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my pet theory is that long covid is associated with an autoimmunity to the ACE hormone. If covid uses the ACE2 receptor to enter your cell, the spike protein mu
by qbxk 3y ago
my pet theory is that long covid is associated with an autoimmunity to the ACE hormone. If covid uses the ACE2 receptor to enter your cell, the spike protein must resemble a portion of the ACE hormone, and it's easy for your immune system to "miss" and attack the wrong thing. Once you are "allergic" to your own hormones, you have two problems: 1) chronic immune response and inflammation and 2) lack of effectiveness of ACE due to it being removed or disabled by your immune system
- candiodari 3y agoWith a disabled RAAS pathway, you die. Quickly. And that's ignoring that there is a mechanism normally preventing this. And what happens when you become allergic to your own hormones is called a cytokine storm ... and it's serious enough that you can say comfortably that no doctor will miss it.
- qbxk 3y agowe're not talking about disabling an RAAS pathway though, we're just talking about interfering with it and making it less effective. it's a gradient of many shades
- csours 3y agoAccording to medical professionals I trust, Long Covid is likely to be multiple diseases with multiple causes, and any individual can have some of each. Autoimmune reactions may be the longest covid; cell/organ damage is another; it is also possible that people may have less-than clinically detectable viral activity, or viral activity in some "pocket". I'm not a medical professional, this is not medical advice.