Finding Answers for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia

The Probiotic Paradox: When Probiotics Fail or Even Do Harm – an ME/CFS Perspective

by Cort Johnson | Dec 18, 2018 | 5 Comments

Tens of billions of dollars ($36 billion in 2015) are spent on probiotics in the U.S. every year. Two recent Isreali studies, though, suggest that some of that money is being spent in vain. The study revealed that while some people may benefit from probiotics, others...

Deconditioning Denied: Could a Large ME/CFS Study Put an End to the Deconditioning Myth?

by Cort Johnson | Dec 16, 2018 | 31 Comments

The Deconditioned ME/CFS Patient? A huge (n=345) 1998 UK study set the stage. The smaller, less muscular hearts and carotid arteries found in ME/CFS made it clear - at least to those researchers - that both physical and cardiovascular deconditioning was present in...

Healing Chronic Illness with Nutritional Balancing: Darden’s ME/CFS and FM Story

by Darden Burns | Dec 14, 2018 | 9 Comments

(Thanks to Darden for allowing Health Rising to republish her blog - which was first published on her Fibrofriends website In September of 2017 I embarked on a healing program using Nutritional Balancing under the supervision of a licensed acupuncturist named Theresa...

Death in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) – What has it Told Us? The Autopsy Files

by Cort Johnson | Dec 12, 2018 | 62 Comments

It's always hard to lose a loved one, but the deaths in ME/CFS seem particularly hard. They tend to be quite painful, they often take place in the midst of a non-supportive medical system, and they're a complete mystery. With no seeming way out it's no wonder that...

The Basics: A Guide to Learning, Sharing and Making a Difference in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)

by Cort Johnson | Dec 10, 2018 | 25 Comments

Welcome to Health Rising. This page is designed to give you basic information on chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and provide opportunities for you to learn about it, share your experiences, and participate in bringing about the end of this disease. It is focused on...

Ten Ways to Prove That Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) is a Serious Illness

by Cort Johnson | Dec 7, 2018 | 34 Comments

Chronic fatigue syndrome is a terrible name. It's such a terrible name that you have to give the people around you a little break. With that name, they're almost doomed, at least at first, to think ME/CFS is a milquetoast kind of disease best suited to the malingerers...

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