The first blog in a couple of weeks is different – it’s not on ME/CFS/FM or long COVID per se – and that may be a good note to start out on. It’s a reminder that ME/CFS is not alone – that it shares broad themes with other diseases – some...
Although fatigue has traditionally been scorned in medical research. studies show that ME/CFS – the “chronic fatigue syndrome” – is significantly more functionally disabling than multiple sclerosis, heart failure, diabetes, depression, and...
“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...
It’s complex; it causes fatigue, pain, sleep and cognitive problems; it’s underfunded; and it’s not chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) or fibromyalgia (FM) – it’s Gulf War IIlness (GWI) – and it may be more relevant than you think....
Jeff’s amazing craniocervical instability story indicated that a damaged brainstem can produce all the symptoms of ME/CFS/FM/POTS. He’s not the first to believe that. Michael VanElzakker, the author of the Vagus Nerve Hypothesis, has believed that for...
Neuroinflammation, Fatigue and Pain Lab Stop We were having a case of déjà vu as we drove around the surprisingly large campus. Getting into the NIH to see Avindra Nath had been a nightmare. It turned out that the NIH would only allow the big van through one access...
