Is the RECOVER Initiative listening to 30 years of experience? Time will tell. The RECOVER Initiative is not just a big deal for long COVID; it’s potentially a very big deal for chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome,...
Three years after the pandemic had destroyed any attempt to get back to the East Coast and Washington, DC, I was back in Avindra Nath’s office at the NIH’s huge Clinical Center. The world’s largest hospital that’s devoted entirely to clinical...
The big news in David Systrom’s “Neurovascular Dysregulation Underlies Exercise Intolerance in ME/CFS” talk at the CDC yesterday was that the $8 million mitochondrial drug trial had, unfortunately, failed. The ME/CFS Mitochondrial Drug Trial Fails...
This blog asks if it’s possible to reduce the PEM period by doing things other than resting. It’s a long blog – you may want to print it out using the print button on the bottom left of the blog. About 5 years ago, Health Rising did a post on...
The 4th in a series of blogs on the 2022 IACFS/ME International Conference finds two new metabolomic studies that highlighted three problems that have cropped up recently in other studies: fatty acid metabolism, cell membrane damage, and energy production. The first...
Keynote Talk: David Systrom – Pathophysiology of exercise intolerance in ME/CFS & Long COVID (Text in parentheses was not part of the talk and was added by me). David Systrom started off his long and stimulating keynote talk, “Keynote: Pathophysiology...