Straight Talk From Carol Head As She Steps Down From Solve ME
ME/CFS Rears Its Head Again A commitment to social justice runs in Carol Head’s blood. She founded a non-profit which has given away millions to support entrepreneurs who work on global poverty, and was a founding board member of another non-profit that tells the...
The Relevance of Research on Critical Illnesses for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome ME/CFS: A vicious cycle between cytokines, oxidative stress and thyroid hormones
This is the third of a series of posts on non-thyroidal illness syndrome, NTIS – a pattern of altered thyroid hormone activity often present in severe trauma and critical illness. A recent study suggests NTIS may be present in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS)...
The Suffering of One is the Suffering of All: Pt V – Remorseful Survivor: Kyle Finds An Answer
Talk about survivor’s remorse. To this day, I still can’t come to terms with a world in which Jarret and Dan are cut down in their prime, while I continue on. That will never make sense to me. Not now. Not ever. It’s not worth concealing either. I feel guilt that I’m...
The Silver Lining To The Montoya Situation
Update In June, longtime Stanford professor and Director of the Stanford Chronic Fatigue Initiative, Dr. Jose Montoya was terminated from Stanford University for “multiple violations of University policy” which, according to women from his ME/CFS clinic...
Emerging Insights #II: “The Cellular Equivalent of Chronic Fatigue” Found in ME/CFS
At the Emerge Conference Paul Fisher provides evidence of mitochondrial dysfunction in chronic fatigue syndrome aka ME/CFS. Complex V problems cause the mitochondria to poop out under stress - resulting in widespread attempts across the other complexes to compensate - and potentially explainiing the post-exertional malaise or PEM in ME/CFSStudyME
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