Jarred Younger – the creator of the Neuroinflammation, Pain and Fatigue Laboratory – is committed. He knows neuroinflammation plays a role in fibromyalgia (FM) and chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and his lab is dedicated to showing that. So far –...
(Jeff Wood’s remarkable recovery following spinal surgery to correct craniocervical instability (CCI) and tethered cord shocked the ME/CFS community. It’s safe to say that almost no one saw that coming. In this piece Jeff – the former ME/CFS patient who started all...
Right on the heels of a study showing that people with fibromyalgia have trouble focusing or paying attention comes another study linking cognitive problems to a balky stress response. Say What? Attention Deficits Highlight Why Fibromyalgia (and ME/CFS) Are Such...
How fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome and allied diseases are so different from diseases like rheumatoid arthritis Fibro-fog, brain-fog, chemo-fog… It can get pretty dim out there if you have fibromyalgia (FM), chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and environmental...
“The story is always the same. When a pandemic happens, people always focus on the primary organ, but they forget about the brain.” Avindra Nath, MD Most researchers, when they focus on post-infectious illnesses, go straight to the body to figure...
Several commonalities exist between chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and fibromyalgia (FM). Both appear to feature low heart variability, small fiber neuropathy (SFN), neuroinflammation, some similar brain imaging results, evidence of impaired energy production,...