Finding Answers for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia

Fibromyalgia – Do You Even Have It? The Brady Approach to FM

by Cort Johnson | Aug 22, 2017 | 36 Comments

Naturopath and nutritionist, Dr. David Brady's taken a kind of media driven, rock-star approach to alternative health. He's got the flashy website; he's written the book with the catchy title, "The Fibro Fix: Get to the Root of Your Fibromyalgia and Start Reversing...

“Never Give Up”: Disabled Teacher Scores Victory Over ME/CFS Discrimination in the U.K

by Cort Johnson | Aug 20, 2017 | 1 Comment

Pike was in a bind. His severe ME/CFS meant that he needed financial help, but two trips by medical examiners produced such biased reports as to bring him to tears. He was so dismayed by the inaccurate reports that he regretted trying in the first place. A month...

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

by Cort Johnson | Aug 16, 2017 | 78 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...

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