East African Disease Informs Nath’s Search for the Cause of ME/CFS
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...
The Brainstem, Vagus Nerve, Neuroinflammation and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: The VanElzakker Way
Jeff’s amazing craniocervical instability story indicated that a damaged brainstem can produce all the symptoms of ME/CFS/FM/POTS. He’s not the first to believe that. Michael VanElzakker, the author of the Vagus Nerve Hypothesis, has believed that for...
Could the Gut Cure Neuroinflammation? An M.S. and ME/CFS/FM Inquiry
Multiple sclerosis is a brain disease, right? Wrong. A recent study suggested that M.S. is actually a gut-brain disease and that drug makers trying to cure M.S. may be barking up the wrong tree. They should be looking to the gut – not the brain. It’s not...
The Hibernation Diseases? Mitochondrial Finding Suggests Fibromyalgia May Be Hibernation Disease as Well
Nothing happens in your body without some of your genes going off like skyrockets. If your body is responding to something – or acting differently in some way – it should show up in a different pattern of gene expression. If you get a virus, for instance,...
Filling “The Landscape of Unmet Needs” in ME/CFS and FM: The Bateman Horne Center Pt 1
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....StudyME
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