Enhancing Butyrate and Gut Health in ME/CFS, Fibromyalgia, Long COVID and Allied Disorders
Several studies suggest that butyrate-producing bacteria are reduced in people with chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and possibly fibromyalgia (FM) and long COVID. The fact that three different techniques have found reduced levels of butyrate-producing bacteria in...
Something Akin to Heart Failure May Be Occurring in the Muscles of Long-COVID Patients (and People with ME/CFS)
It didn’t take David Systrom long to take on long COVID. Systrom – the Harvard pulmonologist whose invasive exercise tests are redefining how we think about chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) – didn’t lead this study but helped design, analyze...
The 2021 Ramsay Awards: Leaky Brains, Healing the Gut-Brain Axis / Pathological Antibodies / Breathing Better? And More
The 2021 Ramsay Awards from the Solve ME Initiate feature studies seeking to understand the gut-brain connection, determine if the blood-brain barrier is impaired or if pathological autoantibodies are attacking tissues, and others.
Major Study Links Gut Bacteria to Fatigue in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)
Led by Cheng Guo (lead author) and Brent L. Williams (senior author) this big NIH-funded study from Ian Lipkin’s Columbia team at the “Center for Solutions for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CfS for ME/CFS)” set out to fix some...
AXA1125 – A New Mitochondrial Enhancer Is Being Trialed in Long COVID
I have a feeling that interesting treatment trials for long COVID may become a regular blog topic on Health Rising. That would be a nice change. Treatment trials have been chronic fatigue syndrome’s Achilles heel. Except for cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)...StudyME
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