The muscles. Is there any tissue more likely to be affected in such an exertionally challenged disease? We just saw NIH researchers undercover a possible mitochondrial abnormality in the muscles of people with chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). With rather impeccable...
The “WASF3 disrupts mitochondrial respiration and may mediate exercise intolerance in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome” study is fraught with possibility. For one, it was published in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...
ME/CFS and FM Moments? I think of “moments” as unusual events that suggest the tide may be turning for these common but sorely neglected diseases. Health Rising has documented several possible ME/CFS “moments” over the past two years and now we...
We’ve all heard about the gut-brain axis. That’s where problems in the gut can translate to inflammation in the brain and vice versa but a gut-muscle connection? That’s entirely new. One wonders much further can the gut after all reach? It turns out...
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...
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...