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Tess Falor (Ale Frost), Ph.D. | @RemissionBiome Profile picture
@tessfalor
May 13 • 14 tweets • 12 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
Are you wondering what the trending hashtag #TheAcidTest is?

#TheAcidTest is a worldwide patient-led #LongCovid #MECFS #VaccineInjured project using at-home devices, like GlucoRx & Edge, to measure lactate at waking & 1 hr after breakfast

Story in 🧵
@Vickyvdtogt, a #LongCovid patient, did self-experimentation, found out she had high lactate, wrote a hypothesis paper, & published it!

frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

#TheAcidTest
High lactate was also found in past #MECFS studies.



#TheAcidTest
Patients, like @GeoEduOne @CiaraGlenville @angryhacademic @Naomi_D_Harvey @kirstler31, started measuring their lactate at home with GlucoRx devices



#TheAcidTest
@chydorina suggested creating a protocol, collecting results, & turning it into a real project, like we envisioned for @RenegadeRes



#TheAcidTest
@remissionbiome collected funds to help people who couldn't afford to participate



#TheAcidTest
I suggested we needed a hashtag and @salesyboy came up with #TheAcidTest

@CiaraGlenville @Naomi_D_Harvey @angryhacademic & I started planning

Ciara & Naomi put together the protocol: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI……

I started organizing a group purchase of affordable lactate monitors from the UK to ship to the US

#TheAcidTest
The team grew

@Alice_mecfs joined

@sunsopeningband offered to help get ethics review. He'll run the survey that will be used to collect everyone's data through his university

@PutrinoLab joined the team and paid to ship the lactate devices from the UK to the US

#TheAcidTest
#TheAcidTest blew up as more people received their devices and found high lactate levels

A #LongCOVID patient had her doctor measure her lactate levels and when they came up high, they acted on it.



#TheAcidTest
@CiaraGlenville started coordinating GlucoRx lactate device shipments throughout Europe and Canada
… #TheAcidTest
@Naomi_D_Harvey created a Google sheet to plot in a similar way to this paper:

nature.com/articles/s4159…… … #TheAcidTest
@Naomi_D_Harvey @theacidtesters is Tweeting results

#AcidTestTips is collecting tips from people about how to get the most accurate readings

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Tess Falor (Ale Frost), Ph.D. | @RemissionBiome Profile picture
May 1
These results are what I was expecting.

I asked the question because that night I started reading the original papers from the 50s & they made me open to the possibility of the answer being no. 1/8
What I read didn't sound like the #MECFS that I know. There're many possible reasons for that. Maybe the disease morphed into something more similar after the original case reports. Maybe issues like PEM were actually there, but they didn't know to look for them. 2/8
Maybe since they originally thought it was poliomyelitis they ended up looking for signs & symptoms that come from that. 3/8
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Tess Falor (Ale Frost), Ph.D. | @RemissionBiome Profile picture
Apr 29
I ended up looking at some of Leslie Simpson's work last night. He first suggested that less deformable red blood cells could lead to symptoms of ME in 1986! It was replicated in 2019 in #MECFS & #LongCOVID in 2021

researchgate.net/scientific-con…
"As long ago as the 1980s, Dr Les Simpson in New Zealand found that the red blood cells of patients with CFIDS were deformed & when deformed, they cannot get through the capillary bed, causing pain"

investinme.org/ArticleJ21-Rol…
"Even though Ramsay had described remissions as a feature of ME, and gave examples of the remission/relapse cycle, remissions are unrecognised by American investigators and are little recognised in other countries"

investinme.org/ArticleJ21-Rol…
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Tess Falor (Ale Frost), Ph.D. | @RemissionBiome Profile picture
Apr 29
I didn't know about #MECFS until fall 2020 when I came across @jenbrea & found out about her remission from CCI surgery. I dug into all of the structural issues & agree with @karenlubell that it's likely not rare in our population & should be investigated.
This presentation by @microbeminded2 & @MBVanElzakker explains how CCI/structural issues could lead to the same symptoms as #MECFS caused by immune issues

There's also a lot of great info on @jenbrea & Jeff Wood's sites.

jenbrea.medium.com

mechanicalbasis.org
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Tess Falor (Ale Frost), Ph.D. | @RemissionBiome Profile picture
Jan 10
For my friends IRL who started following me recently:

I didn't know what #MECFS was until the end of 2020. I had heard of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, but didn't actually know anything about it & assumed it was a bs Dx. It's not. Many biological abnormalities have been found.
The more I started digging into the science, the more evidence I found. It's currently diagnosed clinically, but that doesn't mean that there aren't objective measures of biological abnormalities.

cdc.gov/me-cfs/healthc…

me-pedia.org/wiki/List_of_a…
It's shocking when you learn about it. 25% of the people who have #MECFS are severe or very severe. Many of those are bedbound, needing full time caregivers, unable to communicate, extremely sensitive to any sensory input.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33925566/
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Tess Falor (Ale Frost), Ph.D. | @RemissionBiome Profile picture
Oct 22, 2022
A 🧵 about my MCAS, w/?s for you all

Woke up w/"my hive" today, 2" under my sternum, always in the same spot.

In 2005, I woke up 1 day & my knees were swollen. That was the start of a year of constant hives & swelling (pics aren't me, but it looked like this)
A few days in to the start of the hives, I went to urgent care. I was visiting a new place, so thought I might be allergic to something. Their best guess was that I had valley fever and they said it would go away on its own.
cdc.gov/fungal/disease…
But, it kept coming...on different places on my body each day, but always something. If I tried to open a bottle, my hands would end up so swollen I couldn't move my fingers. My eyes would swell completely shut, or my lip so big that I could barely eat or drink.
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Tess Falor (Ale Frost), Ph.D. | @RemissionBiome Profile picture
Sep 7, 2022
Why am I obsessed with Cell Danger Response and sickness behavior? I've been learning about evolutionary medicine for like 13 years now. I came across it during one of my nearly bedbound points when I wanted to find anything that could help me. 🧵 Image
There are many different ways to think about illness from an evolutionary perspective. Image
I have mostly studied mismatch. I don't talk about it much in here, bc it can come off as, "just change your diet & exercise & you'll feel better." I don't believe that. I have been removing mismatches for 13 yrs & didn't get significantly better until surgery and medications. Image
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