If any treatment has promise, vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) does. Through its stimulation of the rest/digest system (the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS)), VNS has the potential to tamp down the fight/flight system that seems to be raging in chronic fatigue...
Three years after the pandemic had destroyed any attempt to get back to the East Coast and Washington, DC, I was back in Avindra Nath’s office at the NIH’s huge Clinical Center. The world’s largest hospital that’s devoted entirely to clinical...
The big news in David Systrom’s “Neurovascular Dysregulation Underlies Exercise Intolerance in ME/CFS” talk at the CDC yesterday was that the $8 million mitochondrial drug trial had, unfortunately, failed. The ME/CFS Mitochondrial Drug Trial Fails...
A rough winter awaits. Did we relax our vigilance too soon? Eric Topol started off his latest article, “The new COVID wave”, stating “Things are once again going in the wrong direction in the United States.” (What else is new?) Walk into a...
This University of Colorado/ National Jewish Health Center study, “Signatures of Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Impaired Fatty Acid Metabolism in Plasma of Patients with Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC)”, follows on the heels of another study...
From the beginning, the RECOVER Initiative has focused on building out the massive infrastructure needed to follow and study approximately 18,000 participants. Hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent creating the main thrust of the Initiative. About a year...
