Information Overload? Are Fibromyalgia Patient’s Brains Trying to Do Too Much?
The present observations, therefore, indicate the patients’ inability to recruit inhibitory and self defensive circuits against sensory repetition. The authors Is thinking harder than it used to be? Do even little mental tasks seem effortful at times? It might not be...
The Mitochondria Man Gets His Money and The UK Goes MEGA: ME/CFS Research Moving Forward
Thanks to yet another major donation to the Open Medicine Foundation, the OMF’s “Mitochondria Man”, Robert Naviaux, is moving forward with a major study. Across the Atlantic, the UK’s “Grand Challenge” – potentially the...
The 25% Disease: Is Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) Unique in How Many People are Homebound?
Lenny Jason’s recent study indicates that 25% of people with ME/CFS are homebound, that only about 10% are working full-time, and less than 20% are working full-time. These are tough numbers, and they beg the question: “Are any other diseases like...
Never Bet Against Occam: Mast Cell Activation Disease and the Modern Epidemics of Chronic Illness and Medical Complexity” by Dr. Lawrence Afrin – A Review
Allergies are not just itching and trouble breathing or are caused by hay fever, bee stings, or reactions to shellfish and peanuts. While these are the most common manifestations of allergies, an entirely different allergic process can affect literally every system in...
Are You ‘Activated’? Mast Cell Activation Syndrome and ME/CFS/FM
Mast cell activation syndrome is new to the medical profession – much newer than ME/CFS or FM. Diagnostic criteria were only proposed about five years ago and because most doctors don’t know about it, it’s rarely diagnosed. But it can cause all the...StudyME
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