Courtney Craig is something of a rarity. For one, it took her years, and a lot of study and trial and error, but she was able to become, in her words, a very “high-functioning” person with chronic fatigue syndrome/fibromyalgia (ME/CFS/FM). Coming down with...
Health Rising by Cort Johnson Hypothyroidism of the Muscle? A New Thyroid Subset Emerges in ME/CFS Play Episode Pause Episode Mute/Unmute Episode Rewind 10 Seconds 1x Fast Forward 30 seconds 00:00 / 15:47 Something new! Thanks so much to Geoff for doing a voice...
THE GIST High blood oxygen levels entering the brain and low blood oxygen levels leaving the brain suggest the brains of ME/CFS patients are sucking up all the energy (oxygen) they can to keep going. Why this is happening isn’t clear. It could be due to low...
The NIH’s RECOVER Initiative is in a strange place. It’s gone through most of its $1.15 billion nest egg without producing anything of note and its critics abound. It does have its supporters. Steven Deek at UCSF called RECOVER “a great success“, and...
Sleep Series This is the 2nd in a series of (at least) 4 blogs on sleep. Health Rising’s Sleep Series Pt. I – Dr. Bruck Interview – Bronc kicked the series off with an interview of Dr. Bruck – a retired sleep researcher whose son has ME/CFS. Pt. II...
THE GIST Major Takeaway – a new hypothesis emerges suggesting that an overactivated immune system may be stealing resources from the rest of the body. A readily available assay is available to test that hypothesis and provide a way to easily test possible drugs...