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Harriet Carroll: Long Covid Scientific Consultancy

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#LongCovid Scientific Consultant PhD Nutrition & Metabolism Hon Research Fellow, Lund Uni Posts: nutrition ▪ health ▪ all-things-science ▪ activism ▪ fun facts ▪ #PostVac Donations: https://ko-fi.com/drsmash Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LongCovidSC

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Harriet Carroll: Long Covid Scientific Consultancy @angryhacademic.bsky.social · Nov 14

Want help navigating the #longCOVID #postvac and related #chronicillness space? Want evidence, rather than be sold another protocol?

If so, I aim to help bring some clarity to things!

Book an appointment: lc-sc.co.uk/book-an-appo...
✉️ [email protected] (🚫please no DMs)

Long Covid scientific consultancy poster reading:
Helping bring clarity to long covid, covid vaccine injury and similar illnesses. Have you or a loved one had a COVID infection or vaccination, & things haven't been right since?
Maybe symptoms like… (symptoms pointing to an outline of a body)
Thirst, dry mouth or dry eyes
Problems thinking clearly
Tinnitus
Palpitations
Chest pain
Difficulties exercising
Exhaustion
Insomnia
Rashes
Legs change colour or swell when you stand up
Muscle/joint pain
Fingers, arms, or legs tingling
Food intolerances
Nausea
Breathlessness
...among many other things

If so, Long Covid Scientific Consultancy aims to help!

Harriet A. Carroll, PhD
www.LC-SC.co.uk
Harriet@lc-sc.co.uk

Poster reading:
Do you:
Feel unsure about what is going on,& you’re struggling to find answers or make sense of things?
Want help interpreting test results, or deciding what tests to ask for?
Want help navigating evidence, not be sold another protocol?
Read so much that you are now overwhelmed & dont know where to start?
Feel abandoned or dismissed by your healthcare provider, or been told there is nothing that can be done to help?
In my own journey, I remember frantically trying to find answers & getting constantly dismissed by doctors. Looking back, I wish I had some guidance from someone. This guidance is what Long Covid Scientific Consultancy aims to provide. I hope to support you in making evidence-based decisions on your journey...

5 star reviews:
“None of [my medical team] have had the depth of knowledge & understanding that Harriet demonstrated”~Anita
“It’s wonderful to have access to someone who is so knowledgeable & whom I feel I can can really trust” ~Jill

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Harriet Carroll: Long Covid Scientific Consultancy @angryhacademic.bsky.social · 1h

If you want your day ruined, check figure 2 in this paper:
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

I am warning you 😂😂 you can never unsee this 😆

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Michiel @murtoz.bsky.social · 1h

And they could have mandated the CPD course for all healthcare workers without it costing anything more than an hour of everybody's time.

The sooner people who have PEM hear about pacing, the less likely we are to deteriorate - so it is vital that frontline HCW are PEM aware.

Myalgic Encephalomyelitis | Chronic Fatigue Syndrome | CPD

Deepen your knowledge of chronic fatigue syndrome with our comprehensive resource, comprising of 5 clinical cases.

www.studyprn.com

Harriet Carroll: Long Covid Scientific Consultancy @angryhacademic.bsky.social · 1h

Fun fact: in yesterdays case study (sciencedirect.com/science/arti...), belly button fluff was analysed after wearing a white cotton t-shirt, finding evidence that t-shirt lint trapped foreign materials (sweat, skin cells, etc), concluding those with belly button fluff may have cleaner belly buttons

The nature of navel fluff

Hard facts on a soft matter! In their popular scientific book (Leyner M, Goldberg B. Why do men have nipples – hundreds of questions you’d only ask a …

sciencedirect.com

Harriet Carroll: Long Covid Scientific Consultancy @angryhacademic.bsky.social · 1h

Fun fact: if you found custard fun, meet ferrofluid: a suspension of magnetic nanoparticles in oil. When placed near a magnet, the liquid aligns with the magnetic field, & looks like a hedgehog but is still liquid!
livescience.com/61426-ferrof...
Watch here: youtu.be/aQPh6paW_js

A black liquid in a bowl being poured onto plexiglass with a magnet underneath. The black liquid looks like a solid spikey blob when it meets the plexiglass

Close up of ferrofluid, a black circle of liquid and in the middle it looks like a solid with lots of spikes where it is sitting on top of a magnet

A man holding plexiglass vertically with a magnet behind it with a blob of spikey ferrofluid staying solid on the glass as if it is a solid

Harriet Carroll: Long Covid Scientific Consultancy @angryhacademic.bsky.social · 1h

Fun fact: some sea cucumber species can expel their internal organs (e.g. gut & respiratory trees) out of their body when stressed, then regenerate the missing organs
sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles...
Watch:
youtu.be/wXf_YodWw40?...

