Long Covid may soon be less of an enigma, especially to the millions globally suffering from its persistent symptoms. Researchers may have discovered what causes some symptoms and how they might be treated.

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long coid has long been a mystery but new research in the general cell sheds important light on what might be causing it and how it could be treated Raising Hope for the tens of millions of people suffering the often debilitating consequences of the Corona virus University of Pennsylvania researchers found that many long coid patients have low levels of serotonin in their blood serotonin plays many roles including helping with digestion mood and sleep regulation when serotonin levels plummet the effects can be profound and there we actually saw that serotonin levels negatively correlate with the number of symptoms so the sicker the person is in terms of the number of symptoms they present with the lower their serotonin the new findings show that Co can trigger a complex chain of reactions from the bow to the brain but treatment might not be as complicated studies in lab mice found anti-depressants like proac could restore serotonin levels and reverse memory impairment but at this stage it’s all still hypothetical