Dr. Cecilia Söderberg-Nauclér

Cecilia Söderberg-Nauclér is a Swedish immunologist and a Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis at the Karolinska Institute. She heads the Cellular and Molecular Immunology Research Group within the Department of Medicine, Solna. She is also Professor of Immunovirology at the University of Turku (since 2022), where she leads the Immunometabolism Research Group within the InFLAMES Research Flagship and serves as Director of the Infection and Immunity Unit.

"About 10% of COVID-19 patients develop long haul symptoms, or Post-Acute COVID-19 disease (PACS). They suffer from various symptoms that can include high heart frequency, breathlessness, autonomic dysfunction with a high proportion of patients fulfilling criteria for postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), mental fatigue, muscle and joint pain, headache, nausea, cognitive impairment and memory problems, loss of smell and taste, sensitivity to light and sound, fluid retention and weight gain, gastrointestinal symptoms, high body temperature, hormonal disturbances, histamine intolerance and signs of mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS).

Many of these symptoms may be explained by a limbic system impairment. As we only have limited symptomatic treatment to offer these patients within regular medical care, I recommend patients to explore DNRS training to support their recovery from these conditions, while we await scientific studies validating the effect of DNRS training in controlled studies, and explore mechanistic explanations to how DNRS training can potentially cure patients from PACS, POTS and CIRS."