Rob Wüst
@RobWust
Assistant-Professor Muscle Metabolism at Vrije University Amsterdam, Netherlands. Interested in skeletal muscle function in health and disease
🧵 THREAD: Skeletal Muscle Alterations in Long COVID and ME/CFS 1/ 💡 Study Overview We studied whether skeletal muscle changes in Long COVID and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) patients are due to inactivity or distinct pathological processes.
Excited to announce that our team received a @ZonMw grant to study mast cells in Post-Exertional Malaise in Long COVID & ME/CFS. We focus on the interaction between immune cells & muscle @VU_FGB @AMSmovement @TeamDerave amsterdamumc.org/en/research/in…
It was a real pleasure working with you again Emma! Super excited about this!
🎨 ⛈️ New cover alert from the studio! ☁️ ⚡ Post-exertional malaise is a hallmark of long COVID, where even light physical or mental effort can trigger brain fog, fatigue, and muscle pain. In this month’s issue of @Trends_Endo_Met , @RobWust and colleagues explore the…
We are excited that the front cover of the prestigious journal Trends in Endocrinology & Metabolism (@Trends_Endo_Met) relates to our review on post-exertional malaise in patients with #LongCovid. Thanks to our patient reps and @DrawImpacts for this! cell.com/trends/endocri…
New study @NatureGenet identifies first genetic risk factor for long COVID. They compared DNA from 16,000 patients vs 1.9 million controls across 24 countries. Here are my key takeaways 👇
Now that European summer is heating up, let me quickly remind you just how important street trees are!
Wanted to put forward a thread about #PEM since there have been some new developments and also because I just need to get some of this out of my head and work through it. Folks with infection- and exposure-associated chronic illnesses (IACIs) like #LongCOVID, #MECFS, 1/
📰 Leestip: Spierveranderingen bij long covid en ME komen niet door inactiviteit Goed artikel in @trouw gisteren, over het onderzoek van @RobWust en anderen. In hun baanbrekende onderzoek is aangetoond dat skeletspieren van mensen met long covid en ME afwijkingen vertonen die…
Spieren van patiënten met #LongCovid en #MEcvs zijn anders, maar dat komt niet door een inactieve leefstijl trouw.nl/wetenschap/spi…
Super excited about this newest study of @RichieGoulding1 from our department who worked on this for 5 years. There's more coming (soon)! Congrats to the whole team! @MYOTWlTTER @DiabetologiaJnl
Extremely excited to share the latest work from my postdoc in Amsterdam, just published in @DiabetologiaJnl ! Skeletal muscle mitochondrial health in type 1 diabetes: the role of exercise capacity and lifestyle factors A thread 🧵 link.springer.com/article/10.100…
I’m really impressed by the high level of research that was presented at the International ME/CFS Conference 2025 #mecfsconference, organized by the great @C_Scheibenbogen: events.mecfs-research.org/en/events/conf…. I’ll mention a few (personal) highlights: 1/7
Dare to ask: does anyone know if there is an EndoPAT machine/lab in the Netherlands that is currently in use? Thanks!
Great time and lots of new ideas (patient-initiated!) at the @MEforeningen conference on Long Covid and ME/CFS in Stavanger, Norway. Super nice to meet @PutrinoLab @kjtronstad @C_Scheibenbogen and many others again. Norway is beautiful!
Again for those in the back: 👏🏼 PEM 👏🏼 is 👏🏼 NOT 👏🏼 deconditioning Symptoms associated with effort expenditure in #LongCOVID, #MECFS and other energy limiting illnesses are physiological, not “preferential” Thanks to @RobWust for this incredible work. medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
ME/CFS and Long Covid - Digging Deeper - in Norwegen, sehr guter Austausch mit Brian Hughes, Oystein Fluge, Kristian Sommerfelt, @kjtronstad, @RobWust, David Systrom, @PutrinoLab. Am Montag geht es weiter auf der International MECFS conference in Berlin mit Livestream.
🔬 Nieuwe inzichten over spierveranderingen bij long covid en ME In een baanbrekend onderzoek van @RobWust (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) en internationale collega’s is aangetoond dat skeletspieren van mensen met long covid en ME afwijkingen vertonen die niet alleen door…