TLC Sessions - Living with Long Covid

As we start to explore the different systems of the body affected by Long Covid, this week we speak to Consultant Cardiologist Dr Alexander Lyon.  He unpicks how Long Covid affects the heart, talks us through the symptoms that the heart causes, and gives us hope that recovery is possible in a majority of cases. Living with Long Covid? How was your week? Website - https://www.tlcsessions.net/ Twitt...

Professor of Immunology, Danny Altmann, talks us through his work looking at the way in which Covid-19 has left its mark on the immune system in cases of Long Covid.  He draws comparisons with other viruses to try and understand the long term prognosis for Long Covid sufferers, as well detailing his efforts to develop a potential blood test for diagnosis of the condition.  A brilliant mind, Profes...

Sonia Gallego works as a reporter for an international news channel and lived a full and active life until she contracted Covid in December 2020.  Since then she has had to dramatically change her expectations.  Suffering many of the most common Long Covid symptoms, she has also become pre-diabetic and is currently having her endocrine system investigated.  Living with Long Covid? How was your wee...

Dr. Paul Glynne,  Consultant Physician and Medical Director at The Physicians’ Clinic and former medical director at UCLH. He is the Sherlock Holmes of diagnostic medicine and is now treating patients with Long Covid.  He shares with us the current management strategies he believes can help Covid 'Long Haulers'. Glynne advocates a holistic and multi-disciplinary approach to help patients...

Dr Elaine Maxwell, Clinical Adviser at the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) breaks down all the world’s Long Covid research for us into bite-sized pieces.  Maxwell explains who is being affected, how they are affected and what is being done to try and help. And yes - it's a real thing. Living with Long Covid? How was your week? Website - https://www.tlcsessions.net/ Twitter - @Se...

Sometimes it just takes two people to start the national conversation.  Noreen Jameel and Emily Kate Stephens talk about what it's like to live with Long Covid and what inspired them to create this podcast. Living with Long Covid? How was your week? Website - https://www.tlcsessions.net/ Twitter - @SessionsTlc https://twitter.com/sessionstlc Insta - @tlcsessions https://www.instagram.com/tlcs...

A brief introduction to a brand new podcast on Long Covid. What it's like to live with this new condition and what the medical community is doing to try and find a cure.  Living with Long Covid? How was your week? Website - https://www.tlcsessions.net/ Twitter - @SessionsTlc https://twitter.com/sessionstlc Insta - @tlcsessions https://www.instagram.com/tlcsessions