Finding Answers for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia

Exercise Tests Suggest Autoimmunity Causes the Exertion Problems in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia and POTS

by Cort Johnson | Aug 16, 2017 | 59 Comments

Researchers and doctors get interested in ME/CFS in different ways. Many have a personal connection, but for David Systrom, a pulmonologist, it was all about demand. He didn't seek chronic fatigue syndrome patients out - quite the contrary. When Systrom was given...

Open Medicine Foundation Symposium to Highlight Metabolic/Immune Results

by Cort Johnson | Aug 5, 2017 | 18 Comments

Ron Davis has been wanting to bring experts in from around the world to collaborate on ME/CFS every since he got started in this field. Next week it's actually happening. The Open Medicine Foundation is going to give the ME/CFS Community a first look at their findings...

Epigenetics Study Highlights Metabolic Problems in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)

by Cort Johnson | Jul 30, 2017 | 17 Comments

There was a time that the HPA axis was "it" in chronic fatigue syndrome. More studies have been done on the powerful glucocorticoid hormone cortisol than other factor in ME/CFS, and it's not hard to understand why. Cortisol not only plays a major role in the stress...

Global Pain, Fibromyalgia and the Insula – Ground Zero for Pain and Stimuli Issues in FM?

by Cort Johnson | Jul 27, 2017 | 16 Comments

The "Global Pain" Diseases There are two kinds of "pain" in fibromyalgia. There's a more ordinary kind of pain - the burning, stabbing, aching, etc. usually associated with some type of injury (even though no overt physical injuries are present in FM), and then...

The Big Fishing Expedition: Report from the NIH’s Intramural Study

by Cort Johnson | Jul 26, 2017 | 1 Comment

The NIH's Intramural study constitutes the biggest "fishing expedition" ever done in this disease. From stays in metabolic chambers, to ME/CFS patients immune systems being transplanted into mice, to their "brains" (neurons) being grown in a dish, this study is going...

Early Results Suggest Two Radically Different Immune Subsets Present in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)

by Cort Johnson | Jul 15, 2017 | 87 Comments

Subsets, Subsets, Subsets Everyone with ME/CFS who's been around a bit must ask themselves at some point, "Do I have what she or he has?" Some people do great on treatments that others fail on. Some people get really, really sick while others maintain at least a...

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