Rest = Lying Down, Eyes Closed
Because other parts of the program from England made sense, I decided to try resting every afternoon. After some experimentation, I determined that the most restorative rest resulted from lying down in a quiet place with my eyes closed.
I was surprised at the results from taking a 15-minute rest in mid-afternoon. Even that short break seemed to help, reducing my symptoms, increasing my stamina and making my life more stable. After a while I added a similar rest in late morning.
Over time, I came to believe that my scheduled rest was the most important strategy I used in my recovery. Resting everyday according to a fixed schedule, not just when I felt sick or tired, was part of a shift from living in response to symptoms to living a planned life. The experience showed me that rest could be used for more than recovering from doing too much; it could be employed as a preventive measure as well. In the terms suggested by someone in our self-help program, I learned the difference between recuperative rest and pre-emptive rest.
Surprisingly, taking pre-emptive rests greatly reduced the time I spent in recuperative rest, because I was experiencing much less Post-Exertional Malaise. The result was that my total rest time was reduced.
sometimes like an idiot i assume everyone has read bruce campbell on resting/pacing to handle post-exertional malaise affiliated with chronic fatigue. that is obviously not true! anyway here's the hot guide, i linked straight to the "schedule in mandatory complete 15 min rest as part of your day and hopefully you will get to do less surprise many hours of rest to recover" section but the whole thing is laid out pretty clearly
Researchers who discovered a mechanism that prevents B cells from attacking the bodyâs own tissues in autoimmune diseases win Crafoord Prize
"Two researchers in the US and Australia have discovered important mechanisms that prevent B cells from attacking the bodyâs own tissues in autoimmune diseases like arthritis, lupus, and multiple sclerosisâand in the process have won a prestigious prize.
Normally, the bodyâs immune system protects us from viruses, bacteria, and foreign substances. However, in autoimmune diseases, the immune system starts attacking tissues in the body instead.
Researchers had long tried to discover the cause of autoimmune diseases. But, Christopher Goodnow and David Nemazee, independently of each other, adopted a new approach.
They asked why we do not all develop these diseases. Their focus was on B cells which, together with white blood cells and T cells, are the building blocks of our complex immune system.
âThey have given us a new and detailed understanding of the mechanisms that normally prevent faulty B cells from attacking tissues in the body, explaining why most of us are not affected by autoimmune diseases,â says Olle KĂ€mpe, member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and chair of the Crafoord Prize committee that awarded the pair 6 million Swedish kronor ($600,000).
Neutralize B cells
In recent years, physicians have started to experiment by using existing drugs to neutralize B cells for patients with severe autoimmune diseases, including lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and multiple sclerosis, which has proven to be very effective at improving their quality of life.
Thanks to this yearâs Crafoord Prize Laureates, we have gained fundamental new knowledge about what is happening in the immune system during autoimmune disease attacks.
âThis also paves the way for development of new forms of therapies that eventually can cure these diseasesâor might prevent them in the future,â said one professor of clinical immunology at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences...
More details from the video, since the article glosses over the particulars:
"The laureates discovered what is now called B cell tolerance.
When B cells develop in the bone marrow, not all of them are perfect. To remove the faulty ones, a mechanism starts, in which defective cells are programmed to destroy themself through apoptosis.
The laureates discovered two new mechanisms that are used if some of the bad cells are left. Re-editing, where the immune system alters the combination of receptors, and anergy, that silences B cells with self-reactive receptors.
The laureates were able to demonstrate that these mechanisms sometimes fail. This means that faulty B cells can cause an attack on the body's own tissues â leading to autoimmune diseases.
Thanks to the laureateâs discoveries, doctors like Anders Bengtsson soon felt able to start treating patients with lupus, arthritis, multiple sclerosis, and many other autoimmune diseases, with medicines that eradicated B cells.
Anders Bengtsson: "I'm very happy that B cells has gotten so much attention because of the laureates. I have seen my patients getting so much better and getting a better life."
Autoimmune patient: "Today, I feel very good. I really have hope in the research that it will revolutionise things and perhaps even cure it all. Thatâs what I want, hope for, and believe in.""
-Article via Good News Network, April 6, 2025. Video via The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, January 29, 2025.
got blood work done today and i just remembered a time i got blood work done as a teen. after the nurse drew like 6 vials of the stuff, i asked him âis all that mine?â and he said ânot any moreâ and walked off
Meanwhile, no person ever: âYou should think about giving up your insulin/antiretrovirals/beta blockers/anti-rejection drugs/prosthetic legs/daily multivitamin, because using those your whole life is bad for some reasonâ
People who are fully healthy, fit and neurotypical seem to think they are that way because theyâre doing something right that the rest of us havenât thought of, and not just because they got lucky
Speaking of the luck of the non-disabledâŠI once terrorized a Karen who was using me to teach her entitled kid that disabled people are Other and should not be treated with respect. I told her (truthfully) that until I was twenty-eight, I wasnât visibly disabled. Then a defective chromosome that I hadnât known about kicked in. So my luck ran out. But until then, I had been normalâjustâŠlikeâŠher.Â
The sheer terror on her face as the concept of âYou mean Iâve just been lucky so far?â seeped into her brain was a thing of beauty.
