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Becca Kennedy, the former lead of a multistate long Covid specialty group for Kaiser Permanente, has a controversial theory. She believes long Covid belongs to a family of chronic conditions that occur when the brain gets stuck in a feedback loop of fight or flight. www.wired.com/story/the-pa...

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Becca Kennedy is a family doctor. She has no specially in chronic illness. This group has no one who specializes in chronic illness. It’s pseudo science to the nth.

they've been saying this for decades about POTS, but after decades and thousands of people trying brain-retrain efforts, it's not a recommended treatment. because there's no evidence it does anything for the underlying problem.

WIRED contributor Alan Levinovitz has spoken with a dozen formerly bedbound sufferers who credit brain retraining with partial or full recoveries from severe long Covid and other conditions. Hundreds more have shared testimonials about a range of similar approaches. www.wired.com/story/the-pa...

#1: Peer Reviewed and from Mass General with precision phenotyping! But let us ignore or hide these results- like immune evasive variants! This from 10 M bsky.app/profile/tomk...

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News Release 27-May-2026 "Long Covid burden continues to grow, doubling current surveillance estimates, multi-hospital study shows: Mass General Brigham-developed AI tool identified over 10 million cases undetected by existing diagnostic systems" www.eurekalert.org/news-release... #LongCovid 1/

The guy who has repeatedly written about why biophysical disabilities are not real and people are faking in articles and a book did it again! And you let him “There is no such thing as Long Covid” Alan Levinovitz yesterday to a journalist with Long Covid on Twitter www.celiac.com/celiac-disea...

celiac.comA Review of: The Gluten Lie - And Other Myths About What You Eat by Alan Levinovitz, PhDSeveral years ago, Dr. Levinovitz contacted me by telephone, asking if he could interview me then, and in subsequent calls, for a book he was writing about gluten consumption. Assuming he, as an acade...

Right but what you seem to miss is, if we're going to believe patients, we must also believe the patients for whom these approaches haven't worked or have actually made them worse. If you want to believe patients you can't cherry pick patients to only support your preferred narrative.

You could have chosen to present a balanced narrative based on the full breadth of the facts, but instead you wanted to sound edgy and sensational and discarded any evidence that was counter to your narrative, so, frankly you deserve the criticism you're getting

It's not a theory, there is no scientific evidence for it. These hypotheses have been proposed regularly over the last 100 years for post-viral illnesses and they consistently fail to find any mechanistic evidence along the lines of brains getting stuck in feedback loops that cause the symptoms.