Fatigue – the Japanese Way: A Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Perspective
The Japanese have long been engaged in a quest to understand severe fatigue. Severe fatigue is an issue the Japanese apparently take fairly seriously. In fact, Watanabe and Tanaka begin their overview of the causes of severe, chronic fatigue by referring to exhaustion...
Information Overload? Are Fibromyalgia Patient’s Brains Trying to Do Too Much?
The present observations, therefore, indicate the patients’ inability to recruit inhibitory and self defensive circuits against sensory repetition. The authors Is thinking harder than it used to be? Do even little mental tasks seem effortful at times? It might not be...
Brain on Fire? Younger’s Neuroinflammation Series
Jarred Younger’s recent series of short videos explains what neuroinflammation is, why he chose his unusual approach to it, why he believes the current treatment approach for FM is all wrong and lastly a unique GWS treatment trial that he hopes to apply to FM...
Migraine, ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia – Low Oxygen, High Lactate Disorders?
Migraine effects 12% of the population (!) or about 40 million people. Two studies suggest as many as 75% of people with chronic fatigue syndrome experience migraines and that most migraines in ME/CFS are undiagnosed. A recent large fibromyalgia study suggested...
Microstructural Havoc: The Immune System, Fatigue and the Brain – An ME/CFS and FM Scenario
We know that hepatitis C patients receiving a strong pro-inflammatory drug (IFN-a) that helps them fight off their viral infections and ME/CFS patients have very similar problems with fatigue and identical problems with their basal ganglia. That suggests that...StudyME
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