Living with Long covid Patrick Ussher and Peter Deen; Streasure4Health and metabolic stress
In this episode of the podcast I have guests Patrick Ussher a person living with ME/CFS for the last 6 years, he has a Youtube channel "Understanding ME/CFS" in which he talks about research into ME/CFS and Long Covid in an accessible way. He has written a medical hypothesis on the potential cause of excessive thirst following being misdiagnosed with psychogenic water drinking. I also have Peter Deen, whom is the founder of a start up company Streasure4health, Streasure4Health is developing an objective diagnosis and scalable diagnostic sensor for LongCovid and ME/CFS, which are rooted in their underlying mechanisms. It has developed an innovative approach to clinically map metabolic stress for the first time.
We discuss how Patrick and Peter met and how this led to their collaborations. We will delve in deeper and discuss Patricks personal journey, experience of medical gaslighting and the eventual publication of his book, The myth of primary polydipsia on a future episode.
We talk in this episode about metabolic stress, research, future projects and diagnostic tools from Streasure4health. Peter explains the science behind metabolic stress and how it affects the physical and cognitive function. He explains how his previous research and scientific knowledge are supporting the potential development for clinical diagnostics of ME/CFS, and Long Covid via blood sampling, however this is in its infancy without clinical trials etc. Peter explains the lack of funding ME/CFS has experienced for decades, prevents advancement of the development of diagnostic and medical support tools to help people living with these chronic conditions. Have a listen to learn more about this and much more from this episode.
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Links mentioned in this episode:
Streasure4health website:
https://www.streasure4health.com/about-us
Dutch long covid foundation website:
https://www.stichtinglongcovid.nl/
Dutch long covid foundation donation page - (disclaimer; I have no affiliation with this foundation)
https://stichtinglongcovid.koalect.com/nl-NL/p/help-mee-doneer/st
My Links:
Long Covid clinic -Dr Binita Kane & Julie Taylor; Email: info@thelongcovidclinic.co.uk for more information
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