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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

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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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Fun fact: just the taste of sweetness can cause your basal (fasted) insulin levels to increase up to twofold
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6364839/

The purpose of this is to preempt after-eating increases in blood sugar, thus helping to prevent post-meal high blood sugar
Oral glucose is the prime elicitor of preabsorptive insulin secretion - PubMed
Seven sugars, two sugar alcohols, and a nonnutritive sweetener were orally administered to naive rats with and without gastric drainage fistulas. Although all taste solutions were ingested, only gluco...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
November 29, 2024 at 9:13 PM
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angryhacademic.bsky.social
Fun fact: this is an ornate wobbegong shark. when mating, the males bite the females
sci-hub.zidianzhan.net/10.1002/zoo....

image: sharksandrays.com/ornate-wobbe...
a patchy beige and brown sea creature on a purple rock. it has tassles coming from it's mouth and doesn't look like what you'd expect a shark to look like. it is quite flat.
November 29, 2024 at 9:12 PM
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angryhacademic.bsky.social
Fun fact: Grendel Games created a Wii game to help improve surgical skills, including special controls that mimic surgery
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Easy read: grendelgames.com/games-may-be...
Image: undergroundthegame.com/product/unde... pic.x.com/HEa1Jp0WZe
A Wii controller which is quite hard to describe. It has a base flat platform at the bottom with 2 arms sticking up. At the top of the arms looks like 2 gun shaped objects pointing diagonally down towards the base, with 2 rings protruding from each gun (like scissor handles).
November 29, 2024 at 9:11 PM
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angryhacademic.bsky.social
Today's fun fact: some horses can grow moustaches

snopes.com/fact-check/c...
Images: boredpanda.com/horse-mousta...
A horse lying down on some grass. It has a very long blonde mane which looks like its been straightened and crimped, and styled like a long fringe swept across half the horses face, like an emo haircut. The horse has a small blonde moustache atop its lip Close up of a white and brown horse with blonde moustache atop its lip, and part of its mane is plaited Close up of a horses face, with a long blond moustache drooping downwards over its mouth Close up of a horses nose with a blonde curled moustache atop its lip
November 29, 2024 at 9:08 PM
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angryhacademic.bsky.social
Fun fact: some birds, like turkeys, can have virgin births (i.e. births without fertilisation, called parthenogenesis). The resultant babes seem to always be male
rep.bioscientifica.com/configurable...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9776051/
November 29, 2024 at 9:05 PM
angryhacademic.bsky.social
Something that desperately needs to change in medicine: the default assumption that "over-testing" is bad and causes undue anxiety.

This needs to change on several counts:

1. Ask the patient, explain the tests, the implications, the risks (including false positives) 🧵
November 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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katmabu.bsky.social
anyway,
www.ms.now/morning-joe/...
Trump admits to using autopen after declaring Biden's pardons void due to autopen
President Donald Trump claimed without evidence early Monday that his predecessor’s pardons for members of the House select committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attacks on the Capitol are inv...
www.ms.now
November 28, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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rippermd41.bsky.social
I’m incredibly grateful for my husband.

He never doubts my symptoms. He’s always supportive and willing to take things off my plate so I can rest.

I wish everyone in the #MECFS community had a caregiver like him.

Too many have to go this illness alone often to the detriment of their health.
November 28, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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lucibee.bsky.social
Just another day, shouting into the void. 😩

#ChalderFatigueSyndrome
Tweet from Prof Anthony Costello about CLoCk's latest fatigue study in kids with long covid. My reply: You can't use CFQ as a repeated measures instrument!!!
November 28, 2025 at 11:15 AM
angryhacademic.bsky.social
This is cool:
Anti-obesity actions of mastication driven by histamine neurons in rats
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14610247/

Chewing activates histamine neurons, implicated in satiety. But what implications might this have in MCAS and ME?
Anti-obesity actions of mastication driven by histamine neurons in rats - PubMed
Implications of mastication in energy intake and expenditure regulated by histamine (HA) neurons were investigated in rats. Depletion of neuronal HA from the mesencephalic trigeminal sensory nucleus (Me5) reduced eating speed, but that from a satiety center of the ventromedial hypothalamus (VMH) inc …
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
November 28, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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bibiblossoms.bsky.social
I was nominated for the Disabled Creators' Award for the categories below:

🌸 Intersectionality Matters - Disabled BIPOC Creator of the Year

🌸 Chatty Gamer Award - Disabled Just Chatting Creator of the Year

Vote for me & many other talented creators!

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Disabled Creators' Award Voting Form (Round Two)
Vote for your favorite creators for the Disabled Creators' Award. Please read each description carefully. There are 18 categories, and creators can be nominated for multiple awards. This form is due b...
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November 28, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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chadbourn.bsky.social
Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.
November 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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angryhacademic.bsky.social
Fun fact: peregrine falcons dive at ~200 mph, making them the fastest known animal. At such high speeds, air pressure can damage their lungs; to counter this they have little boney cones in their nose, similar to a jet engine
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/museums/2016...
Watch: youtu.be/legzXQlFNjs?...
2016 | UCL UCL Culture Blog
UCL Homepage
blogs.ucl.ac.uk
November 28, 2024 at 9:26 PM
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angryhacademic.bsky.social
Fun fact: emerging evidence suggests we taste sweet more intensely in the morning and this has nothing to do with our blood sugar or insulin but does track well (seemingly causally) with a key fullness & body weight regulating hormone, leptin
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18633111/
Diurnal variation of human sweet taste recognition thresholds is correlated with plasma leptin levels - PubMed
This synchronization of diurnal variation in leptin levels and sweet taste recognition thresholds suggests a mechanistic connection between these two variables in humans.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
November 28, 2024 at 9:21 PM
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angryhacademic.bsky.social
Fun fact: cancer cells (in a petri dish) can hijack the mitochondria from immune cells via physical nanotubes. this depletes the immune cells of energy and may help the cancer cells grow
nature.com/articles/s41...

easy to read summary:
www.newscientist.com/article/2298...
Intercellular nanotubes mediate mitochondrial trafficking between cancer and immune cells - Nature Nanotechnology
Cancer cells adopt a series of strategies to evade the immune response mounted by the organism against them. Here we find that tumour cells can hijack mitochondria from immune cells by forming physica...
nature.com
November 28, 2024 at 9:20 PM
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angryhacademic.bsky.social
Fun fact: drinks tins have a thin plastic coating inside to protect the drink from the can and the can from the drink
google.com/amp/s/www.sc...

