LONG COVID

Muscle energy depletion linked to Long Covid

Researchers from the Amsterdam University Medical Centre have discovered that it is an energy availability problem within the muscles that is responsible for fatgue in people with Long Covid.

The constellation of lingering symptoms - fatigue, shortness of breath and brain fog - is collectively called Long Covid.

The commonest symptom is extreme tiredness or fatigue that is worse after even mild exertion. The cause of tiredness was identified as muscle cells not receiving sufficient energy from mitochondria - a good analogy for mitochondria can be - if a cell is a car, then the mitochondria is its engine which is required to provide the car with energy to function.

The Hindu 14January2024