The all mighty Mitochondria

Long covid - ME/CFS - Spike proteins

I have a frustrating medical condition. Chronic old man syndrome *cough*

Actually, it’s known as Myalgic encephalomyelitis, or chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) but I feel like a tired old man most days. It has two names, no cures and as the name suggests it leaves those who have it plagued with fatigue.

This condition until the last decade was better known as “yuppie flu”. And it was thought to be psychosomatic and all in my head. It turns out it’s not.

Now I could have told you all this without writing a research paper. Gosh, most people I know could tell you this based on my case alone.

You see, I was fit. Very fit. Military special operations medic. Half marathons for fun. Boxing. Spearfishing. Climbing mountains and hobby bodybuilding too. I lived and breathed high performance. Harder, faster and one step further than the rest was my creed and motto. And then I stopped. Suddenly I couldn't do it anymore.

I eventually found out I had developed this illness. But no one really knew much about it, never the less on how to treat it. So I joined community groups. You know, for people with weird illnesses like this to try and find some answers and support.

In these support groups one name stood out from all the others. His name was Professor Warren Tate. A New Zealand based molecular biologist who was spearheading research to find biomarkers for my so called “yuppie flu" to prove this wasn't all in my head, or in anyone else’s head either, but that it was a very real illness with measurable biomarkers. He succeeded.

"Warren Tate investigates unexplained illnesses. | New Zealand Geographic"

Tate discovered that the ribosome can change the way it reads code. Imagine if the spaces between the words on this page suddenly shifted one letter to the left. It would become gobbledygook to you, but when this takes place in genetic code, it makes perfect sense to the ribosome, which starts manufacturing a totally different protein from the same material.

Oh interesting. So the DNA hasn't changed per se, just the way its instructions are read. What an enormously complex field of science this gene stuff is. #Epigenetics

In 2020, Tate published two papers, one with Otago associate professor Aniruddha Chatterjee, describing the physical processes underpinning ME—showing that it wasn’t taking place in people’s minds, but in their bodies. As Tate had suspected, something odd was happening in the mitochondria, the factory that produces energy within cells. In ME patients, less energy was being made, and, as if to compensate, the mitochondria were overproducing other proteins instead. The factory, instead of generating its product, was busy making more machinery.

Oh right, so my mitochondria are a wee bit broken. Gosh that sucks. How do we fix it?

*Silence.

Turns out nobody knows.

But wait, doesn't the spike protein also destroy mitochondria? Didn't Drbeen do an hour long discussion on this topic recently on his YouTube channel?

And isn't that spike protein the one being manufactured in peoples cells as a result of the latest emergency authorized mRNA gene therapies? Eeek this doesn't sound good.