Finding Answers for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia

Fibromyalgia Neuroinflammation Finding Could Open New Treatment Options

by Cort Johnson | Oct 13, 2018 | 33 Comments

"Finding an objective neurochemical change in the brains of people who are used to being told that their problems are imaginary is pretty important…" Marco Loggia Jarred Younger has believed for quite some time that the glial cells in fibromyalgia patients' brains are...

CDC Roundtable, Multisite Study and Dr. Klimas’ Attempt to Permanently “Reset” Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)

by Cort Johnson | Oct 10, 2018 | 52 Comments

Roundtable The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) flew in about 40 people from over two dozen organizations for the one-day CDC Roundtable on Medical Education and ME/CFS. It was a busy 24 hours. Everyone flew in the night before to a hotel near the airport, spent the...

A Grant Generation Machine: The SMCI’s 2016 Ramsay Award Winners Score

by Cort Johnson | Oct 3, 2018 | 15 Comments

As we know, grant applications in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) are hard to come by. Freedom of Information Requests indicate that the NIH received the lowest number of ME/CFS grant applications in memory last year - just 15. Since the NIH spends MUCH more money...

Post Treatment Lyme Disease Unmasked? Immune Hole in the Illness Identified

by Cort Johnson | Oct 1, 2018 | 2 Comments

Why some people with Lyme disease fail to recover after antibiotic treatment is a question that touches not only on them but on other commonly post-infectious illnesses like ME/CFS, FM and POTS. Further work is needed but an answer could be at hand. Not only did a...

Could the Brain’s Mast Cells Be Causing Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)?

by Cort Johnson | Sep 30, 2018 | 0 Comments

Theoharis Theoharides believes that metabolic problems are present in ME/CFS but he has a new idea why they're occurring. In a hypothesis where mast cells meet the brain, Theoharides proposes that mast cells in the hypothalamus are pouring out neuro-inflammatory...

Invasion: The Source of the Neuroinflammation in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?

by Cort Johnson | Sep 25, 2018 | 55 Comments

Breaches in the Barrier The last article reported that Younger speculated that people with chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) have an immune-triggered metabolic disorder. The widespread neuroinflammation found in ME/CFS patients provides a clue, he thinks, to what's...

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