A “Metabolic Trap” for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)?
The Newcomer Phair came to this disease like many others have – he knew someone (a neighbor) who had it. When a piece on ME/CFS by Tracie White showed up in the Stanford Alumni magazine in 2016, he contacted Laurel Crosby in Ron Davis’s Stanford lab and...
Hope for an ME/CFS Autoimmune Subset: A German Researcher Steps Forward
Carmen Scheibenbogen is unusual. Not only has she become one of the most prolific ME/CFS researchers of the past few years but she’s doing her research from a country – Germany – which hardly acknowledges the disease’s existence. Plus,...Did a Multiple Sclerosis Study Give Us Clues About ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia?
The list of similarities between ME/CFS/FM and/or multiple sclerosis is a long one and includes very high fatigue levels, common triggering factors (herpesvirus), female dominance and often relief during pregnancy. Of course there are differences as well but the same...
Stanford Exercise Study Shows Different Immune Response in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)
It’s always good to see an exercise test in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). It’s harder on the patients – kudos to them for participating in the study – but study after study has shown that exercise allows researchers to dig deeper...
Pressure Mounting: Is Fibromyalgia Caused By High Pressure in the Brain (Intracranial Hypertension)
We propose that chronic idiopathic spinal fluid pressure dysregulation underlies both FM and the clinical entity of symptomatic Tarvlov cysts, which both present as peripheral neurological disorders. The authors This is the third in a series of blogs providing...StudyME
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