Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) Article Rocks Top Medical Journal
Tony Komaroff's wildly popular chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) unifying model paper published in JAMA - the top medical journal in the world - suggests ME/CFS is hypometabolic state brought on by neuroinflammation or is a hibernation-like state.
Gut Pain Connection Emerges in Fibromyalgia
Few studies ten years ago considered the gut and its flora in the context of chronic disease. Now microbiome studies are popping up in just about every disease. The “gut-brain” axis is a real thing. The bacteria in the gut appear to be able to affect brain...
The Suffering of One of Us is the Suffering of All: Part III – “Didn’t Life Know I Had Plans?”
In Part III of Kyle McNease’s narrative of going from abundant health to a severe case of ME/CFS, and then back to relative health, a loss hits Kyle hard, he ponders the fact that life didn’t realize he had other plans, and he comes to a surprising realization...
The Suffering of One is the Suffering of All: Pt II – Eros Lost, Absurdity and A Love Song
In Part II of Kyle McNease’s narrative of going from abundant health to a severe case of ME/CFS, and then back to relative health, Kyle experiences abandonment, takes a surrealistic a trip to a psychiatrist, and reflects on the scars his illness has left on his...
Epstein-Barr Virus May Be Turning On Pathogenic Genes in ME/CFS
If there was ever a “prodigal virus” in ME/CFS, it would be the Epstein-barr virus (EBV). Since the first EBV ME/CFS study in 1984, dozens of studies have examined the role the virus may play in this diseases, and tens of thousands have studied its...StudyME
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