Cool video here (and another one in the link above too 👆🏻):
x.com/JamieBGall/s...
Viral Video Reveals The Bizarre Way You Can Make a Soda Can Fully Transparent
The world produces a staggering 180 billion aluminium cans every year, but it's a safe bet many of the people consuming those beverages don't know about a hidden material concealed inside the metal cy...
google.com
November 28, 2024 at 9:19 PM
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angryhacademic.bsky.social
Fun fact: platelets are often seen as just plugs to help stop bleeds. However they store & release many things (eg inflammatory proteins, neurotransmitters), & the way they work has been described as similar to circulating neurons
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Fresh Evidence for Platelets as Neuronal and Innate Immune Cells: Their Role in the Activation, Differentiation, and Deactivation of Th1, Th17, and Tregs during Tissue Inflammation
Recent studies suggest that in addition to their common function in the regulation of thrombosis and hemostasis, platelets also contribute to tissue inflammation affecting adaptive immunity. Platelets...
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
November 28, 2024 at 9:18 PM
angryhacademic.bsky.social
Colin Berry who ran the CISCO-21 resistance exercise in long COVID study has replied to my comment 👇🏻

Utterly predictable that he completely bypasses the point of my comment. 🧵
November 25, 2025 Author response to Carroll Colin Berry, BSc, MBChB, PhD | University of Glasgow Thank you for the interest in the CISCO-21 trial of resistance exercise post-COVID-19 infection. The research was undertaken following independent peer review and approval of a grant application followed by review and approval by a research ethics committee. The participants provided written informed consent. Enrollment was completed in line with the predefined plan as outlined in Clinicaltrials.gov (NCT04900961) and with oversight by a steering group. Following analysis of the results by biostatisticians independent of the clinical research team, there was no evidence of post-exertional malaise (PEM) based on use of a validated questionnaire of PEM and no evidence of any adverse events relating to the resistance exercise. On the other hand, there was evidence of improved physical functioning based on the primary analysis and additional evidence of improvements in health-related quality of life and grip strength. This multicenter, prospective, randomized, controlled trial has provided new knowledge on therapy development for post-COVID-19 conditions and the results should be informative for future guidelines. CONFLICT OF INTEREST: The CISCO-21 study was peer-reviewed and then funded by a Project Grant from the Chief Scientist Office of the Scottish Government. See article Disclosures.
November 28, 2025 at 5:59 PM
angryhacademic.bsky.social
#MEAction Scotland's @meactionscotland.bsky.social Summary of Health Board Proposals for Funding
meaction.org.uk/news/2025/11...
News Article - MEAction UK
MEAction UK - Supporting people with ME
meaction.org.uk
November 28, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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murtoz.bsky.social
ugh, ffs.

I know, let's give some budget to the gaslighty assholes at NHS GGC CIC for 'services' for pwME.

The same CIC who is still pushing the Lightning Process.

Despite the NG206 now officially being the only ME guidelines in scotland.

Which state clearly "Do not offer LP to #pwME"
NHS Scotland ME/CFS Provision – NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
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 led Rhoda Grant MSP (with assistance from M...
www.meresearch.org.uk
November 28, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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broadwaybabyto.bsky.social
In case you needed one more reason not to use AI …

The CEO of ChatGPT is blaming a teen’s suicide on his failure to follow the terms of service:

Adam Raine, 16, told ChatGPT he was suicidal and the AI bot told him his feelings were valid and even provided suggestions and detailed instructions.
OpenAI says teen's 'misuse' of ChatGPT is to blame for his suicide, because he broke the TOU: 'Users must comply with OpenAI's Usage Policies, which prohibit the use of ChatGPT for suicide or self-har...
The lawyer presenting Adam Raine's family calls the response "disturbing" and I have to agree.
www.pcgamer.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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erikangner.com
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
Infographic with AI slop published in Nature Scientific Reports
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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angryhacademic.bsky.social
Fun fact: Many people have heard of ghrelin as THE hunger hormone, but emerging evidence suggests insulin-like peptide-5 is also a hunger hormone.

pnas.org/content/111/...

We know loads of fullness hormones but we have not been as successful finding hunger hormones
November 27, 2024 at 9:00 PM
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angryhacademic.bsky.social
Fun fact: figs are essentially inverted flowers; some figs require wasps for pollination who deposit their eggs in the fig and then usually die
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
hilgardia.ucanr.edu/fileaccess.c...
pnas.org/content/pnas...
November 27, 2024 at 9:00 PM
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angryhacademic.bsky.social
Fun fact: NASA developed a foamless safe-to-ingest toothpaste for astronauts, that also has application for people with disabilities & kids, called NASAdent
ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citation...

Though using regular toothpaste in space is less of a problem these days: youtu.be/3bCoGC532p8?...
ntrs.nasa.gov
November 27, 2024 at 8:59 PM