Twenty billion dollars a year… That’s how much Americans in chronic pain spend on prescription pain-killers every year. Most of these are opioid drugs, but the increasing regulatory burden foisted on them and the growing realization of how ineffective and...
A Young Doctor Fights to Cure His Own Rare, Deadly Disease His Doctors Were Stumped. Then He Took Over. The “Beast” was just twenty-five years old. A physical specimen, David Fajgenbaum went from gym rat to invalid incredibly quickly. First his lymph nodes...
Dr. Barnden of the National Centre for NeuroImmnology and Emerging Diseases (NCNED) in Griffith University, Australia has been doing some fascinating brain imaging work in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). Over the past six years Barnden has been publishing results...
I came across a powerful practice the other day that I wanted to share. Used by coaches associated with Landmark Education it involves a subtle but powerful shift in how we approach major goals like getting healthy. First they have their clients envision their big...
Thanks once again to Darden for allowing Health Rising to republish an article (originally titled “Lifestyle Recommendations for Optimal Health” from her Fibrofriends blog As a person whose health has been compromised by chronic illness for many years I...
Talk about the art of communication. There’s a reason Jen Brea’s TED talk on ME/CFS has received over 220,000 views in just four days; it’s just really, really good. Check out a talk that’s spreading the word on ME/CFS with lightning speed and...
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