Energy Enhancers for ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia Pt II: L-carnitine and Acetylcarnitine
This is the second part in a series on mitochondrial enhancers for chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and/or fibromyalgia (FM). The series uses the book “Mitochondria and the Future of Medicine”, by Lee Know, a former naturopathic doctor in Canada, as a starting point,...
Damaged Small Nerve Fibers May be Causing Energy Problems in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)
David Systrom, the Harvard pulmonologist, is digging ever deeper into his ME/CFS patients. Systrom and his invasive exercise tests have broke open our understanding of what's going on during exercise. Through Systrom's work, we now know much more about what's going...
Major Fibromyalgia Muscle Study Points to the Mitochondria
The muscles, the mitochondria and fibromyalgia - what a potentially potent mix. Over the past six months, at least three fibromyalgia muscle studies have popped up. (Health Rising has reviewed all three). Plus, a study examining energy production problems in...
The US ME/CFS Clinician Coalition Treatment Recommendations
The US ME/CFS Clinician Coalition Created in 2018 by a group of U.S. physicians, the US ME/CFS Clinician Coalition is dedicated to advancing best medical practices to medical providers on how to best diagnose and treat ME/CFS. Since 2018, the word has gotten out and...
Does Anthony Fauci Finally Get It About Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)?
Has the Darth Vader of the ME/CFS Movement Changed His Tune? Anthony Fauci has led the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for 36 years. The man must be doing something right. Neither HIV/AIDS, SARS,...
ME/CFS/FM Experts On Whether to Get Vaccinated – Take II, Plus the Coronavirus Vaccine Improvements Poll and a Roundup on Past Poll Results
This blog contains: the race between the vaccines and the variants wrap-ups of the 1st Coronavirus Vaccine and the Severely Ill Vaccine polls, ME/CFS/FM experts' second take on whether or not to take the vaccination a Vaccine Improvements Poll. The Race Between the...
Novel Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) Brain Stimulation Clinical Trial Begins
The Mission Solve M.E.'s Chief Scientific Officer, Sadie Whittaker, was on a mission. She wanted to get chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) embedded in one of the top medical schools in the country. UCLA, located in the tony Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, has an...
The Ending Suffering Project for ME/CFS, Fibromyalgia, Long COVID, and Allied Disorders
"Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional." Buddhist saying Something new has become possible with the long-COVID funding. Long sought answers to ME/CFS are not a pipe dream anymore but appear achievable. They will, however, take some time to emerge. Yet many people...
Could High-Dose Thiamine (B-1) Help with ME/CFS, Fibromyalgia, and the Neurological Complications of Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome?
Longtime readers of the Health Rising blog may remember an article that Cort wrote in 2013 about the promising results of a small study that found marked reductions in fatigue among three individuals with Fibromyalgia who took high doses of thiamine (Vitamin B-1)....
