WASF3 – NIH Researchers Find New Mitochondrial Abnormality in ME/CFS
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...
Signs of Change? Did Two ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia “Moments” Just Occur?
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...
The Gut-Muscle Connection – Could It Be Broken in ME/CFS, FM and Long COVID?
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...
ME/CFS Muscle Study Results in Drug Company Startup
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...
Systrom at the CDC: The ME/CFS Mitochondrial Drug Trial Fails Plus More
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...StudyME
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