by Cort Johnson | Oct 19, 2019 | Exercise, Homepage, Workwell
Just about everyone with chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) has the sense that the disease has an astonishing ability to fall through the cracks. It’s a major disease that affects around a million people in the U.S. yet gets very little funding. It has no home at... 
by Cort Johnson | Oct 14, 2019 | Autonomic Nervous System, Brain, Brainstem, Fibromyalgia and Pain, Gulf War Illness, Inflammation, Ion Channels, Mast cell activation syndrome
When you have a systemic disease, any part of your body can provide a clue – even your nose. Over 15 years from 1998 to 2012, James Baraniuk, a longtime ME/CFS and GWI researcher at Georgetown University, became the first and thus far the last person to try and... 
by Cort Johnson | Oct 11, 2019 | Exercise, Homepage
It’s the toughest and perhaps most discerning test of all. The two-day maximal exercise test requires that one exercise to exhaustion (or nearly so) two days in a row. In truth, the test is over quickly: it starts out with mild pedaling on a bicycle which slowly... 
by Cort Johnson | Oct 7, 2019 | Homepage
A four-day ME/CFS and fatigue conference “Fatigue: A Complex Diagnosis and Treatment Dilemma” is about to begin in Lexington, Kentucky – and – in what was apparently something of a last minute decision – the producers of the conference... 
by Cort Johnson | Oct 6, 2019 | Energy Production, Homepage, Myhill
The ATP Profiles test developed by Dr John McLaren-Howard (and the Mitochondrial Energy Score developed from it) has been a big deal for the chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) community. The test formed the basis for studies dating back to 2009 by Dr. Myhill, Dr....
