The Potential for COVID-19 Long Hauler Research To Explain ME/CFS – Will it Pan Out?
The coronavirus presents both a curse and a potential blessing. The curse is obvious – millions sick, many dead, economies under siege, etc. The blessing is less obvious, but for people with chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and other post-infectious diseases,...
Starving for Energy? and The Immune Hole That Produced ME/CFS?- The IACFS/ME Conference Reports Pt. II
An immune hole may have predisposed people to getting chronic fatigue syndrome and another study is underway to assess COVID-19 patients. A breakdown in the citric acid cycle is impairing energy production and producing increased lactate as well. Plus the blood of ME/CFS patients appears to contain a substance which triggers cells to use up energy and produce lactate....
RAS and Bradykinin: Where COVID-19 and ME/CFS Meet?
The Paradox An earlier blog focused on the “renin-aldosterone paradox” in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS). The renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS) regulates blood volume and a whole bunch of...
Are COVID-19 Studies Already Providing Clues for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) and the Long Haulers?
Could COVID-19 studies already be providing clues about what went wrong with the long haulers and people with post-infectious chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), fibromyalgia and other diseases? Two articles in the New York Times – a feature length one,...
Old Drug Points to a New Way to Knock the Epstein-Barr Virus Down
An old drug called spironolactone opens the door to a new generation of more effective Epstein-Barr virus drugs that could help with chronic fatigue syndrome, long COVID and other diseases.StudyME
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