Using the Microbiome to treat ME/CFS and Long COVID

Attached you will find a PowerPoint PDF with a YouTube presentation. The target audience is
Medical Practitioners treating ME/CFS and Long Covid.

Parallels between Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Emperor’s New Clothes” and the certainty of correct identification of bacteria often expressed by many microbiome researchers should be noted. “Andersen altered the source tale to direct the focus on courtly [academic] pride and intellectual vanity “

A detailed walk through targeted for Medical Practitioners on using the Microbiome to treat Long COVID and ME/CFS. New findings on strong associations (P less than 0.001) derived from the microbiome to these conditions. Discussion of how these finding can lead to treatment suggestions on an individual basis (instead of generic suggestions). Associations listed in full at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uG2z61rDcQ

Bottom Line

  • Microbiome tests are not as precise as marketed. Tests have almost zero agreement with each other.
  • Using test data with data from Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes produces extremely strong consistent associations to the absence (usually) or surplus of specific compounds across three different types of microbiome tests
  • Working with this data quickly becomes very complex and require advance operations research techniques.
  • To date, the results of this complex model has been in agreement with the literature (cross-validation), been show on individuals to objectively improve the microbiome with significant subjective improvement.