{"id":9209,"date":"2024-02-16T14:50:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T19:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=9209"},"modified":"2024-02-16T14:50:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T19:50:00","slug":"long-covid-can-destroy-your-ability-to-exercise-or-do-simple-tasks-now-we-may-know-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=9209","title":{"rendered":"Long COVID can destroy your ability to exercise or do simple tasks \u2014 now we may know why"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">By\u00a0Social Links for Adriana Diaz Published\u00a0Feb. 16, 2024, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Extreme fatigue and difficulty exercising are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/02\/07\/lifestyle\/1-in-4-covid-patients-developed-long-haul-symptoms-study-reveals\/\">common symptoms of long COVID<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 now scientists may finally have discovered why.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While most people who test positive for the coronavirus are over their symptoms within a week or two, more research is showing that some people continue to report symptoms \u2014 and even develop new ones \u2014 three months after their initial positive test, lasting for months or even years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A&nbsp;new study,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-023-44432-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">published in the journal&nbsp;Nature Communications<\/a>, suggests that some of these symptoms may persist or worsen as those with long COVID-19 experience biological changes in their bodies after working out \u2014 most notably involving their muscles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re seeing clear changes in the muscles in these patients,\u201d Mich\u00e8le van Vugt, professor of internal medicine at Amsterdam UMC,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/1030039\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The study found that long COVID patients had extreme fatigue, changes in muscle composition and widespread muscle damage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Social Links for Adriana Diaz Published\u00a0Feb. 16, 2024, Extreme fatigue and difficulty exercising are\u00a0common symptoms of long COVID\u00a0\u2014 now scientists may finally have discovered why. While most people who test [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[289,290,323,325],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-long-haul-disease","category-long-term-effects","category-mitochondria","category-mitochondrial-effects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9210,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9209\/revisions\/9210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}