Thanks for Tom for allowing Health Rising to post his interesting trial. While some people with ME/CFS (see below) have found short term fasts to be helpful, this is the first time I know of that this approach is being assessed in a trial. Long COVID, once again, is...
Fibromyalgia (FM) is so weird. Exercise studies are just going gangbusters. If researchers devoted as much time and money to attempting to understand what’s going on in FM as they do on exercise studies we might have some real answers. The outcome has been that...
In 1905 a Swiss patent officer named Albert Einstein published four groundbreaking papers – one of which was on special relativity. Eleven years later, he added gravitation to the mix in his general relativity hypothesis. It wasn’t until 1919, though, that...
These metabolic pathways can really be something. Pathways by their nature can be kind of all-encompassing. We could think of the bigger ones like major rivers that send out tributaries that affect multiple systems. Tryptophan and the kynurenine pathways are one of...
Is the RECOVER Initiative listening to 30 years of experience? Time will tell. The RECOVER Initiative is not just a big deal for long COVID; it’s potentially a very big deal for chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome,...
Bhupesh Prusty’s goal seems to be to upend what we know about the herpesviruses, in particular, human herpesvirus-6 (HHV-6), and their relationship to chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). His Twitter handle calls him “a passionate molecular virologist who...