People who are fully healthy, fit and neurotypical seem to think they are that way because theyâre doing something right that the rest of us havenât thought of, and not just because they got lucky
âYou are one stroke of bad luck, common viral illness, or traumatic event away from being just like meâ is honestly the most terrifying thing you can tell an abled person - and you should. I was healthy and fit and doing everything ârightâ too - right up until some inner switch flipped and my body crumbled right out from under me.
Ein Mann aus Sachsen-Anhalt hat sich mehr als 80 Mal gegen Covid-19 impfen lassen. FĂŒr seine Gesundheit sowie seinen Schutz vor einer Infektion dĂŒrfte das keinen Unterschied machen, sagt ein Infektiologe.
A man from Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, frequently travelled to the state of Saxony to get vaccinated at multiple vaccination centers in order to sell the vaccination certificates he had obtained there. In total, he received 87 doses of coronavirus vaccines. Employees of the vaccination center in Eilenburg, Saxony, finally stopped him and called the police after he had made himself conspicuous during a previous visit in Dresden. The police has started investigations against the man for unauthorized issuing of vaccination certificates and forgery of documents.
The head of the Saxonian Vaccination Commission sad that the man has neither benefits nor harm with regards to his health. After excessively repeating the same vaccination, the immune system gets so used to the trigger that it does not react any more after having built up full immunity, which is after three or four doses of vaccine, the infectiologist said.
Average person gets 2 corona vaccine shots per year factoid actualy just statistical error. Vaccines Georg, who lives in Sachsen-Anhalt and gets 87 corona shots per year, is an outlier adn should not have been counted.
So⊠this dude got the shot 87 times with no ill effect⊠in order to sell his proof of vaccinations to people who are afraid the shot is harmful so theyâre buying fake proofs to avoid those negative effects they fear⊠from a guy who has safely gotten the shot 87 times⊠right?
A recent study by Resia Pretorius and her team at Stellenbosch University in South Africa suggests that long COVID may be triggered by microclots.
A scientist in South Africa believes she and her colleagues have found a critical clue in solving the mystery of long COVID: microclots.
âA recent study in my lab revealed that there is significant microclot formation in the blood of both acute COVID-19 and long COVID patients,â Resia Pretorius, head of the science department at Stellenbosch University in South Africa, wrote Wednesday in an op-ed.
Pretorius writes that healthy bodies are typically able to efficiently break down blood clots through a process called fibrinolysis. But, when looking at blood from long COVID patients, âpersistent microclots are resistant to the bodyâs own fibrinolytic processes.â
Pretoriusâ team in an analysis over the summer found high levels of inflammatory molecules âtrappedâ in the persistent microclots observed in long COVID patients, which may be preventing the breakdown of clots.
Because of that, cells in the bodyâs tissues may not be getting enough oxygen to sustain regular bodily functions, a condition known as cellular hypoxia.
âWidespread hypoxia may be central to the numerous reported debilitating symptomsâ of long COVID, Pretorius writes.
As many as 100 million people globally have or have had long COVID, according to a study by researchers at the University of Michigan in November.
A patient is diagnosed with long COVID when the effects of a COVID-19 infection persist for more than four weeks, according to the Mayo Clinic. While older people and people with serious medical conditions are the most likely to experience long COVID, many young and healthy people have reported feeling unwell for weeks or even months after their initial COVID-19 diagnosis.
Symptoms of long COVID vary between cases, but primarily include fatigue, brain fog, muscle or joint pain, shortness of breath, sleep difficulties, and depression or anxiety.
The Department of Health and Human Services in June released new guidance in which some symptoms of long COVID could qualify as a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
In December, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued an update to its own guidance, which now considers an individual who has contracted COVID-19 disabled if any of their symptoms âsubstantially limits one or more major life activities.â
Shout-out to South Africa for continuing their A+ research despite the international communityâs racist, fear-mongering retaliation of closing their borders.
[A tweet from user at Jake Sidwell reads, âNew doctor: Youâre rather articulate about your condition. Me: Yeah. I have to be. Communicating with doctors who treat me as an unreliable witness to my own condition is second language. Itâs even harder to feign ignorance to protect an ego so big it could get me killed.â End ID.]
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