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Paper in Nature late 2023 people with long covid are more likely to have low morning cortisol levels in the early morning periods. People that are healthy have a huge spike in the morning, people with long covid have very low levels of cortisol. Can’t just use cortisol we need to work with biologics and drugs that might correct the cycle. Ashwagandha might help. But what is causing cortisol to be low? Coinfection and viral persistence?
https://www.youtube.com/embed/6SBpf-UpO3Y?start=143&end=225
Dr. Ikiko Awasaki with 91% accuracy can differentiate between people with LC and people that dont have LC based on morning cortisol levels. Is it adaptive due to a body change or if a cortisol deficiency is driving the pathology. Working theory is adaptive. If cortisol was driving this steroids would fix it.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/vo7fZyLAiCs?start=2259&end=2347
Increased likelihood but either could have sexual dysfunction reported more in men, hair loss reported more in women. Women with long covid are more likely to have extremely low testosterone levels than men with long covid. Even saw a correlation where the lower the testosterone went, the more severe the associated symptoms became. Men were more likely to have low estrodial and lower it went the worst symptoms become.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/UnFZ9ZyJ1nI?start=1442&end1516
Its an immunologic challenge that is a little unique but not totally unique that can open a door to a direct insult to your heart kidneys etc or leave the organs alone and throw off a controlling system like the endocrine system. Endocrine system is often thrown off menstrual, low testosterone, low thyroid, neuropsychiatric problems, all sorts of things.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/Z_uHEQvZxK0?start=547&end=662
Why does hormone imbalance happen? When your immune system changes due to sickness, some of those changes are modulated by hormones, when your hormones are thrown off enough you will start to be symptomatic from it.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/7E7cMhn9bAc?start=43&end=127
Insulin deregulation
https://www.youtube.com/embed/7E7cMhn9bAc?start=558&end=666