The second part of a 3-part series of blogs on the “Deep phenotyping of post-infectious myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome” study looks at who was in the study and how they were selected, how severely the study was truncated by the pandemic (quite...
The Metabolism webinar is part of the ME/CFS Research Roadmap effort. The effort was put together by Dr. Koroshetz and Vicky Whittemore as a way to advance chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) research at the NIH. The Roadmap effort was conceived pre-COVID, then was...
One of the dangers facing the long-COVID research field was an over-emphasis on immune functioning and an under-emphasis on metabolism and energy production. While exercise studies showed up pretty early in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), it took the field a while...
Janet Dafoe has been doing an informative series of videos on the Open Medicine Foundation’s work. Her patient-centered approach – she often interrupts a researcher engaging in “research speak” to clarify in simple English what’s going on...
Health Rising covered this fascinating gut/immune/metabolic study in an earlier blog. Now Bronc is back with an interview with Dr. Armin Alaedini – the senior author of this study. Note that we just covered a study suggesting that the gut could play a major role...
So many possibilities…Is it the mitochondria? Or the blood vessels? Or the liver? Or plasmalogens? Or viral reactivation? How about viral-induced inflammation? Brainstem dysfunction… It’s both exciting and overwhelming to see so many possibilities show up for...