by Cort Johnson | Dec 11, 2019 | Energy Production, Exercise, Homepage, Hypoxia, Muscles
David Systrom, a Harvard pulmonologist, uses invasive CPET tests to find that oxygen extraction problems at the muscle level are common in ME/CFS. Chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) has a reputation for falling through the cracks. Test after test is run to no avail. ... 
by Cort Johnson | Dec 9, 2019 | Dextromethorphan, Fibromyalgia, Fibromyalgia and Pain, Homepage, Ketamine
What do a vaccine, a cough suppressant, a drug with only numbers for a name, an anesthetic, and the new migraine drugs have in common? They’re all either being tested in an FM clinical trial or are about to be. FM may not be getting a lot of research but... 
by Cort Johnson | Dec 7, 2019 | Antivirals, Gut, Microbiome
A Gulf War Illness study finds a connection between dysregulated gut flora, leaky gut and neuroinflammation – and a new way to potentially resolve it. It’s nice when the government has your back. After years of neglect, the federal government finally... 
by Cort Johnson | Dec 5, 2019 | Brain, Brainstem, Homepage
The most primitive part of the brain, the brainstem – a part of “the reptilian brain” – doesn’t get much respect in medical research. VanElzakker pointed out that most brain scan studies focus on the upper, more highly developed parts of... 
by Cort Johnson | Dec 4, 2019 | Advocacy, Exercise, Homepage
A British film team travels to the Central Valley in California to ask the exercise physiologists at Workwell about the effectiveness of graded exercise therapy (GET) in ME/CFS. Then they turn to the notorious PACE trial. First Voices – then Dialogues –...
