by Cort Johnson | Dec 11, 2019 | Energy Production, Exercise, Homepage, Hypoxia, Muscles
David Systrom, a Harvard pulmonologist, uses invasive CPET tests to find that oxygen extraction problems at the muscle level are common in ME/CFS. Chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) has a reputation for falling through the cracks. Test after test is run to no avail. ... 
by Cort Johnson | Nov 30, 2019 | Exercise, Homepage, Metabolism, Muscles
The Ron Tompkins Effect Ron Tompkins had recently come back from a meeting with over a dozen MD’s and specialists from Mass General Hospital who’d evinced a strong interest in ME/CFS. Dr. Bateman has said it’s easy to get researchers, at least,... 
by Cort Johnson | Jun 15, 2019 | Energy Production, Gut, Homepage, Metabolism, Muscles
This is the first in a series of blogs that report on the recent EMERGE conference in Australia. The different conference format – which allowed for long presentations – allowed the presenters to dig more deeply into their topics than usual. Longtime... 
by Cort Johnson | Apr 29, 2019 | Brain, Homepage, Metabolism, Motor Cortex, Muscles
Studies suggest it’s possible that every aspect of muscle activity – from oxygen uptake by the muscles, to mitochondrial functioning, to lactate build up, to the ability of the muscles to relax, to problems with the microcirculation – are present to some degree in... 
by Cort Johnson | Jan 13, 2019 | Energy Production, Gene expression, Homepage, Inflammation, Metabolism, Muscles, Oxidative Stress
Nothing happens in your body without some of your genes going off like skyrockets. If your body is responding to something – or acting differently in some way – it should show up in a different pattern of gene expression. If you get a virus, for instance,... 
by Cort Johnson | Dec 20, 2018 | Fibromyalgia and Pain, Inflammation, Metabolism, Muscles, Neuroinflammation
A Molecular Revolution We are in the midst of a molecular revolution. Instead of plucking out individual factors and studying them, researchers are ploughing through immense amounts of data to try and get at the molecular roots of illness. They’re using genetic,...
