Exercise Exposes New Types of Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS)
POTS is a condition characterized by very rapid heart rates (>40 bpm increase – adolescents; 30 bpm increase – adults) and pooling of blood in the lower body while standing. It has strikingly similar symptoms (fatigue, exercise intolerance, dizziness,...
Is Chronic Fatigue Syndrome An Inflammatory Disease? The 2016 IACFS/ME Conference Overviews Pt. II
What disease does ME/CFS closely resemble? How does exercise effect the immune system? How did mast cells get implicated in ME/CFS? What kind of “storm” may be present in ME/CFS? What three viruses were implicated (once again) in this disease? Find out the...
Iron Man: How One Young Person Recovered From POTS / ME/CFS
Infection Fells Teenager In August 2014, a formerly very healthy and active Jack Schlanger entered the realm of the chronically ill. The thirteen-year-old’s story began with three days of high fever followed by eight days of lower-grade fever and extreme...
The IACFS/ME 2016 Conference Overviews #1: Energy and Exercise To the Fore
The wind blew like mad all four days of the conference. Maybe those are winds of change… A sense of excitement and hope I hadn’t seen before pervaded this conference. More than anything else, this was a conference of possible beginnings. Fields of inquiry...
The “Starvation” Disease? Metabolomics Meets Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Down Under
“The pathological nature of the fatigue experienced by ME/CFS sufferers is its inexplicable persistence, severity and its inability to be sufficiently relieved by rest.” Armstrong et. al. The Naviaux metabolomics study with its findings suggesting that a hypometabolic...StudyME
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