We know the gut is in play in some way in ME/CFS. Gut symptoms are common and studies have evidence of dysregulated gut flora and leaky gut (gut bacteria in the blood). The big question, though, is what it all means. We know that gut issues have the potential to...
All eight of Health Rising’s recent recovery stories have featured different approaches thus far and so it goes with Amber’s story. Everything is different with Amber – she is different – and her pathway to wellness is different. Amber’s...
This has been an Institute of Neuroimmune Medicine and Bateman Horne Center month. We started off with a review of the Institute’s recent Conference, then used Dr. Yellman’s (Bateman Horne Center) overview of mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS), then dug...
The great question for chronic fatigue syndrome and long COVID is: what causes post-exertional malaise (PEM)? The latest study to come out of Nancy Klimas’s Institute for Neuroimmune Medicine – led by Lubov Nathanson (senior author) and directed by Derek...
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...