The Psychosocial Disease? – Has Fibromyalgia Been Captured by a Behavioral Paradigm?
The very nature of fibromyalgia, like chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), has left it prone to psychological interpretations. No injury or lesion has ever been found. No accepted blood test points to a biological problem. The disease produces lots of symptoms – a sure...
“A Nation in Pain: Healing Our Biggest Health Problem” – A Review
Chronic pain costs more than heart disease, cancer and diabetes combined yet gets a fraction of their funding. Judy Foreman knows well the cost of our medical systems dysfunctional approach to pain. A medical journalist used to good medical care, she was dismayed by...
Optic Nerve Thinning Suggests Fibromyalgia is “Neurodegenerative” Disease
“The RNFL is an ideal structure (no other central nervous system tract has this unique arrangement) for visualizing the processes of neurodegeneration, neuroprotection and, potentially, even neuro-repair. The authors We know that fibromyalgia is a central...
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...Lives Interrupted Latest Story
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