Large scale gene expression profiling during intestine and body wall regeneration in the sea cucumber Apostichopus japonicus

Sea cucumbers are fascinating invertebrate organisms because of their ability to rapidly regenerate many organs and appendages. In this study 454 cDNA…

sciencedirect.com

Harriet Carroll: Long Covid Scientific Consultancy @angryhacademic.bsky.social · 1h

Fun fact: the colour of gold is...gold, right?

It depends on size - gold nanoparticles interact with light differently, resulting in other colours, most notably red
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Image: researchgate.net/figure/Color...

7 vials of liquid with different size gold nanoparticle solution in them. The colour of the vials goes from a deep ruby red towards a pale purple

Harriet Carroll: Long Covid Scientific Consultancy @angryhacademic.bsky.social · 1h

Fun fact: some medications like minocycline can change the colour of body parts, for example turning bones a khaki green-ish colour, including fluorescing under UV 👇🏻
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

⚠️ More gruesome images ⚠️: moscow.sci-hub.st/4620/c477699...
2024.sci-hub.st/6846/d46c251...

Bone fragments from patient 3 (upper row) demonstrating a yellow-green fluorescence as compared with a control (lower row).

Harriet Carroll: Long Covid Scientific Consultancy @angryhacademic.bsky.social · 2h

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Harriet Carroll: Long Covid Scientific Consultancy @angryhacademic.bsky.social · 2h

The 2 available series are on the BLM movement in America and why that was seen as such a threat, and on narco-terrorism and how one guy wrongly got the impression he was working on a sting operation for the CIA whilst the FBI were working on a sting operation to catch him.

Harriet Carroll: Long Covid Scientific Consultancy @angryhacademic.bsky.social · 2h

Alphabet boys podcast
alphabetboys.xyz

Very much worth listening too. Its about how alphabet agencies (e.g. FBI, CIA) set up sting operations that seem to directly lead people into doing a crime so they can show their work is leading to arrests etc.

Alphabet Boys

Alphabet Boys reveals the secret investigations of the FBI, CIA, DEA, ATF, and other alphabet agencies.

alphabetboys.xyz

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 4h

California just banned employers from forcing workers to pay a debt, fee, or penalty to leave their job.

Bosses have increasingly been trapping workers with debts incurred in training and other exploitative fees.

Now that's illegal in the nation's biggest state.

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Harriet Carroll: Long Covid Scientific Consultancy @angryhacademic.bsky.social · 2h

NHS Scotland ME/CFS provision – NHS Orkney (FOI request)
www.meresearch.org.uk/nhs-scotland...

"NHS Orkney’s annual share is £14,716"

Theyd probs have more impact on ME spending that on widespread FFP3 use and air filtration, than a part time AHP or whatever who can offer nothing more than pacing

NHS Scotland ME/CFS provision – NHS Orkney

The inexactitude of how the Scottish Government's £4.5m allocation of annual funding for specialist services will enable NICE compliant provision for ME/CFS has led Rhoda Grant MSP (with assistance fr...

www.meresearch.org.uk

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Harriet Carroll: Long Covid Scientific Consultancy @angryhacademic.bsky.social · 3h

I might just take a wee bit longer than my usual 2 week aim for any write ups so please do bear with me 😊

Harriet Carroll: Long Covid Scientific Consultancy @angryhacademic.bsky.social · 3h

Its taken a bit longer than i anticipated & tbh im still not back to my baseline but im "back" in business—if you want to discuss anything long covid, postvac, ME, MCAS, POTS, chronic illness in general etc you can book here:
lc-sc.co.uk/book-an-appo...
Or email: [email protected]

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 4h

It’s a snores d’oeuvres or a snooze-bouche

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Harriet Carroll: Long Covid Scientific Consultancy @angryhacademic.bsky.social · 23h

