by Cort Johnson | Dec 24, 2018 | Diagnosis, Genetics, Homepage, Immune
This is the first of a couple of blogs that will celebrate visionaries within the ME/CFS/FM communities who took action to make their visions real. Dr. Bateman was doing yeoman’s work serving the ME/CFS/FM community in her medical practice in Salt Lake City, Utah.... 
by Cort Johnson | Dec 20, 2018 | Fibromyalgia and Pain, Inflammation, Metabolism, Muscles, Neuroinflammation
A Molecular Revolution We are in the midst of a molecular revolution. Instead of plucking out individual factors and studying them, researchers are ploughing through immense amounts of data to try and get at the molecular roots of illness. They’re using genetic,... 
by Cort Johnson | Dec 12, 2018 | Allodynia, Autoimmune, Brain, Gut, Herpes Simplex Virus, Homepage, Ivabradine, IVIG, Migraine, Prefrontal Cortex
It’s always hard to lose a loved one, but the deaths in ME/CFS seem particularly hard. They tend to be quite painful, they often take place in the midst of a non-supportive medical system, and they’re a complete mystery. With no seeming way out it’s... 
by Cort Johnson | Nov 29, 2018 | Immune, Inflammation, Metabolism
Energy production problems seem to show up everywhere one looks in ME/CFS and the immune system is turning out to be no exception. A recent B-cell study suggests that problems producing energy could be leaving ME/CFS patient’s B-cells in a naive state... 
by Cort Johnson | Nov 23, 2018 | Epigenetics, Genetics, Immune, Oxidative Stress
DNA that doesn’t get translated into proteins used to be called “junk DNA” but it turns out that much of it isn’t junk at all. Much of what was formerly turned junk DNA is actually actively modifying how our genes are being expressed and our... 
by Cort Johnson | Nov 3, 2018 | Autoimmune, Drugs, Energy Production, Genetics, Homepage, Inflammation, Mast cell activation syndrome
The Solve ME/CFS Initiative’s Ramsay Awards are small grants (@$50K – only in the medical field is 50K small) but potentially mighty grants. They are designed to give researchers the funding to produce pilot data needed to get really big grants – the...
