by Cort Johnson | Oct 2, 2019 | Cortisol, Exercise, Homepage, Hormones, Klimas, Limbic System, Neuroinflammation, Sex hormones
How close are we to understanding chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) when we can accurately predict how the greatest stressor of all – exercise – affects ME/CFS patients’ physiology? Nothing, after all, whacks a person with ME/CFS like exercise.... 
by Cort Johnson | Sep 28, 2019 | Cortisol, Exercise, Homepage, Hormones, Metabolism, Testosterone
Were you an avid exerciser prior to becoming diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS)? Are you sure you were diagnosed correctly? Symptomatically, overtraining syndrome (OTS) and ME/CFS appear almost identical. Symptoms like fatigue, pain, post-exertional... 
by Cort Johnson | Sep 21, 2019 | Homepage, Recovery stories
The first five parts of Kyle McNease’s ME/CFS story (The Suffering of One is the Suffering of All) related his journey from an athletic Oxford student to a biological basket case. When we left him, Kyle was near the end of his rope: emaciated, wracked by... 
by Cort Johnson | Sep 19, 2019 | Advocacy, Fibromyalgia and Pain, Homepage
The similarities are striking: the symptoms, the shoddy research funding, the poor treatment from doctors, the gender imbalance and the stigma both still face. Both diseases still really exist on the fringes of medicine and medical research. Yet one disease is moving... 
by Cort Johnson | Sep 16, 2019 | Brain, Homepage, Neuroinflammation
“The Holy Grail in this field has been to discover how to turn off neuroinflammation in microglia.” Tanzi It’s been a bitter couple of years for big pharma and the Alzheimer’s community. Just today, Eisai and Biogen announced they were abandoning...
