by Cort Johnson | May 25, 2024 | Autonomic Nervous System, Brain, Brainstem, Homepage, Immune, Inflammation, Research, vagus nerve, Vagus nerve stimulation
Check out Geoff’s narration: The GIST The Blog THE GIST Check out Geoff’s narration of the GIST at the top of the blog. Major Takeaway – researchers find a circuit in the brain that turns on and off the inflammatory response that characterizes...
by Cort Johnson | Feb 27, 2024 | Autonomic Nervous System, Brain, Cerebral Spinal Fluid, Cognition, Dopamine, Energy Production, Exercise, Homepage, Immune, Lipids, Metabolism, Motor Cortex, Muscles, Natural Killer Cells, Oxidative Stress, Research, Sleep, Small Fiber Neuropathy, T-cells, Tryptophan
The NIH's in house study of chronic fatigue syndrome aka ME/CFS illuminated key factors in the disease that can be followed up on.
by Cort Johnson | Feb 22, 2024 | Autonomic Nervous System, Brain, Exercise, Homepage, Motor Cortex, Muscles, Orthostatic intolerance, Research, Small Fiber Neuropathy
A major NIH funding chronic fatigue syndrome aka ME/CFS study concludes that ME/CFS is not psychological but is a brain disease.
by Cort Johnson | Jan 12, 2024 | Autonomic Nervous System, Exercise, Homepage, Physical Therapy, Putrino, Treatment
Our last blog covered a study showing that intense exercise messes with the mitochondria, inhibits energy production, and can even produce muscle damage in some people with long COVID. Is all exercise necessarily bad, though? ME/CFS experts, and now David Putrino in...
by Cort Johnson | Dec 7, 2023 | Autonomic Nervous System, Dopamine, Homepage, Immune, Inflammation, ME/CFS, vagus nerve
The nicotine patch is a surprising entrant in the long COVID, ME/CFS, fibromyalgia treatment field. Find out why...
by Cort Johnson | Nov 5, 2023 | Autonomic Nervous System, Homepage, HPA axis, Limbic System, Mind/body, Mindfulness, Neuroinflammation, Neuroplasticity, Neuroplasticity, Prefrontal Cortex, Recovery stories
In Pt. II of our 4-part interview on how people with chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and fibromyalgia (FM) recover, we cover the following topics. I ask what did CFS Unravelled bring that was new – a single explanation 0:00:22 Dan challenges the model of...