Poor Oxygen Extraction is Contributing to Exercise Intolerance in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)
Poor oxygen uptake from the red blood cells could help explain the exercise issues in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). Mitochondrial problems or hyperventilation contribute to the oxygen uptake problem.
“The Tompkins Effect” at Harvard University: More Than Just An ME/CFS Research Center
Besides the dozens of collaborators Tompkins has enrolled to support him in the Harvard ME/CFS Collaboration, Tompkins is seek to transform medical care there, and is engaged in muscle and exercise studies.
Emerging Insights #1: McGregor’s Grand Conception of ME/CFS
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...
Bad Engine? Is a Wimpy Motor Cortex Causing the Pain in Fibromyalgia (and ME/CFS)?
Studies suggest that every aspect of movement - from the motor cortex to muscle blood flows, to energy production - may be impaired in fibromyalgia. Find out how problems with planning movement, muscle activation and pain inhibition in the motor cortex may play a role in FM and how a treatment may help.
The Hibernation Diseases? Mitochondrial Finding Suggests Fibromyalgia May Be Hibernation Disease as Well
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,...Lives Interrupted Latest Story
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