The first of two of three blogs exploring the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system in ME/CFS and COVID-19. Warning – this blog is complex… Back in 1997, they had a couple of important things right – orthostatic intolerance (OI) is basically caused by...
Ron Davis’s Stanford ME/CFS Collaborative Research Center is itching to get back to full-time lab work. It’s not that Davis and his group haven’t been working. Janet Dafoe described constant Zoom calls with ME/CFS researchers, a bevy of grant...
Ian Lipkin on long hauling with the coronavirus and a proteome study that may have found B-cell subset and potential biomarkers for chronic fatigue syndrome
The exercise physiologists at the Workwell Foundation are pretty darn good at providing thought provoking case reports. A couple of years ago, a Workwell case report indicated that a very ill ME/CFS patient was able, using Workwell’s heart rate-based exercise...
The Brainstem The brainstem – a small area at the base of the brain that contacts the spinal cord – has become of ever more interest in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). Barnden’s studies suggest brainstem involvement is present. VanElzakker...
People with chronic fatigue syndrome but have not been diagnosed with orthostatic intolerance still have reduced blood flows to the brain during a tilt table test and suffer cognitively afterwards. People with severe ME/CFS only need to be tilted up a bit to suffer severe declines in blood flows to the brain.
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