by Cort Johnson | Sep 4, 2018 | Autoimmune, Energy Production, Gut, Oxidative Stress
A recent European paper proposes that chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) starts with your genes and your leaky gut but not the leaky gut you necessarily associate with the disease; the leaky gut you had before, perhaps long before, you got sick.. The authors also... 
by Cort Johnson | Aug 1, 2018 | Gut, Research
For the first time ever in ME/CFS Ian Lipkin merged a gut microbiome and a metabolomics study together and came up with some surprising results. For one the differences in the gut microbiome were more profound than in the metabolome. For another the study suggested... 
by Cort Johnson | Apr 29, 2017 | Gut, Research
Using cutting-edge technologies new to ME/CFS, Ian Lipkin and Mady Hornig took the deepest dive yet into the gut flora of ME/CFS patients and uncovered another potential subset – their third in a row. Find out more in a Simmaron Research Foundation sponsored... 
by Simon McGrath | Mar 6, 2016 | Autonomic Nervous System, Brain, Exercise, Gut, Homepage, Immune, NIH, Research
Thanks to Simon and MEAction for allowing Health Rising to post Simon’s exposition of the truly remarkable chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) study about to take place at the NIH. This blog first appeared on MEAction. Most images and captions were added by me... 
by Cort Johnson | Dec 21, 2015 | Gut, Homepage, Research
It seems every week brings more news highlighting the surprising importance the gut has on our health. A couple of years ago the Solve ME/CFS Initiative funded a pilot study on the effects of exercise on chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) patients gut flora. It was one... 
by Cort Johnson | Dec 7, 2015 | Gut, Gut Infection, Homepage, Pathogens
Acute infections represent frequent and violent tissue perturbations from which the immune system must rapidly rebound. Fonseca et. al. Researchers have long believed that infections can kick off inflammatory diseases, but the link between an infection and a long term...
