Autoimmune Model Proposes Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) Begins in the Gut
An autoimmune model proposes that a leaky gut and a genetic predisposition laid the foundation for chronic fatigue syndrome to occur when an infection hit.
“The Great Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Community Gene Study” Breaks New Ground
It’s a bold idea. Get people with chronic fatigue syndrome to contribute their 23andME or Ancestry.com data and the researchers will do the rest. Nancy Klimas’s project at the Institute for Neuroimmune Medicine at Nova Southeastern University ultimately...
Taking a Stand: Fibromyalgia, Orthostatic Intolerance and the Autonomic Nervous System
Numerous tilt table studies indicate that orthostatic intolerance (increased symptoms while standing) is common in fibromyalgia - placing it in a similar disease category as chronic fatigue syndrome and postural orthostatic intolerance syndrome (POTS). Sleep issues, pain, fatigue, allodynia, anxiety, irritable bowel and others could all result from the autonomic nervous system problems found in these diseases.
Stagnant Hypoxia – Where Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Hyperadrenergic POTS Meet?
Despite the current lack of consensus as to the underlying biological basis of CFS, there is considerable evidence … to highlight an abnormality of the autonomic nervous system as a unifying pathological factor. Newton et. al. 2013 A fascinating case of research...
Wired to the Gills: The Hyperadrenergic POTS Group – The Dysautonomia International Conference #V
Italo Biaggioni, a respected Vanderbilt researcher in the field, has co-authored 100’s of studies on dysautonomia. He was an impressive speaker, at ease and relaxed in front of the room. I felt like I was sitting in his living room. He noted that the...StudyME
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