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,...
Could the microvascular system – the small capillaries and the red blood cells that run through them – hold the key to energy problems in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and perhaps fibromyalgia? The idea that the blood delivery system – not some...
DNA that doesn’t get translated into proteins used to be called “junk DNA” but it turns out that much of it isn’t junk at all. Much of what was formerly turned junk DNA is actually actively modifying how our genes are being expressed and our...
“New data collectively supports the presence of specific critical points in the muscle that are affected by free radicals.” Fulle et. al. A group of pioneering Italian researchers have been studying the muscles of people with ME/CFS – a rather...
An autoimmune model proposes that a leaky gut and a genetic predisposition laid the foundation for chronic fatigue syndrome to occur when an infection hit.
Studies finding increased risk of coronary heart disease in fibromyalgia plus evidence of increased levels of harmful fats and oxidative stress and the inability to exercise suggests that people with FM and/or chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) could have an increased risk of cardiovascular disease.
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