Laggard: Is an Under-Active Brain the Problem in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)
A Very Exciting Presentation Two years ago, Marcie and Mark Zinn produced what I thought were the two most exciting presentations of a very exciting Stanford Symposium. They had used a technology called qLoretta to analyze EEG findings in a way that hadn’t...
The Fatigue and Pain Hormone? Leptin Shows Up Again – in Fibromyalgia
Nobody in the chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) community had taken leptin – a hormone produced by fat cells – seriously, until Jarred Younger’s Stanford Good Day Bad Day study suggested that it might be the factor driving fatigue n ME/CFS. Younger...
Fibromyalgia Study Points to Inflammation, Damage and Low Energy Production in Muscles
Fibromyalgia/ME/CFS sure feels like it’s in the muscles. After exercise, at least for me, they’ll often feel constricted and painful and muscle stiffness is common. The central “sensitizationists: (look -a new word :)) say those pain sensations are ...
Genes Highlight Inflammation and Mast Cells in Fibromyalgia
Lamenting the lack of a diagnostic biomarker for FM, U.S. researchers turned to measuring the expression of the genes in FM patients blood. Their findings suggested FM was a neuro-immune disease with a twist. Check out what they found in Genes Highlight Inflammation...
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...Lives Interrupted Latest Story
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