Myoglobin, Platelets and Monocytes, Oh My: The IACFS/ME Conference Review #III
In part III of Health Rising's coverage of the 2022 IACFS/ME Conference, we cover presentations by members of Maureen Hanson's NIH-funded ME/CFS research center. Systrom’s Keynote Address Kicks off IACFS/ME ME/CFS and Long-COVID Conference The Hugely Predictive Factor...
“How Long?” For People with Long COVID, asks Powerful National Public Service Announcement
How long, indeed? Some people with long COVID are now entering their third miserable year with the illness. They can't be happy. Their doctors are at a loss. Treatment trials are underway, but most are too small or poorly run to light up the medical world. The huge...
Is the Entire Autonomic Nervous System Messed Up in Fibromyalgia?
Fibromyalgia (FM) researchers recently pointed an arrow at a rarely studied part of the brain - the brainstem - and proposed that a "convergence of autonomic regulation and pain modulation systems" had occurred in FM....
The Hugely Predictive Factor for Long COVID…is also found in ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia: the IACFS/ME Conference II
This is the second in a series of blogs on the IACFS/ME 2022 International Conference on ME/CFS (and long COVID). The last one focused on David Systrom's Keynote address. This one focused on an hour-long talk that kicked off the keynote session. Systrom’s Keynote...
Breathing Better in ME/CFS and Long COVID? The Inspiratory Muscle Training Trial
The Breathing/Oxygen series on Health Rising continues with a rare clinical trial in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) that's designed to improve breathing, increase blood CO2 levels, and hopefully improve a wide number of symptoms. The Breathing/Oxygen Series on...
Systrom’s Keynote Address Kicks off IACFS/ME ME/CFS and Long-COVID Conference
Keynote Talk: David Systrom - Pathophysiology of exercise intolerance in ME/CFS & Long COVID (Text in parentheses was not part of the talk and was added by me). David Systrom started off his long and stimulating keynote talk, "Keynote: Pathophysiology of exercise...
Oxygen Short? Microcirculatory Problems Could Explain Long COVID (and ME/CFS)
New MRI technique reveals the oxygen from the lungs is having trouble getting through to the small blood vessels in long COVID. It could explain shortness of breath and exercise problems in long COVID and possibly ME/CFS. The Breathing-Oxygen series continues on...
Hydrogen Rich Water II: New ME/CFS Study – New ME/CFS Hypothesis
Two years ago, Health Rising posted about Fred Friedberg's small hydrogen water clinical trial for ME/CFS. Hydrogen water appears to potentially present a relatively cheap, easy, and safe way to possibly help with a number of issues in ME/CFS: reduce inflammation,...
Brain-Fog, Fibro-Fog, Chemo-Fog, COVID-Fog – Are They All the Same?
A longtime cancer fatigue researcher finds the same microglial cell abnormalities in long COVID. Glial Cells to the Fore Again Chemo fog, brain fog, fibro fog - even "COVID fog" - it's a foggy world out there for people with cancer-related fatigue (chemo fog), brain...
