The failure of the BACE drugs has some drug companies looking for ways to reduce neuroinflammation - which appears to be present in chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia
It’s only been a month – but what a month it has been for Liz. Liz hasn’t had the easiest time of it health-wise. A longtime migraineur and fibromyalgia patient, Liz has had to endure a bucketload of mostly immune health problems that have probably stemmed from a...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH), with its pitiful funding, has been a thorn in the ME/CFS community’s side for decades. For decades advocates have thrown everything they could – heartbreaking stories, demonstrations, insults – at the NIH in...
Dominic asks whether the complex neuroendocrine issues found in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), fibromyalgia and prolonged critical illness require a more complex treatment approach including using thyroid, hydrocortisone, testosterone, etc. together to return the system to normal.
Summary Prolonged or chronic critical illness – a term applied to patients that survive severe injury or infection, but fail to start recovering after a few days – is characterized by low levels of peripheral hormones (including T3, IGF-1, cortisol and testosterone)....
Beginnings In 2016, Vicky Whittemore asserted before NANDSC (the National Advisory Council for the Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)) that a desperate need existed to bolster research for chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). (NANDSC Council is the...
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