by Cort Johnson | Nov 26, 2019 | Cytokines, Immune
Cytokines have been like a mirage in the desert for ME/CFS. These powerful immune factors seem like they must play a major role in this disease, but as soon as researchers have closed in on them, they’ve always seemed to slip away. A recent major review from the... 
by Cort Johnson | Nov 23, 2019 | Cytokines, Gene expression, Homepage, Immune, Klimas
A recent Klimas/Broderick study had a lot of interesting things in it: the gender divide, and the illumination of possibly key immune and metabolic factors, but the most intriguing thing about the study was its potential precision. The study possibly identified... 
by Cort Johnson | Nov 6, 2019 | Cardiovascular, Homepage, Inflammation
It’s the simplest of medical tests. The erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR or SED rate) test simply measures the rate at which the red blood cells in whole blood descend in a test tube over a period of one hour. This non-specific measure of inflammation works... 
by Cort Johnson | Oct 14, 2019 | Autonomic Nervous System, Brain, Brainstem, Fibromyalgia and Pain, Gulf War Illness, Inflammation, Ion Channels, Mast cell activation syndrome
When you have a systemic disease, any part of your body can provide a clue – even your nose. Over 15 years from 1998 to 2012, James Baraniuk, a longtime ME/CFS and GWI researcher at Georgetown University, became the first and thus far the last person to try and... 
by Cort Johnson | Sep 1, 2019 | Cytokines, Gulf War Illness, Herbal, Herbs and Botanicals, Homepage, Immune, Klimas, Mifepristone, Neuroinflammation, NIH
I listened miserably to the sounds of silence broken by my occasional exclamations: “really?”, “no kidding”, “fascinating!”. During my two long sessions with Dr. Klimas, the recorder app on my phone had decided to record only my... 
by Dominic Stanculescu | Jul 24, 2019 | Cytokines, Homepage, Oxidative Stress, Thyroid, Thyroid
This is the third of a series of posts on non-thyroidal illness syndrome, NTIS – a pattern of altered thyroid hormone activity often present in severe trauma and critical illness. A recent study suggests NTIS may be present in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS)...
