The Pain Gender Gap: Women and Men Really Are From Different Planets When It Comes to Pain
Despite the fact that some have postulated men and women come from different planets, the medical profession has long assumed that when it comes to biology men make a fine stand-in for women. That attitude has been steadily changing and a brilliant Canadian study...
Powerful Models Accurately Predict Response to Exercise and Treatments in ME/CFS
How close are we to understanding chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) when we can accurately predict how the greatest stressor of all – exercise – affects ME/CFS patients’ physiology? Nothing, after all, whacks a person with ME/CFS like exercise....
Neuroendocrine Dysfunctions in Prolonged Critical Illness: Relevance for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia Pt. I
Summary Prolonged or chronic critical illness – a term applied to patients that survive severe injury or infection, but fail to start recovering after a few days – is characterized by low levels of peripheral hormones (including T3, IGF-1, cortisol and testosterone)....
Sex (Hormones) and Fibromyalgia: The Pain Connection
Hormones? Certainly the nervous system plays a major role in producing pain. The immune system with its inflammatory processes and ability to create sickness behavior is certainly in the discussion, but hormones? Many women are well aware that hormonal fluctuations...
The Fatigue and Pain Producers: Could Glial Cells Be ‘It’ in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia?
It became evident that glial activation was not merely just correlated with pain, but that it was critically involved in inducing pathological pain. Suddenly glial cells are turning up in spades in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia. The Japanese...Lives Interrupted Latest Story
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