What? Study Finds No Neuroinflammation in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)
Study Presents Alternative Findings Neuroinflammation has almost seemed like a slam dunk in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). Nakatomi's small 2014 study (n=19) set the stage when it reported finding widespread neuroinflammation. A widespread, low-level...
Health Rising’s 2021 BIG (little) End of the Year Fundraising Drive Has Begun!
It's that time again. Health Rising's BIG (little) fundraising drive. We call it the BIG (little) fundraising drive because it's our BIG drive but our needs - though real - are small compared to the research and advocacy organizations that are doing so much for us. We...
Enhancing Butyrate and Gut Health in ME/CFS, Fibromyalgia, Long COVID and Allied Disorders
Several studies suggest that butyrate-producing bacteria are reduced in people with chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and possibly fibromyalgia (FM) and long COVID. The fact that three different techniques have found reduced levels of butyrate-reducing bacteria in...
Something Akin to Heart Failure May Be Occurring in the Muscles of Long-COVID Patients (and People with ME/CFS)
It didn't take David Systrom long to take on long COVID. Systrom - the Harvard pulmonologist whose invasive exercise tests are redefining how we think about chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) - didn't lead this study but helped design, analyze it, and write the paper....
The 2021 Ramsay Awards: Leaky Brains, Healing the Gut-Brain Axis / Pathological Antibodies / Breathing Better? And More
The Solve ME Initiative's Ramsay Awards play an important role in the ME/CFS research field. Consisting of small grants designed to generate enough data to allow researchers to get bigger grants, they've supported many prominent ME/CFS researchers including Jarred...
Does Mast Cell Activation Explain IBS (and Fibromyalgia and ME/CFS)?
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a pretty big deal. The most common gut disorder, IBS, costs the U.S. economy about $1 billion a year and occurs in a considerable number of people with chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and/or fibromyalgia (FM). It, ME/CFS and FM,...
Major Study Links Gut Bacteria to Fatigue in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)
Led by Cheng Guo (lead author) and Brent L. Williams (senior author) this big NIH-funded study from Ian Lipkin's Columbia team at the "Center for Solutions for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CfS for ME/CFS)" set out to fix some of the problems...
AXA1125 – A New Mitochondrial Enhancer Is Being Trialed in Long COVID
I have a feeling that interesting treatment trials for long COVID may become a regular blog topic on Health Rising. That would be a nice change. Treatment trials have been chronic fatigue syndrome's Achilles heel. Except for cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and...
Health Rising’s Coronarvirus Infection and Vaccine Side Effect Poll: Take II
It's been over ten months since Health Rising published its first coronavirus vaccine side effects poll. At that point only 6 1/2% of the U.S. population had been vaccinated. Since then, vaccines have become readily available and over 189 million people or 59% of...
