Ischemia-Reperfusion Hypothesis Opens New Treatment Options for Long COVID, Fibromyalgia and ME/CFS
Ischemia–reperfusion injury, hypoxia–reperfusion injury, or reoxygenation injury – whatever name you wish to call it – occurs when a low oxygen state in the tissues is followed by a resumption of normal oxygen flows. Oddly enough, it’s during the...
ME/CFS Metabolomic Study Points to a Potential Cause of Mitochondrial Dysfunction
The title of this metabolomic study “Evidence for Peroxisomal Dysfunction and Dysregulation of the CDP-Choline Pathway in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome” made it clear that something new was in the works. Peroxisomal dysfunction had...
Fatigue Goes Legit at the NIH: The “Beyond the Symptom – Biology of Fatigue” Workshop
Although fatigue has traditionally been scorned in medical research. studies show that ME/CFS – the “chronic fatigue syndrome” – is significantly more functionally disabling than multiple sclerosis, heart failure, diabetes, depression, and...
Mitochondrial Enhancers for ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia Pt IV: N-Acetyl Cysteine (NAC)
In the 4th part of a series focusing on Mitochondrial Enhancers for ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia we turn to a surprising supplement – N-acetyl-cysteine (NAC). You don’t often hear of NAC as a mitochondrial supplement. Lee Know’s book “Mitochondria...
Could a Free Radical Explosion Be Causing ME/CFS and Long COVID?
Bindu Paul Ph.D. is on a roll. A protégé of the pioneering neuroscientist, Solomon Snyder, Paul is an expert in redox signaling who’s written paper after paper on its role in central nervous system diseases. Paul received an invitation to write a review...StudyME
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