An ME/CFS Sleep Study Goes Where No Sleep Study Has Gone Before
Geoff's Narrations The GIST The Blog If sleep is what we do to feel better, it hasn’t been doing its job very well in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). Almost everyone with this disease experiences non-restorative/non-refreshing...
A Search for Treatments Pervades New Efforts on Long COVID and ME/CFS
Geoff's Narrations The GIST The Blog The GIST is about halfway down the page on the right We don't know how chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), long COVID, fibromyalgia, and allied diseases are going to be beaten, but one thing is pretty clear - it's going to...
Another Balky Metabolic Pathway in ME/CFS? The Pentose Pathway, Low Oxygen, Blood Vessel, and Even Neuroinflammation Connection
Geoff's Narrations The GIST and Treatment Takeaways The Blog What's going on in orthostatic intolerance (symptoms triggered by standing or sitting up) has been well described - from the outside. We can see heart rates go up...
Why Cold Exposure May Help with ME/CFS, Fibromyalgia and Long COVID
Geoff's Narrations The GIST Treatment Takeaways The Blog if you can handle them brief exposures to intense cold could help with chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, orthostatic intolerance, and long COVID Note that in addition to The Gist, a Treatment...
Jen’s Rinvoq ME/CFS Recovery Pt. II: JAK Inhibitors in ME/CFS and Long COVID
Geoff's Narrations Treatment Takeaways The Blog Jen X's remarkable and full recovery from a long-term case of severe ME/CFS using Rinvoq, otherwise known as upadacitinib, has put it and the other "citinib" drugs in the...
From Severe ME/CFS to Healed: Jen’s Remarkable Rinvoq ME/CFS Recovery Story
Geoff's Narrations The GIST The Blog Thanks to Jen X for providing her remarkable story. Jen’s story likely fits a subset of ME/CFS patients but may be particularly significant given her family history of ME/CFS and ME/CFS-like illnesses. Cort [types...
Health Rising’s 2024 BIG (little) End of the Year Donation Drive Has Begun!
Yes, it's that time again. We're asking you for your support. Health Rising’s BIG (little) year-end fundraising drive is on. We call it the BIG (little) fundraising drive because it’s our BIG drive, but our needs – though real – are puny compared to other...
The Exhausted Immune Cell Sweepstakes: Spanish Group Proposes Exhausted T-cells and Pituitary Damage are Driving ME/CFS
Geoff's Narrations The GIST The Blog It's getting exhausting keeping up with these immune exhaustion studies. Avindra Nath has proposed that B-cell exhaustion is driving ME/CFS, but in "Hypocortisolemic ASIA: a vaccine- and...
ME/CFS – An Immune, Autonomic Nervous System, Brain and Gut Disease: A Talk with Dr. Avindra Nath and Dr. Vicky Whittemore
Geoff's Narrations The GIST The Blog Bronc Brings a UK perspective to U.S. ME/CFS matters as he talks with Avindra Nath and Vickie Whittemore as he digs into the big intramural study and the road ahead for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) [types...
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