Fun fact: in a quest to understand belly button fluff, 1 man collected over 500 pieces of his own over the course of several years.
The most common weight was 0.0012-0.0013 grams. The heaviest was 0.0092 grams
Collectively all > 500 pieces weighed < 1 gram
sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The nature of navel fluff

Hard facts on a soft matter! In their popular scientific book (Leyner M, Goldberg B. Why do men have nipples – hundreds of questions you’d only ask a …

sciencedirect.com

Harriet Carroll: Long Covid Scientific Consultancy @angryhacademic.bsky.social · 23h

Fun fact: non-Newtonian fluids change viscosity almost instantly under stress. There's many examples, incl some bodily fluids, but most well known is custard where you can make it dance to music:
youtu.be/RkLn2gR7SyE
Or walk on it
youtu.be/Iz9KnPZWOgs

Non-Newtonian Fluid in Slow Motion - The Slow Mo Guys

YouTube video by The Slow Mo Guys

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Harriet Carroll: Long Covid Scientific Consultancy @angryhacademic.bsky.social · 23h

Fun fact: sea cucumbers play a surprisingly important role in keeping the sea healthy. They gobble up crap on the seabed & what they poop out is cleaner than what went in. Their 💩 even helps stop the sea getting too acidic!
researchgate.net/profile/Stev...
Watch: youtu.be/LO1epZE7js4

a picture of a sea slug with a national geographic logo on the bottom

ALT: a picture of a sea slug with a national geographic logo on the bottom

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Harriet Carroll: Long Covid Scientific Consultancy @angryhacademic.bsky.social · 23h

Fun fact: some pitcher plants are big enough to catch rodents, who drown whilst essentially getting dissolved by digestive juices
livescience.com/10561-giant-...
Watch: youtu.be/1CP1i0UKvb8?...

Giant Plant Eats Rodents

A newly discovered plant is a vicious meat-eater.

livescience.com

Harriet Carroll: Long Covid Scientific Consultancy @angryhacademic.bsky.social · 23h

Fun fact: matchstick makers in the 1800s got phosphorus poisoning causing jaw necrosis (phossy jaw). Not only did their jaw dissolve, it allegedly glowed green-ish in the dark too
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
www.rcseng.ac.uk/library-and-...
Pics, if you dare: 2024.sci-hub.st/1341/cdea160...

A historical review of 'phossy jaw'

The aim of this article is to stimulate interest and discussion on the pathogenesis of 'phossy jaw'. Historical evidence from newspapers and articles of the time is presented, as other scientific evid...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Harriet Carroll: Long Covid Scientific Consultancy @angryhacademic.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks Michiel 🥰🥰

Harriet Carroll: Long Covid Scientific Consultancy @angryhacademic.bsky.social · 1d

Luckily my dentist seems understanding—whilst the clinic (last time) no longer had any respirators due to gov rule changes and funding (🙄), they will at least wear a FFP3 if i bring one, and they let me have my mini HEPA running near my face holes. But its still unduly risky 😭

a close up of a man 's face with the words `` y 'all wish me luck '' written below him .

ALT: a close up of a man 's face with the words `` y 'all wish me luck '' written below him .

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Harriet Carroll: Long Covid Scientific Consultancy @angryhacademic.bsky.social · 1d

Yet going to the dentist is a high risk activity - to stay healthy you need to risk your health, and that doesnt seem right

Harriet Carroll: Long Covid Scientific Consultancy @angryhacademic.bsky.social · 1d

Poor oral health (periodontal disease) seems to be a significant risk factor for severe covid, potentially increasing the risk of death by 8-9 times, tho theres less research on this than other risk factors
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
(follow @drgrahamlj.bsky.social for more on oral hygiene)

COVID-19 and Periodontal Conditions — A Narrative Review of Implications for Oral Health Providers

Studies suggest a possible role for oral dysbiosis and periodontitis as contributing factors to COVID-19. Based on current knowledge, this review summarizes the potential connection between COVID-1...

www.tandfonline.com

Harriet Carroll: Long Covid Scientific Consultancy @angryhacademic.bsky.social · 1d

Just booked a long overdue dentist appointment. I had to cancel two already cos gyne issues made me so ill. They had a cancellation slot on Wednesday which is great but i am shitting a brick.

Growing evidence suggests oral health is REALLY important for general health🧵

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