Metabolic Breakdown? Metabolic Syndrome, ME/CFS, Fibromyalgia and Long COVID
Are people with ME/CFS, fibromyalgia and long COVID at risk for major metabolic problems? We hear a lot about metabolic problems (impaired fatty acid synthesis, preferential amino acid utilization, altered lipid metabolism) in chronic...
RESTORE ME? Oxaloacetate Scores in Randomized Controlled ME/CFS Trial
The GIST The Blog Oxaloacetate was quite the ticket for some people. Here we are back at the mitochondria. How we got here is quite the story. Oxaloacetate showed up in a table of dozens of dysregulated metabolites in an ME/CFS...
The Mitochondria Pt. 3: Could They be Causing the Pain in Fibromyalgia?
Geoff's Narrations The GIST The Blog The mitochondria have been featured more in and more post-infectious disease research. Health Rising's first two overviews of recent mitochondrial findings featured long COVID and chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). Now we turn to...
Red Light / Infrared Therapy For ME/CFS, Fibromyalgia and Long COVID: A Review
Geoff's Narrations The GIST The Blog Starting out with Ari Whitten in an overview of red light therapy is not a bad idea. Whitten pioneered the use of red light therapy and his 2018 tome on it - "The Ultimate Guide To Red Light Therapy: How to Use Red and...
An ME/CFS Sleep Study Goes Where No Sleep Study Has Gone Before
Geoff's Narrations The GIST The Blog If sleep is what we do to feel better, it hasn’t been doing its job very well in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). Almost everyone with this disease experiences non-restorative/non-refreshing...
A Search for Treatments Pervades New Efforts on Long COVID and ME/CFS
Geoff's Narrations The GIST The Blog The GIST is about halfway down the page on the right We don't know how chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), long COVID, fibromyalgia, and allied diseases are going to be beaten, but one thing is pretty clear - it's going to...
Another Balky Metabolic Pathway in ME/CFS? The Pentose Pathway, Low Oxygen, Blood Vessel, and Even Neuroinflammation Connection
Geoff's Narrations The GIST and Treatment Takeaways The Blog What's going on in orthostatic intolerance (symptoms triggered by standing or sitting up) has been well described - from the outside. We can see heart rates go up...
Why Cold Exposure May Help with ME/CFS, Fibromyalgia and Long COVID
Geoff's Narrations The GIST Treatment Takeaways The Blog if you can handle them brief exposures to intense cold could help with chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, orthostatic intolerance, and long COVID Note that in addition to The Gist, a Treatment...
Jen’s Rinvoq ME/CFS Recovery Pt. II: JAK Inhibitors in ME/CFS and Long COVID
Geoff's Narrations Treatment Takeaways The Blog Jen X's remarkable and full recovery from a long-term case of severe ME/CFS using Rinvoq, otherwise known as upadacitinib, has put it and the other "citinib" drugs in the...
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