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...
Can Simple Blood Tests Help to Identify Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)?
Six months after an adolescent comes down with infectious mononucleosis/glandular fever she’s still exhausted – and her doctor is about to tell her she’s depressed and send her to a psychiatrist. But what if a very simple blood test – one that...
Brain on Fire? Younger’s Neuroinflammation Series
Jarred Younger’s recent series of short videos explains what neuroinflammation is, why he chose his unusual approach to it, why he believes the current treatment approach for FM is all wrong and lastly a unique GWS treatment trial that he hopes to apply to FM...
An Eye on “The Mitochondria Man”: Dr. Robert Naviaux and ME/CFS
ME/CFS research is becoming something of a growth field. After a Health Rising Forums member visited the lab of the one of the newest researchers to enter the field, Dr. Robert Naviaux, and came away excited at the possibilities his work presents, it was time for a...StudyME
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