“So here comes the immune system. What are we doing for it? Well, it's inflammatory. It's over activated. And it's basically in hyperdrive. One of the 10 commandments of immunology is the immune system is antigen driven. It doesn't just turn on because it wants to turn on, it is turned on because something pushed the ‘on’ button.”

“The number one symptom that people present with when they've got Long Covid or pernicious anaemia or iron deficiency is fatigue. So that is across the board in all three conditions. And then the second most common symptom is shortness of breath, palpitations, dizziness, fainting, difficulty sleeping, brain fog, pins and needles joint pain, depression and anxiety…”

“We’re trying to develop clinical trials ourselves, to look at this combination of clinical point testing, where we can actually do that very robust analysis of saying, what's going on in terms of blood gases, what's going on in terms of bicarbonate, what's going on in terms of pH? How is that affecting patients at rest and in movement, and how does that correlate with symptoms?”

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“Mindfulness is one of the things we do. Basically, the idea is to allow people to feel like themselves and not to allow this painful, unsettling reality to divert from that. Because even when we suffer, and we do suffer - all human beings, or listeners of this podcast - it's never really perfect, and sometimes it's really horrendous… We are still ourselves.”

“So we know that the clots are much more resistant to proteases that normal clots are - that's kind of expected. They're not totally totally resistant, otherwise you'd really be in trouble, but they are significantly more resistant. And the consequence is that therefore they hang around, they can go and do bad things..”

“So the hypothesis that I had here was that Long Covid patients seem to have this constellation of symptoms that were resembling some kind of immune disturbance. So I thought that if we actually looked at underlying T cell responses to the virus, we could find a pattern that differentiated these patients from those who completely recovered after. As an immunologist, it kind of screamed let's look at the T cell response.”