by Cort Johnson | Jul 18, 2021 | Autonomic Nervous System, Cytokines, Exercise, Homepage, Immune
People with chronic fatigue syndrome or rheumatoid arthritis both experience exercise intolerance. A recent study suggests that both similar and different processes are at work in both.
by Cort Johnson | Mar 25, 2021 | Autonomic Nervous System, Homepage, Research
An impaired baroreflex response could be contributing to the pain, fatigue, sleep and cognitive issues in fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS)
by Cort Johnson | Nov 16, 2020 | Autonomic Nervous System, Cardiovascular, CBT-GET, Homepage
A graded exercise therapy or GET chronic fatigue syndrome study found that a substantial number of ME/CFS patients may have cardiovascular problems that interfer with blood flows to the muscles.
by Cort Johnson | Oct 31, 2020 | Autoimmune, Autonomic Nervous System, Homepage, long COVID
COVID-19 creates an ME/CFS-like condition characterized by autoimmune autonomic nervous system problems that are partially resolved by IVIG in a long hauler
by Cort Johnson | Oct 29, 2020 | Autoimmune, Autonomic Nervous System, Homepage, POTS
Autoimmune autonomic ganglionopathy is a very rare disease. So why feature it in a blog on chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), fibromyalgia (FM), and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS)? Because it could provide a preview of the future. All these diseases...
by Cort Johnson | Oct 20, 2020 | Autonomic Nervous System, Homepage
“No prescriptions, no medicines, no injections. That’s the future. That’s what gets me out of bed in the morning.” Kevin Tracey, MD. Dysautonomia International really scored when they got Kevin Tracey MD to be the keynote speaker at their 2020 Virtual Conference....