We’ve all heard about the gut-brain axis. That’s where problems in the gut can translate to inflammation in the brain and vice versa but a gut-muscle connection? That’s entirely new. One wonders much further can the gut after all reach? It turns out...
I think that the microbiome is going to be where the action is [in ME/CFS]. Dr. Ian Lipkin – Leader of the Gut Microbiome Project for ME/CFS. The third part of Health Rising’s recent gut series takes the gut issues in ME/CFS from the complex...
It was remarkable to see two studies and an NIH blog suggesting that a biomarker may have been found for chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) get published on the same day. The effort to promote and link these studies together worked and numerous media outlets have...
The fact that two NIH-funded chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) gut studies were published on the same day wasn’t an accident – an effort was clearly made to highlight their findings. Indeed, they were accompanied by an NIH blog, “Studies find that...
The first blog in a couple of weeks is different – it’s not on ME/CFS/FM or long COVID per se – and that may be a good note to start out on. It’s a reminder that ME/CFS is not alone – that it shares broad themes with other diseases – some...
These metabolic pathways can really be something. Pathways by their nature can be kind of all-encompassing. We could think of the bigger ones like major rivers that send out tributaries that affect multiple systems. Tryptophan and the kynurenine pathways are one of...
