Is Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) a Brain Disease? The 2016 IACFS/ME Conference Pt. III
The low energy state, the inflammation, the oxidative stress – all the bad stuff that has shown up in ME/CFS – does it all come together in the brain? Andrew Lloyd asserted a decade ago that the symptoms in ME/CFS are all brain symptoms. If the brain...
Recovery Potentially Possible: Naviaux Talks on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)
The day after my brother's wedding I shot down to San Diego to meet Rachel Riggs and a doctor with ME/CFS. Rachel, who has turned into a volunteer patient
The Anxiety Question in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia: Is the Autonomic Nervous System to Blame?
Anxiety type symptoms are common in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), fibromyalgia, Gulf War Ilness (GWI), and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS). Dr. Baraniuk, an ME/CFS and GWI researcher, has long thought that researchers missed the boat by focusing...
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...StudyME
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