by Cort Johnson | Sep 16, 2025 | Autonomic Nervous System, COVID-19, Fibromyalgia and Pain, Homepage, Immune, Inflammation, Natelson, Research, Treatment, vagus nerve, Vagus nerve stimulation
Vagus nerve stimulation could reduce inflammation, pain and stress in ME/CFS, fibromyalgia and long COVID. A long COVID trial is underway.
by Cort Johnson | Aug 17, 2025 | Autonomic Nervous System, Basal Ganglia, Brain, DeCodeME, Energy Production, Gene expression, Genetics, Homepage, Inflammation, Metabolism, Motor Cortex, Neuroinflammation, Neuroinflammation, Neuroplasticity, Prefrontal Cortex
The DecodeME study puts ME/CFS on a firm biological foundation by highlighting genes that play a prominent role in the brain, the immune system and metabolism.
by Cort Johnson | Jun 5, 2025 | Autonomic Nervous System, Autophagy, Cardiovascular, Energy Production, Exercise, Homepage, Muscles, Research
Long COVID and chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) finds that deconditioning does not cause the muscle issues in these diseases and raises other questions.
by Cort Johnson | Apr 13, 2025 | Autonomic Nervous System, Exercise, Homepage, Sleep
Geoff’s Narrations The GIST The Blog A trip to Seattle to see Dr. Ruhoy held up the blogs a bit but they’re back! Exercise physiologist Rob Wust’s “Wearable heart rate variability monitoring identifies autonomic dysfunction and...
by Cort Johnson | Jan 23, 2025 | Autonomic Nervous System, Brain, Breathing, Cardiovascular, Cerebral Spinal Fluid, Clotting, Cognition, Cognition, Energy Production, Gut, Homepage, Immune, long COVID, Metabolism, Microbiome, Muscles, Neuroinflammation, Neuroinflammation, Oxidative Stress, POTS, Research
Long COVID increases the prevalence of ME/CFS in the US fifteenfold plus a deep dive into RECOVER's testing program suggests it might help a lot.
by Cort Johnson | Jan 15, 2025 | Autonomic Nervous System, Drugs, Epigenetics, Genetics, Homepage, Immune, Monocytes, Research, T-cells
Evidence indicating that the T-cells in ME/CFS are exhausted could lead to new treatment options.