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affects people of all ages and includes a myriad of post-acute and long-term adverse health effects caused by the infection.

A recent Science Perspective highlights the efforts made to understand this growing public health concern, what is known about the condition, and its wide-reaching effects on the risk of developing other chronic diseases.

Learn more on : https://scim.ag/6ei

Looking forward to meeting amazing researchers in our field, Resia Pretorius, Professor Doug Kell, and many others at our first ! Please DM us your questions!
Many thanks to IBRO (International Brain Research Organization), Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, the Nuffield Department of Women's and Reproductive Health and the University of Oxford for making this possible!

WE'RE ON WOMAN'S HOUR THIS MORNING

Sean O'Neill, senior writer at The Times, and our Dr Charles Shepherd will be interviewed by Emma Barnett on BBC R4 'Woman's Hour' this morning (Monday, 23rd May). The programme starts at 10am.

Listen on the BBC iPlayer here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0017k6x

Here's the R4 announcement :

1.3 million people is nearly 2% of the UK population.

UK survey suggests 1.3 million have long Covid Fatigue, loss of smell and shortness of breath are the most frequently reported symptoms.

Goebel and colleagues transferred antibodies from people with fibromyalgia to mice and showed that the mice then developed greater sensitivity to pain and weakness and they became less active - which suggests that reducing those antibodies might be therapeutic in fibromyalgia patients.

JCI - Passive transfer of fibromyalgia symptoms from patients to mice 2Pain Research Institute, Institute of Life Course and Medical Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom.

We have reached our crowd-funding target!!! Thank you so, so, so much for your amazing support and generous donations! We are so excited to start our clinical research programme; you can be sure that we will update you along the way! Together, we can make a difference.

This article (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2021.08.011) links in nicely with this part of the Oxfordshire ME Group for Action talk.

Sources of energy for Neurons Morten Group.pdf

An interesting paper discussing how exercise induces a decline in epithelial tight junction integrity:

Exercise regulation of intestinal tight junction proteins - PubMed Gastrointestinal distress, such as diarrhoea, cramping, vomiting, nausea and gastric pain are common among athletes during training and competition. The mechanisms that cause these symptoms are not fully understood. The stress of heat and oxidative damage during exercise causes disruption to intesti...

Could excessive exercise cause more harm than good?

Excessive exercise training causes mitochondrial functional impairment and decreases glucose tolerance in healthy volunteers Flockhart and colleagues investigated the dose-response relationship of exercise training and found that excessive training causes mitochondrial impairment and reduced glucose tolerance in healthy volunteers. Mitochondrial ROS production was reduced, thereby maintaining total oxidative stress. In a....

A recording of our Oxfordshire ME Group for Action talk on our and new projects is now available to watch on YouTube!

Karl Morten : Talk on M.E. Research 18th Sept 2021 : OMEGA Support Karl's work and research by making a contribution here :https://mortengroup.org.uk/fundraisingDr Karl Morten from the University of Oxford Morten Gro...

The slides from the Oxfordshire ME Group for Action meeting yesterday are available to view online: https://bit.ly/3EA3iT1. We hope to provide you with a recording soon!
There is still time to donate to our crowd funding appeal. We are already half way there - We only need £15,000!

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Omega talk.pdf