Thanks for Your Help! + a Short Blog Vacation
Thanks to the 600 or so people ('m still counting) who supported Health Rising on our end-of-the-year/beginning-of-the-year donation drive. I'll report on the final totals when I get caught up but it's clear the drive went very well. Thanks very much for your support!...
The Long COVID Clinical Trials: Big Drugs, Big Studies…and More
The bottom line is always treatments. Long COVID has brought a ton of interest to post-infectious illnesses. Researchers are asking whether they are actually autoimmune diseases, how big of a role coagulation or gut microbiome problems play, if viral reactivation is...
The Younger Interview: Neuroinflammation, a Brain Invasion?, Psilocybin Trial,and More…
The building is dark - the doors are locked - everything has been shut down. It's early 2020 and the coronavirus pandemic has struck. A figure walks down the street, pauses - briefly peers into the entrance - and moves on. He turns left at the end of the building,...
Could the Kynurenine Pathway Be Causing ME/CFS, FM and Long COVID?
These metabolic pathways can really be something. Pathways by their nature can be kind of all-encompassing. We could think of the bigger ones like major rivers that send out tributaries that affect multiple systems. Tryptophan and the kynurenine pathways are one of...
The RECOVER Initiative Interview: Will 30 Years of ME/CFS Make a Difference?
Is the RECOVER Initiative listening to 30 years of experience? Time will tell. The RECOVER Initiative is not just a big deal for long COVID; it's potentially a very big deal for chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome, fibromyalgia,...
Metformin – A Long COVID, Fibromyalgia and ME/CFS Buster?
Another week - another fascinating drug connection pops up in long COVID. A preprint of a long-COVID study, "Outpatient treatment of Covid-19 with metformin, ivermectin, and fluvoxamine - and the development of Long Covid over a 10-month follow-up", recently reported...
A Repurposed Drug Revolution for long COVID, ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia?
The intense interest in long COVID should spur many repurposed drug trials. If there's one thing we might hope for - and expect - to happen over the next year or two is for a flurry of repurposed drugs to get trialed in long COVID. It just makes sense. Repurposed...
Celebrating 10 Years of Health Rising… and Looking Forward to the Future
Health Rising Begins 2012 was a pretty good year for starting things. The Open Medicine Foundation, Dysautonomia International, and Health Rising all opened their doors ten years ago. On Dec. 29, 2012, Health Rising published its first blog, "Cort Johnson Says...
The HBOT Hope: Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Fibromyalgia, ME/CFS and Long COVID Plus the HBOT Poll
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy seems like an obvious choice for energy-depleted people with ME/CFS, long COVID, and fibromyalgia... But can it deliver the goods? It seems so obvious. How could delivering massive amounts of oxygen to energy-depleted, oxygen-deprived long...
