The building is dark – the doors are locked – everything has been shut down. It’s early 2020 and the coronavirus pandemic has struck. A figure walks down the street, pauses – briefly peers into the entrance – and moves on. He turns left...
These metabolic pathways can really be something. Pathways by their nature can be kind of all-encompassing. We could think of the bigger ones like major rivers that send out tributaries that affect multiple systems. Tryptophan and the kynurenine pathways are one of...
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy seems like an obvious choice for energy-depleted people with ME/CFS, long COVID, and fibromyalgia… But can it deliver the goods? It seems so obvious. How could delivering massive amounts of oxygen to energy-depleted, oxygen-deprived...
Bhupesh Prusty’s goal seems to be to upend what we know about the herpesviruses, in particular, human herpesvirus-6 (HHV-6), and their relationship to chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). His Twitter handle calls him “a passionate molecular virologist who...
“Brain-fog”: it’s another descriptive birthed by the chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) community that’s been seamlessly by adopted the long-COVID community (you’re welcome!). The Mayo Clinic – which historically has been no friend...
What a timely meeting. Mass ME/CFS and FM was celebrating its 40th anniversary, and so probably was Tony Komaroff MD and his long history of treating, researching, and advocating for chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) – we are facing the most exciting and...
