Emerging Insights #1: McGregor’s Grand Conception of ME/CFS
This is the first in a series of blogs that report on the recent EMERGE conference in Australia. The different conference format - which allowed for long presentations - allowed the presenters to dig more deeply into their topics than usual. Longtime Australian...
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A Calcium Channel Blocker for ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia? Nimodipine Pt. II
Remy provides the second in a series of blogs on using nimidopine - a calcium channel blocking drug - in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and fibromyalgia (FM). As described in Dr. Katherine Downing-Orr’s 2010 book, "Beating Chronic Fatigue Your step by step guide to...
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The Nimodipine Way? A Review of “Beating Chronic Fatigue: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Complete Recovery”
"The Fusion model aims to…replenish and strengthen the body so that it can" heal itself. Dr. Downing-Orr I glommed onto this rather old book (2010) and treatment protocol with interest because it was so different. For one thing, its medical approach is centered on a...
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The Fatigue “Superconference” is About to Begin
It's spring and that means the online alternative health conferences are here. Coming up tomorrow and running from June 10th-17th is the most comprehensive online fatigue conference I've seen. If you're open to alternative health approaches to ME/CFS, FM or other...
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Dr. Montoya Responds to the Events of the Last Week
Through his attorney David Nied of the Astralegal group, Dr. Montoya provided the following statement to Health Rising regarding the events of the past week. Health Rising covered them in this recent post. From David Nied: Following is a statement from my client, Dr....
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Eleven years ago, Dr. Jose Montoya bucked his mentor's advice to stay away from ME/CFS at all costs. In 2008, he made history by opening one of the first chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) clinic/research centers at a top university. While the promise of his research...
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Rare Gene Mutations May Be Affecting Energy Levels in ME/CFS
Dr. Camille Birch has a PhD in biomedical engineering and hails from the Hudson Alpha Institute for Biotechnology at Huntsville, Alabama. Hudson Alpha, only 11 years old, is one of those new biotechnology efforts that's using sophisticated bioinformatics to understand...
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Spinal Stenosis, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) and Fibromyalgia: The Spinal Series #3
The Spinal Series This is part three of a series examining spinal issues which may mimic chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and fibromyalgia. The first two in the series involved two very ill ME/CFS patients who have recovered or are recovering following surgery to...
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New Immune Cell Findings Unite Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and U.K. ME/CFS Researchers
In decades of immune research, nobody has ever called attention to the specialized T-cells called MAIT cells in ME/CFS. Recently, though, two research efforts, working independently, have highlighted these unique cells - which form a bridge between the gut and the...
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