THE GIST Main Takeaway – Increased excitability of a part of the brain that regulates movement, pain, and emotions, and may produce fatigue – the motor cortex – links together fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), and long COVID. In each...
In Pt. II of our 4-part interview on how people with chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and fibromyalgia (FM) recover, we cover the following topics. I ask what did CFS Unravelled bring that was new – a single explanation 0:00:22 Dan challenges the model of...
“Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.” Buddhist saying Something new has become possible with the long-COVID funding. Long sought answers to ME/CFS are not a pipe dream anymore but appear achievable. They will, however, take some time to emerge. Yet...
This is the third in a series of blog covering the IACFS/ME Zoom conference. Oral Rehydration Solution More Effective than Saline IV at Improving Orthostatic Intolerance Pt. I Starving for Energy? and The Immune Hole That Produced ME/CFS?- The IACFS/ME Conference...
Using magnetic fields to treat the brain sounds more than a bit woo-woo. The brain, though, is an electrical organ. Our central nervous system uses tiny bits of electricity – electrons – to send signals whizzing around the brain, and electrons in turn...
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....