Vagus Nerve Stimulation in ME/CFS, FM, POTS and Long COVID – Is its Promise Being Fulfilled?
If any treatment has promise, vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) does. Through its stimulation of the rest/digest system (the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS)), VNS has the potential to tamp down the fight/flight system that seems to be raging in chronic fatigue...
Something in the Blood II: Long-COVID / Fibromyalgia Autoimmune Connection Found
It’s like a sapling putting out roots. Will it grow into a big tree or will it die on the vine? However, it turns out, Andreas Goebel Ph.D. has certainly planted some fascinating and possibly game-changing ideas about how fibromyalgia, ME/CFS, and long COVID...
Ischemia-Reperfusion Hypothesis Opens New Treatment Options for Long COVID, Fibromyalgia and ME/CFS
Ischemia–reperfusion injury, hypoxia–reperfusion injury, or reoxygenation injury – whatever name you wish to call it – occurs when a low oxygen state in the tissues is followed by a resumption of normal oxygen flows. Oddly enough, it’s during the...
Is the Entire Autonomic Nervous System Messed Up in Fibromyalgia?
Fibromyalgia (FM) researchers recently pointed an arrow at a rarely studied part of the brain – the brainstem – and proposed that a “convergence of autonomic regulation and pain modulation systems” had occurred in FM. The Brainstem – Is...The Brainstem – Is it THE Pain Conductor in Fibromyalgia?
The received wisdom about the pain in fibromyalgia (FM) is that it’s being produced in the central nervous system. That idea was amplified very early in “Altered Pain in the Brainstem and Spinal Cord of Fibromyalgia Patients During the Anticipation and...StudyME
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