by Cort Johnson | Jul 26, 2017 | Homepage, Research
The NIH’s Intramural study constitutes the biggest “fishing expedition” ever done in this disease. From stays in metabolic chambers, to ME/CFS patients immune systems being transplanted into mice, to their “brains” (neurons) being grown...
by Cort Johnson | Jul 15, 2017 | Homepage, Immune, Research
Subsets, Subsets, Subsets Everyone with ME/CFS who’s been around a bit must ask themselves at some point, “Do I have what she or he has?” Some people do great on treatments that others fail on. Some people get really, really sick while others...
by Cort Johnson | Jul 12, 2017 | Fibromyalgia, Homepage, Treatment
“The most effective way to reduce spinal cord inflammation” Dr. Ginerva Liptan Dr. Liptan came to specialize in fibromyalgia after coming down with the disease in medical school. She employs an integrative approach to the disease which includes, as she...
by Cort Johnson | Jul 10, 2017 | Fibromyalgia, Homepage, Treatment
Low dose naltrexone (LDN) is becoming more and more widely used in fibromyalgia (FM) and chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). You can chart that use right back to Jarred Younger’s two small FM trials in 2009 and 2013. Now Younger’s back with a third trial...
by Cort Johnson | Jul 8, 2017 | Fibromyalgia, Homepage, Treatment
It wasn’t supposed to go this way. Daiichi Sankyo bet big, big money that it’s safer, more effective version of Lyrica (pregabalin) called Mirogabalin was going to be the next big thing in fibromaylgia (FM). It was so confident that it embarked on a...
