by Cort Johnson | Aug 21, 2019 | Cannabis, Homepage
Part IV of our “Marijuana as Medicine for ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia Series” focuses on a general Cannabis treatment approach. Health Rising’s Marijuana as Medicine for ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia Series Pt I: Marijuana as Medicine for ME/CFS and/or... 
by Cort Johnson | Aug 19, 2019 | Homepage
Our Weird Idea History has shown that giving away information for free is a pretty lousy business plan, but that’s been the plan for the past fifteen years. Nobody with these diseases, in particular, should have to pay for information. While Health Rising is... 
by Cort Johnson | Aug 17, 2019 | Cannabis, Homepage
For the relief of certain kinds of pain, I believe, there is no more useful medicine than Cannabis within our reach. Sir John Russell Reynolds 1859 This is the third part of a five-part series on the use of Cannabis in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and... 
by Cort Johnson | Aug 14, 2019 | Fibromyalgia and Pain, Homepage, Small Fiber Neuropathy, Stimuli-hypersensitivity
Some studies a field waits for – and this is one. The past nerve fiber studies in fibromyalgia (FM) have tended to be small and use different methods and criteria – making it difficult to be clear about the extent of the problem. When a field gets to a... 
by Cort Johnson | Aug 12, 2019 | BDNF, Brain, Homepage, Insula, Limbic System, Small Fiber Neuropathy
It seemed ever so clear. The reduction in the number of small nerves in the skin and eyes of roughly forty percent or so of the people with fibromyalgia (FM) and chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) must bring the body – as opposed to the brain – into play....
