The muscles. Is there any tissue more likely to be affected in such an exertionally challenged disease? We just saw NIH researchers undercover a possible mitochondrial abnormality in the muscles of people with chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). With rather impeccable...
The great question for chronic fatigue syndrome and long COVID is: what causes post-exertional malaise (PEM)? The latest study to come out of Nancy Klimas’s Institute for Neuroimmune Medicine – led by Lubov Nathanson (senior author) and directed by Derek...
“MAJOR ARTICLE” It was good to see a study from a major medical university exploring exercise capacity in long COVID and appearing in a prominent medical journal. The Journal of Infectious Diseases gave it the headline “MAJOR ARTICLE”. It came...
Three studies on post-exertional malaise in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and one on ME/CFS and long COVID have recently popped up. In this blog, we cover them all. The Distinctive Symptom – PEM (Not Fatigue) That “fatigue” in “chronic...
We’ve all heard about the gut-brain axis. That’s where problems in the gut can translate to inflammation in the brain and vice versa but a gut-muscle connection? That’s entirely new. One wonders much further can the gut after all reach? It turns out...
Growing Pains The NIH’s RECOVER Initiative has not exactly been garnering a lot of praise. On the plus side, the NIH has clearly given the project a lot of thought and put together a program designed to produce meaningful results; i.e. results that stick. No...
