by Cort Johnson | Aug 24, 2019 | Gut
About ten studies suggest that the gut flora in ME/CFS is having a bad bloom. Plus, every week more and more studies come out which underline the surprisingly important role the gut plays in our health. But how to return the gut flora of ME/CFS patients to health?... 
by Cort Johnson | Aug 21, 2019 | Cannabis, Homepage
Part IV of our “Marijuana as Medicine for ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia Series” focuses on a general Cannabis treatment approach. Health Rising’s Marijuana as Medicine for ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia Series Pt I: Marijuana as Medicine for ME/CFS and/or... 
by Cort Johnson | Aug 17, 2019 | Cannabis, Homepage
For the relief of certain kinds of pain, I believe, there is no more useful medicine than Cannabis within our reach. Sir John Russell Reynolds 1859 This is the third part of a five-part series on the use of Cannabis in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and... 
by Cort Johnson | Aug 3, 2019 | Brain, Homepage, Neuroplasticity, Neuroplasticity
The idea that the brain is plastic in the sense of changeable, adaptable, malleable is, I’ve come to believe, the single most important change to our understanding of the human brain in 400 years. Norman Doidge The Bay Area Medical Associates in Sausalito,... 
by Cort Johnson | Jul 29, 2019 | Autonomic Nervous System, Homepage, HPA axis, Recovery Stories
Who better to write this piece “This college dropout was bedridden for 11 years. Then he invented a surgery and cured himself” than Ryan Prior – who himself recovered from a debilitating mysterious disease. Doug Lindsay’s story is so powerful... 
by Dominic Stanculescu | Jul 24, 2019 | Cytokines, Homepage, Oxidative Stress, Thyroid, Thyroid
This is the third of a series of posts on non-thyroidal illness syndrome, NTIS – a pattern of altered thyroid hormone activity often present in severe trauma and critical illness. A recent study suggests NTIS may be present in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS)...
