Today! Come learn about ways to fix breathing in sleep so the chronic stress response lowers.
New panelists:
Bela Chheda, MD, Inf. disease & internist
Anil Rama, MD, neurology and sleep medicine
Kishan Tarpara, DO, neurologist & sleep medicine at Vanderbilt Autonomic Dysfunction Center
Dr. Gold, Sleep Medicine / Pulmonary specialist, will speak at next @renegaderesearch.bsky.social Clinician's Roundtable.
Sleep Dysfunction & Breathing Mechanics
Friday
March 6, 2026 at 1 pm Eastern US
Free. Invite your networks interested in sleep.
Sign up
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
A 43 second video to promote our 4 March events!
Doctors, researchers, patients, caregivers and other members of the public invited.
For registration links, see our website Events page, our Bluesky timeline, or open our YouTube channel and look in the description. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA5i...
Looking forward to this! See you there
You can also follow @thenicotinetest.bsky.social and see their LinkTree for more info, resources and updates about #TheNicotineTest linktr.ee/thenicotinet...
This is this Friday! Register now so you don’t forget, #LongCovid and #pwME communities
#LongCovid #LongCovidAwareness #LongCovidAwarenessDay #LongCovidAwarenessWeek #LongCovidAwarenessDay2026 #LongCovidAwarenessWeek2026 #PASC #COVID #COVID19
The recording of this event will be available soon after on our website at renegade-research.org/recordings
and on our YouTube channel at youtube.com/renegaderese....
Tune in for our X Space for Long Covid Awareness 2026 on March 17 at 4 pm ET US: x.com/i/spaces/1nK...
We will be hosting a discussion to talk about Long COVID community thoughts, feelings, concerns, needs, research and care. All are welcome!
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Please join us for an X/Twitter Space Discussion for Long COVID Awareness Week on March 17 at 4 pm ET US! (in honor of Long Covid Awareness Day on March 15)
Bluesky doesn't have a Spaces-like tool, so we can't host here
Moderators: @isabelrb.bsky.social and @emilyrj.bsky.social
X space link in 🧵
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Our other medical research projects in the works:
• Vielight red light device responses
• Responses to the supplement Rutin
• Heart Rate Variability
• PEM Supplement Formula
• GIP and postprandial reactions
You can donate to support the rest of our projects here: www.zeffy.com/en-US/fundra...
You can donate to support The Nicotine Test project here: zeffy.com/en-US/donati...
This is a follow-up project to our previous project #TheNicotineTest, back by popular demand
You can read more about this and our other projects in detail at: www.renegade-research.org/projects
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We have several projects in the works by our citizen/patient scientists!
We made a Zeffy page for The Nicotine Test (a followup to our previous Nicotine Test project), to help the budget. PI Troy Roach.
Donate to The Nicotine Test project and our other patient-led projects in this thread 🧵
I designed these! 💞 Please boost these posts so our very deserving and #LongCovid and #MECFS communities (and all who care about us) can stay stylish while funding education, research, awareness and advocacy ❤️🩹
You can buy #LongCovid and #MECFS merch here: bonfire.com/store/renega...
Included are 100% cotton items, shirts for kids and teens – and YES, we even have crop tops for the heat intolerant baddies out here! ✨
Have any fun merch ideas for what you'd like to buy from us? DM us your ideas!
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Check out our new Bonfire merch for Long Covid Awareness! 😎 It's pretty PASC-tacular
You can wear these every March or even year-round to get your advocacy on for #LongCovid and #MECFS 💪
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Great events in March by @renegaderesearch.bsky.social
Times ET US
3/06 12p sleep breathing
Dr. Gold
3/13 1p hypercoagulability
Drs. Vaughn, Pretorius, Kell
3/17 TBD X Space
Chat 4 LC Awareness Week
3/27 1p neurogastroenterology
Dr. Spiritos
Excited to host this webinar with you!
Yes, indeed! We are a co-host for this event with Zac Spiritos, MD, neurogastroenterologist.
He is the founder of the Ever Better Medicine (.health) clinic and can only take patients from IL or NC.
We have a few of his patients in our support group who have been pleased with their care.
To get reminders about our upcoming Clinician and Research Roundtables, our research projects and community events, please sign up for our Renegade Research Newsletter: www.renegade-research.org/join-email-l...
You may recognize Dr. Zac Spiritos from his viral Instagram posts on these topics
You can follow him and watch his videos here
Some of our favorite recent clips of his:
www.instagram.com/p/DUeI7cREjBu/
www.instagram.com/p/DT8lR8rkjNp/
www.instagram.com/p/DS5w_-gkqhs/
Dr. Linda Bluestein featured Dr. Zac Spiritos on the Bendy Bodies podcast in July 2025, discussing Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome #EDS, Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome #POTS, Mast Cell Activation Syndrome #MCAS, "normal" tests, motility problems and more www.bendybodiespodcast.com/why-do-some-...
See more of Dr. Zac Spiritos' research: www.researchgate.net/profile/Zach...
He was quoted in this May 2025 @newsweek.com article "Managing #POTS: Tips for Living with the Chronic Illness Affecting Millions" on hormonal and immune impacts on conditions and symptoms
www.newsweek.com/managing-pot...
A May 2022 paper by Dr. Zac Spiritos: "Epidemiology of early esophageal adenocarcinoma"
Key: Found a 7-fold increase in early esophageal adenocarcinoma #EAC, much more than other major epithelial malignancies examined - more recently, EAC incidence decreased
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Dr. Spiritos treats many gastrointestinal and liver disorders, #IBS, functional abdominal pain, motility disorders, dysautonomias like #POTS, #MCAS, issues in hypermobility syndromes like #EDS everbettermedicine.health/team/zac-spi...
He integrates nutrition, lifestyle changes, gut-brain therapies
Register for our Clinician's Roundtable with neurogastroenterologist Dr. Zac Spiritos on Friday, March 27 at 1 pm ET here:
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
He will speak and the a Q & A and discussion session will follow
Our co-host on this event is @meactionnc.bsky.social
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We welcome you to join us on Friday, March 27 at 1 pm ET (US) for a Clinician's Roundtable with neurogastroenterologist Dr. Zac Spiritos
He will be discussing the Gastrointestinal-Neuroimmune Axis & the Role of Histamine and Mast Cells
Registration link below with info on Dr. Spiritos' work 🧵
Dr. Avram Gold's About page is here: renaissance.stonybrookmedicine.edu/medicine/pul...
bsky.app/profile/rene...
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