A Long COVID / ME/CFS Moment Featuring NIH Director Monica Bertagnolli
An ME/CFS or long-COVID moment is an indication that something in the force has shifted - that these diseases are making headway in ways they have not before. As we go along in our day-to-day lives, it's easy to forget that signs of significant shifts are occurring -...
The Central Nervous System Sensory Disorders: Dr. Clauw on Fibromyalgia, ME/CFS and Long COVID
Geoff's Narrations The GIST The Blog (Please note that I have added parts to this blog that were not covered in our talk.) It was great to get an opportunity to talk to Daniel Clauw M.D. who, with his hundreds of publications, was a key figure in helping drag the...
Landmark Two-Day ME/CFS Exercise Study Pt 2: The Treatment Section
Geoff's Narrations The GIST The Blog The GIST is at the bottom of the blog. Studies often have a treatment section at the end of the paper, but I've never seen anything like the one that showed up at the end of a study Health Rising recently covered. The...
A Talk with Dr. Nancy Klimas and Halie Pomroy on ME/CFS and long COVID
Haylie Pomroy - the Assistant Director of Integrative Medicine Institute for Neuro-Immune Medicine at NovaSoutheastern University - talked with Dr. Klimas and me about chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), fibromyalgia, and long COVID. It was a general discussion...
Could a Widespread Ion Channelopathy be Causing ME/CFS, Long COVID and Gulf War Illness
Geoff's Narrations The GIST The Blog The "transient receptor potential melastatin 3" (better known as TRPM3) saga in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is really something. It's an example of one group - and only one group - gloaming onto something in...
Study Finds Fatigued ME/CFS Brains Unable to Adapt to Cognitive Stress
Geoff's Narrations The GIST The Blog BOLD MRIs sound like the ticket for diseases like chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and long COVID. BOLD MRIs measure blood oxygen levels (energy production) across the brain and what could be more telling than that? [types...
Shooting for the Moon: The $11 Billion Long COVID / ME/CFS / POTS / Lyme Moonshot
An $11 billion dollar moonshot for long COVID, ME/CFS and other post-infectious diseases… Now that's real money! The Patient-Led Research Collaborative for Long COVID called the "The Long COVID Research Moonshot Act of 2024" a "historic step" for long COVID and...
The IBS Surprise: Mast Cells not the Main Culprit + Introducing the Nociplastic Disease Club (ME/CFS, FM, IBS, Long COVID, etc.)
Geoff's Narrations The GIST The Blog Health Rising hasn't published much on irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and that's a shame. Not only is it present in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), fibromyalgia (FM), and long COVID, but IBS is part of a family of disorders that...
Bringing Together the Old and the New: Could Herpesviruses be Impacting Blood Flows in ME/CFS and Long COVID?
Geoff's Narration The Blog "Endothelial dysfunction and herpesvirus activity are two characteristics of ME/CFS pathology that have yet to be officially linked. " The authors Herpesviruses have been mentioned in connection with...
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