Post Lyme Disease and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) – Are They The Same?
People who have chronic Lyme disease are a mystery in the same way that people with ME/CFS who come down with an infection and never recover are. A recent study that asked why chronic Lyme patients don’t recover could have implications for ME/CFS. It also asked...
The Blood Volume Paradox in ME/CFS and POTS
Kunisha Miwa has published no less than five studies on the small heart findings in ME/CFS. Now he moves onto a related puzzle – why the blood volume in ME/CFS is low? Health Rising takes a look at his present study, combines his findings with some others, and...
Laggard: Is an Under-Active Brain the Problem in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)
A Very Exciting Presentation Two years ago, Marcie and Mark Zinn produced what I thought were the two most exciting presentations of a very exciting Stanford Symposium. They had used a technology called qLoretta to analyze EEG findings in a way that hadn’t...
The Fatigue and Pain Hormone? Leptin Shows Up Again – in Fibromyalgia
Nobody in the chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) community had taken leptin – a hormone produced by fat cells – seriously, until Jarred Younger’s Stanford Good Day Bad Day study suggested that it might be the factor driving fatigue n ME/CFS. Younger...
Fibromyalgia Study Points to Inflammation, Damage and Low Energy Production in Muscles
Fibromyalgia/ME/CFS sure feels like it’s in the muscles. After exercise, at least for me, they’ll often feel constricted and painful and muscle stiffness is common. The central “sensitizationists: (look -a new word :)) say those pain sensations are ...StudyME
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