From Severe ME/CFS to Healed: Jen’s Remarkable Rinvoq ME/CFS Recovery Story
Geoff's Narrations The GIST The Blog Thanks to Jen X for providing her remarkable story. Jen’s story likely fits a subset of ME/CFS patients but may be particularly significant given her family history of ME/CFS and ME/CFS-like illnesses. Cort [types...
Health Rising’s 2024 BIG (little) End of the Year Donation Drive Has Begun!
Yes, it's that time again. We're asking you for your support. Health Rising’s BIG (little) year-end fundraising drive is on. We call it the BIG (little) fundraising drive because it’s our BIG drive, but our needs – though real – are puny compared to other...
The Exhausted Immune Cell Sweepstakes: Spanish Group Proposes Exhausted T-cells and Pituitary Damage are Driving ME/CFS
Geoff's Narrations The GIST The Blog It's getting exhausting keeping up with these immune exhaustion studies. Avindra Nath has proposed that B-cell exhaustion is driving ME/CFS, but in "Hypocortisolemic ASIA: a vaccine- and...
ME/CFS – An Immune, Autonomic Nervous System, Brain and Gut Disease: A Talk with Dr. Avindra Nath and Dr. Vicky Whittemore
Geoff's Narrations The GIST The Blog Bronc Brings a UK perspective to U.S. ME/CFS matters as he talks with Avindra Nath and Vickie Whittemore as he digs into the big intramural study and the road ahead for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) [types...
Network Medicine for ME/CFS: Wenzhong Xiao and the Open Medicine Foundation’s Severe ME/CFS Big Data Study
Geoff's Narrations The GIST The Blog The OMF's Severe ME/CFS Big Data Study Remember the Open Medicine Foundation's Severe ME/CFS Big Data study? Initiated in 2015, it was one of three unusually large and expensive ME/CFS studies (Intramural Study NIH, CDC's...
Damaged Mitochondria – the Original Sin? The Recent Mitochondrial ME/CFS Studies
Geoff's Narrations The GIST The Blog The second of a series of blogs on recent findings on the mitochondria in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), long COVID, and fibromyalgia focuses on ME/CFS. The Mitochondria in Long COVID Pt....
Lorrie’s Healing Long COVID and ME/CFS Virtual Summit is Coming Up!
Lorrie Rivers is back with a 7-day "Long Covid and ME/CFS Holistic Healing Virtual Summit". Online summits are all over the place and Health Rising gets many requests to promote them, but we only promote a few and always promote Lorrie's. Why? Because Lorrie has...
Creatine – An Alternative Mitochondrial Energy Source for ME/CFS, Fibromyalgia, Long COVID?
Geoff's Narrations The GIST The Blog Thanks to Dr. Craig for providing more insights into diets and supplements that may be able to support people with chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), long COVID, and allied diseases. Creatine - long known to sports...
The Mitochondria in Long COVID Pt. I: Are Core Problems Being Uncovered?
Geoff's Narrations The GIST The Blog Health Rising recently reported on studies suggesting that a hypermetabolic state that damages the mitochondria results in a hypometabolic state in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), long...