK trial left one asking, however, if it ever really had much chance of succeeding.

Similarly, an overview of the large long COVID trials done so far, makes one wonder if we could have ever expected much from them.

The good news is that the long COVID field is learning, and the newer trials feature better options, are more targeted, more interested in uncovering subsets and in exploring mechanisms.

In short, we can expect better results.

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A large UK Long COVID treatment trial that assessed 3 drugs/drug combos utterly failed. It's not alone - none of the 14 or so largish long COVID trials have produced good results. Perhaps it's not a surprise, though. Check out the blog to learn why.

07/13/2026

Stepping Backwards – the U.S.’s Attempt to Politicize Scientific Research: An Editorial

The Trump administration has proposed new rules that will, among other things, give political appointees the last say on which research grants get funded, and would allow the NIH to defund ongoing studies with evidence of malfeasance.

In this editorial, I propose that these changes are not good for medical research and could pose particular threats to diseases like ME/CFS and long COVID. Please note that the ability to comment on these new rules ends tomorrow night.

Health Update – continued slow improvement! Hot Button Post – the reason Health Rising almost never posts on political issues is that they hardly ever intrude upon medical research. In this case, the Trump administration’s proposed rule changes to the conduct of medical and scientific research...

06/18/2026

Visible At Last? Are Long COVID and ME/CFS Tissue Diseases? The PolyBio 2026 Symposium Pt I

PolyBio's 6th symposium was its best yet. In part one of a two-part series, we heard about their $10 million Long COVID Cure project, which they believe will cut 15 years off what would otherwise have been an interminably long search for treatments.

Then it was onto a series of presentations focusing on tissue studies (arteries, lymph, retina, gut, brainstem), which suggested that if you want to get to the heart of these diseases, you've got to go deep into the tissues.

Finally, we heard some good early news about two gut treatments that appear to be having an impact.

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Geoff’s Narration The GIST The 2026 PolyBio Spring Symposium – Pt I One way to gauge the health of a field is by the number of conferences/symposia it supports. From the looks of things, the long–COVID and ME/CFS fields are moving up: The International ME/CFS conference – May 7-8 […]

06/10/2026

Hitting the Target? ME/CFS and long COVID T-Cell Researchers on Uncovering the Precise Drivers of the Illnesses

Researchers are increasingly confident that precision medicine - the ability to match a treatment to your biology - is coming for these diseases.

T-cell researchers are at the top of that list. Not only are they now sure that these diseases are driven by pathogens/autoimmune processes, but they've also begun using sophisticated technologies they believe will allow them to uncover the precise drivers of these illnesses.

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Dr. Selin and company believe they can solve one of the key mysteries of ME/CFS and long COVID: exactly why the T-cells are getting pummeled.

06/03/2026

Whether long COVID is an autoimmune disease has been one of the great questions facing the field.

Finally, we have an answer. It is, at least, in part. A recent study provided dramatic evidence that autoimmune processes are significantly affecting many long COVID patients - and it bolstered autoimmune work in ME/CFS as well.

There's still a lot of work to do - tracking down which autoantibodies are doing the damage is not going to be easy in these complex disorders, but it is doable, and it is one place this field will likely concentrate on after this study.

The goal, as always, will be to precisely match LC and ME/CFS patients to the appropriate autoimmune treatment.

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https://www.healthrising.org/blog/2026/06/02/autoimmune-long-covid-subset/

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A major study determines that autoimmunity is causing major symptoms in long COVID ultimately laying the groundwork for precision-guided treatments

05/20/2026

Solving the ME/CFS and Long COVID Jigsaw Puzzle: PrecisionLife’s Steven Gardner Talks

PrecisionLife believes they can break the code on ME/CFS and long COVID and they're back with new, much larger ME/CFS study.

Instead of 14 genes they found over 2,000! In a talk with CEO and founder Steve Gardner, he explained that ME/CFS is highly complex but solveable, reported that PrecisionLife has identified over 40 drugs that they think may help, noted that ME/CFS and long COVID are similar but different, and pointed to a fascinating process whereby PrecisionLife is identifying "resilience genes" that a) protect people from coming down with ME/CFS and b) could help people recover from it. Check it out

Geoff’s Narration The GIST “It’s (ME/CFS) a jigsaw puzzle, right? And we have a couple of the pieces that I think are going to be really important to framing out the rest of the picture.” Steve Gardner, CEO and co-founder of PrecisionLife I spilled the beans early in my talk […]

05/15/2026

Sticky Nets and Damaged Blood Vessels: A Long COVID Subset is Born?

Could poor blood flows be at the heart of long COVID? The deepest dive yet into the blood vessel issue found microclots, "sticky nets", and wounded blood vessels in a large subset of young people with long COVID. Validating the findings could lead to a range of new therapies being tested.

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A long COVID study uncovers a subset of patients with microclots and signs of blood vessel damage who, if the findings are validated, might benefit from rarely used treatments.

05/14/2026

A Novel Immunomodulatory Strategy for ME/CFS + A Paradox Resolved?

Last year, a researcher called this pathway the "dominant metabolic pathway" in ME/CFS.

This year, an Open Medicine Foundation study uncovered a problem in it that could leave the cells in ME/CFS "inert and unresponsive".

Not only that, but this problem could potentially explain a paradox that has bedeviled the ME/CFS field for over a decade.

That's pretty good stuff, but the icing on the cake is that the Open Medicine Foundation is using a "novel immunodulatory strategy" in their new clinical trials program to see if they can fix the problem.

Things are moving fast. It all goes to show that you never know what's going to pop up. Check it out.

A novel immunomodulatory treatment approach to ME/CFS appears and a paradox could be resolved....

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