Is Long COVID a Mitochondrial Crash? The “Energy Code” Hidden in Your Genes
For years, we obsessed over the invader: spikes, variants, antibodies, immune escape. But this deep dive flips the lens to the terrain, the battlefield inside the body, and the batteries powering it.
Using a 2025 paper from the Journal of Medical Virology on genetic landscape + mitochondrial metabolic dysregulation in severe long COVID, we unpack a provocative idea: long COVID can look like a metabolic crash in people with hidden, common genetic weak links in their energy chain. These aren’t obvious rare childhood disorders. Many patients appear healthy until the virus hits like a stress…
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