Voracious Brains, Inflamed Muscles and Immune Invaders? The NIH ME/CFS and Long COVID Conference Pt. II
THE GIST High blood oxygen levels entering the brain and low blood oxygen levels leaving the brain suggest the brains of ME/CFS patients are sucking up all the energy (oxygen) they can to keep going. Why this is happening isn’t clear. It could be due to low...
The Nath Intramural ME/CFS Study Pt. II: Missed Opportunities, Misreadings and… Success (?)
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 Nanoneedle for ME/CFS is Back!
“We posit that this assay can potentially offer an outstanding biomarker to rapidly and inexpensively diagnose ME/CFS with high accuracy. In addition, this assay may offer a remarkable opportunity for the discovery of new treatments for this debilitating...
A Methylene Blue Boost? Could a Blue Dye Help with ME/CFS, Long COVID and Fibromyalgia?
There’s a reason that methylene blue (MB) has a kind of space-age, industrial-type sound to it – its first use was as an industrial chemical. Check out the recent citations on the compound and you’ll find more discussions of nanowires, dye removal,...
The Itaconate Shunt Hypothesis – Could it Explain the Energy Problems and PEM in ME/CFS?
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...StudyME
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