"Oxygen extraction by the body’s tissues was compromised in patients who had symptoms of #exerciseIntolerance after #COVID"

"Patients are told that their symptoms are a result of deconditioning, or decline from lack of physical activity.
Our findings contradict that hypothesis."

#PostCovid #LongCovid #PEM #MECFS #corona #covid19

https://news.yale.edu/2023/12/19/study-helps-explain-post-covid-exercise-intolerance

Exercise intolerance is one symptom associated with long COVID. A new study helps explain its cause.

“We found that despite the fact that the heart was pumping oxygenated blood that the lungs were providing adequate amounts of oxygen for, the extraction of oxygen by the body’s tissues was compromised in patients who had symptoms of exercise intolerance after COVID"

#COVID19 #LongCOVID #ExerciseIntolerance @auscovid19

Source: https://news.yale.edu/2023/12/19/study-helps-explain-post-covid-exercise-intolerance

#exerciseintolerance is for the birds.

It would probably help if I ate something (cookies probably don't count). Maybe better electrolytes. Mmmmm but effort. (I say like we don't have an absolute shitton of Skratch Labs in the house.)