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President and Research Director, PolyBio Research Foundation · PolyBio Research Foundation

Amy Proal, PhD

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PhD microbiologist and President/Research Director of the PolyBio Research Foundation, a nonprofit researching viral persistence mechanisms in Long COVID and ME/CFS. Her work is an active research area, not an established treatment target, and is presented here as an explainer; any therapeutics tied to this theory remain experimental and in-trial, never a self-directed recommendation.

No standalone protocols yet, see Guides for Amy's written work.

Long COVID Chronic Fatigue & ME/CFS

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Viral Persistence in Long COVID and ME/CFS: What the Emerging Research Shows

An honest, research-status explainer of Amy Proal's viral-persistence work in Long COVID and ME/CFS: the biological…

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