Chris Armstrong and the Hunt for the Metabolic Underpinnings of ME/CFS
Chris Armstrong PhD (biochemistry and molecular biology) was there at the beginning of the metabolomics field in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). In fact, Armstrong was the lead author of the first ME/CFS metabolomics study published in 2012. I asked him how he got...
20-Year Study Finds High Rates of Metabolic Dysfunctions in Exercise Intolerance: Promotes Metabolic Treatments
This unusual paper "Investigating Fatigue and Exercise Intolerance in a University Immunology Clinic" is the outcome of 20 years' work (1998-2019) at the SUNY University immunology clinic in Buffalo, New York by the primary care doctors, rheumatologists, and others...
Oxaloacetate: the Best Mitochondrial Supplement for ME/CFS (and Long COVID?)
Health Rising's fourth IACFS/ME conference overview is also its fifth in a series on possible mitochondrial enhancers in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and fibromyalgia. Like the last overview on n-acetyl-cysteine (NAC), this supplement - called oxaloacetate (OAA)...
IACFS/ME Conference 2021 Pt. III – the Exercise Studies: Long COVID Moves Closer to ME/CFS, Metabolomic Weirdness, Two Symptoms to Rule Them All?
The overviews of the 2021 IACFS/ME Conference continue with a focus on exercise studies. "A Huge Problem and Major Crisis": Avindra Nath on Long COVID at the IACFS/ME 2021 Conference "Emerging Options for Autoimmune ME/CFS": Scheibenbogen at...
The You+M.E. ME/CFS Patient Registry Turns 1 Year Old: Is It Working?
“I firmly believe that a global registry and biobank will be the single most impactful driver of progress in ME/CFS, deepening our understanding, helping us pick apart the heterogeneity, and driving us towards treatments.” Sadie Whittaker – SMCI The You+M.E. Patient...
Fecal Transplants – Do They Work? An IBS / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) Perspective
This is the second in a series of blogs exploring potential gut treatments for chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), fibromyalgia (FM), and allied disorders. https://www.healthrising.org/blog/2021/09/23/fermented-foods-fiber-stanford-gut-study/ The first fecal transplant...
Fermenting Health? The Stanford Fermented Foods / High Fiber Gut Study
More studies need to be done, but it appears that something has gone awry in the gut flora of people that's impacting the symptoms found in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), fibromyalgia (FM), Gulf War Illness (GWI), and now, it appears, long COVID. That's not a...
NIH Launches Mammoth Effort to Understand and Treat Long COVID
The big National Institutes of Health (NIH) effort on long COVID is rolling. It hasn't come easily or quickly and the NIH has a lot of catching up to do. The world has known long COVID is a serious problem since last summer, but you wouldn't have known it by the NIH....
“Emerging Options for Autoimmune ME/CFS”: Scheibenbogen at the 2021 IACFS/ME Conference
This is the second in a series of blogs on the virtual 2021 International IACFS/ME Conference, “A Huge Problem and Major Crisis”: Avindra Nath on Long COVID at the IACFS/ME 2021 Conference Dr. Scheibenbogen shows the impact that a leader in the field can have....
