by Cort Johnson | May 26, 2019 | Cytomegalovirus, Gut, Homepage, Natural Killer Cells, T-cells
In decades of immune research, nobody has ever called attention to the specialized T-cells called MAIT cells in ME/CFS. Recently, though, two research efforts, working independently, have highlighted these unique cells – which form a bridge between the gut and... 
by Cort Johnson | May 7, 2019 | Energy Production, Homepage, Immune
It’s not pretty! The print is abysmally small, the margins are tiny, long stretches of text are common (it abhors paragraphs), the images are jammed together, and the formatting is designed to make you work and is decades out of date, but the fact is that when... 
by Amber Ella | Apr 26, 2019 | Cannabis, Cytokines, Homepage, Mast cell activation syndrome, Treatment
This is Part I of a three-part series on using marijuana or cannabis as medicine for chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and/or fibromaylgia (FM). The first two parts by Amber focus on the science behind using Cannabis and how to get started on it. The last part by Cort... 
by Cort Johnson | Apr 15, 2019 | Antivirals, Bateman, Energy Production, Gut, Heavy Metals, Homepage, Human Herpes Virus Six (HHV-6), Metabolism, Microbiome, Orthostatic intolerance, Oxidative Stress, Peterson, T-cells
Day two of the Conference – not all of which is covered here, started off with a physicians’ panel, then NIH Director Francis Collins showed up (covered later) just before the Intramural study presented some results, then it was onto Ian Lipkin, Dr. Oh,... 
by Cort Johnson | Apr 10, 2019 | Energy Production, Exercise, Homepage, Immune, Inflammation, Neuroinflammation
A Critical Look at the NIH’s Accelerating Research Conference This chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) conference was different. Besides the normal goal of bringing researchers together to share their latest results, it had an ulterior motive – getting NIH... 
by Cort Johnson | Apr 2, 2019 | Autoimmune, Pathogens
The fact that ME/CFS is a mystery doesn’t daunt the leader of the NIH’s big intramural study on ME/CFS at all. Just a couple of years ago Avindra Nath and his compatriots cracked a mysterious neurodegenerative disease in East Africa that researchers had...
