Dr. Bel
@drbelkr.bsky.social
🇦🇺 South Australia
🏳️🌈 Queer
👩⚕️ Retired doctor - ME/CFS & POTS advocate (Doctors with M.E. associate + Australian POTS foundation member)
🌏 Climate crisis advocate (Climate and Health Alliance member + Doctors for the Environment Australia member)
🏳️🌈 Queer
👩⚕️ Retired doctor - ME/CFS & POTS advocate (Doctors with M.E. associate + Australian POTS foundation member)
🌏 Climate crisis advocate (Climate and Health Alliance member + Doctors for the Environment Australia member)
🇦🇺 2025 ME/CFS study
⚠️ENERGY IMPAIRMENT: "...mitochondrial dysfunction and energy stress."
⚠️IMMUNE DYSFUNCTION/⬆️INFECTION RISK
"fatigue and susceptibility to infection."
⚠️VASCULAR DYSFUNCTION
"...reduce overall blood flow...
...restricts brain-blood flow...brain fog and post-exertional malaise."
⚠️ENERGY IMPAIRMENT: "...mitochondrial dysfunction and energy stress."
⚠️IMMUNE DYSFUNCTION/⬆️INFECTION RISK
"fatigue and susceptibility to infection."
⚠️VASCULAR DYSFUNCTION
"...reduce overall blood flow...
...restricts brain-blood flow...brain fog and post-exertional malaise."
Mapping the complexity of ME/CFS: Evidence for abnormal energy metabolism, altered immune profile, and vascular dysfunction
Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is a complex disorder with undefined mechanisms, no diagnostic tools and treatments. To in…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:23 AM
🇦🇺 2025 ME/CFS study
⚠️ENERGY IMPAIRMENT: "...mitochondrial dysfunction and energy stress."
⚠️IMMUNE DYSFUNCTION/⬆️INFECTION RISK
"fatigue and susceptibility to infection."
⚠️VASCULAR DYSFUNCTION
"...reduce overall blood flow...
...restricts brain-blood flow...brain fog and post-exertional malaise."
⚠️ENERGY IMPAIRMENT: "...mitochondrial dysfunction and energy stress."
⚠️IMMUNE DYSFUNCTION/⬆️INFECTION RISK
"fatigue and susceptibility to infection."
⚠️VASCULAR DYSFUNCTION
"...reduce overall blood flow...
...restricts brain-blood flow...brain fog and post-exertional malaise."
People fear/judge/exclude/hate what they don't know, even 1-2% of the population...
Biological sex IS NOT BINARY (male/female). I'm sick of ignorant people speaking before educating themselves.
✳️'Every Body' - Netflix intersex doco, available until the 7th in AUS!✳️
www.netflix.com/us/title/817...
Biological sex IS NOT BINARY (male/female). I'm sick of ignorant people speaking before educating themselves.
✳️'Every Body' - Netflix intersex doco, available until the 7th in AUS!✳️
www.netflix.com/us/title/817...
March 2, 2025 at 9:00 AM
People fear/judge/exclude/hate what they don't know, even 1-2% of the population...
Biological sex IS NOT BINARY (male/female). I'm sick of ignorant people speaking before educating themselves.
✳️'Every Body' - Netflix intersex doco, available until the 7th in AUS!✳️
www.netflix.com/us/title/817...
Biological sex IS NOT BINARY (male/female). I'm sick of ignorant people speaking before educating themselves.
✳️'Every Body' - Netflix intersex doco, available until the 7th in AUS!✳️
www.netflix.com/us/title/817...
Reposted by Dr. Bel
AEC disclosures prove Labor and the Libs are simply rival factions of the same captured political class.
Their job is to protect the profits of the rich and powerful. If that means you can't afford rent, so be it.
We can't keep voting for the same two parties and expect a different result.
Their job is to protect the profits of the rich and powerful. If that means you can't afford rent, so be it.
We can't keep voting for the same two parties and expect a different result.
February 4, 2025 at 12:08 AM
AEC disclosures prove Labor and the Libs are simply rival factions of the same captured political class.
Their job is to protect the profits of the rich and powerful. If that means you can't afford rent, so be it.
We can't keep voting for the same two parties and expect a different result.
Their job is to protect the profits of the rich and powerful. If that means you can't afford rent, so be it.
We can't keep voting for the same two parties and expect a different result.
Reposted by Dr. Bel
New options could arrive in the not-too-distant future. We’re within touching distance of the first fertility-controlling, nonpermanent male contraceptive, which could enter pharmacies within five to 10 years.
Better male birth control is on the horizon
Men have two birth control options: condoms and vasectomies. Why has it taken so long to develop more contraceptives?
bit.ly
January 30, 2025 at 8:45 PM
New options could arrive in the not-too-distant future. We’re within touching distance of the first fertility-controlling, nonpermanent male contraceptive, which could enter pharmacies within five to 10 years.
90s ME/CFS cognitive behavioural hypothesis: patients falsely believe they're sick = activity avoidance = deconditioning = symptoms
CBT & graded exercise therapy: fix false belief & return to activity = reconditioning = recovery
BUT they don't work
ME/CFS patients ARE sick
#MECFS
#organicillness
CBT & graded exercise therapy: fix false belief & return to activity = reconditioning = recovery
BUT they don't work
ME/CFS patients ARE sick
#MECFS
#organicillness
Frontiers | CBT and graded exercise therapy studies have proven that ME/CFS and long COVID are physical diseases, yet no one is aware of that
The cognitive behavioral model (CBmodel) (1,2) has dominated the world of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) since the 1990s. Accord...
www.frontiersin.org
January 29, 2025 at 8:34 AM
90s ME/CFS cognitive behavioural hypothesis: patients falsely believe they're sick = activity avoidance = deconditioning = symptoms
CBT & graded exercise therapy: fix false belief & return to activity = reconditioning = recovery
BUT they don't work
ME/CFS patients ARE sick
#MECFS
#organicillness
CBT & graded exercise therapy: fix false belief & return to activity = reconditioning = recovery
BUT they don't work
ME/CFS patients ARE sick
#MECFS
#organicillness
Pg1 of my ME/CFS for health professionals pdf. Key points, educational videos, guidelines, appropriate diagnostic criteria (inc mandatory post-exertional malaise), clinician & patient resources.
✳️Full 7pg pdf available if you're interested.
#MECFS #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome
✳️Full 7pg pdf available if you're interested.
#MECFS #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome
January 28, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Pg1 of my ME/CFS for health professionals pdf. Key points, educational videos, guidelines, appropriate diagnostic criteria (inc mandatory post-exertional malaise), clinician & patient resources.
✳️Full 7pg pdf available if you're interested.
#MECFS #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome
✳️Full 7pg pdf available if you're interested.
#MECFS #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome