I came down with chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) very gradually after contacting something called labyrinthitis – a balance disorder caused by an inner ear infection. I caught the virus around Easter 2010. I recovered, but relapsed, recovered again, but then...
Jarred Younger – the creator of the Neuroinflammation, Pain and Fatigue Laboratory – is committed. He knows neuroinflammation plays a role in fibromyalgia (FM) and chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and his lab is dedicated to showing that. So far –...
Cortisol, our body’s main stress hormone, has an amazing reach. Given the effects it has on our metabolism, inflammation, blood pressure, blood sugar, energy production and even the sleep-wake cycle, it’s no surprise that researchers early on latched onto...
Paul Garner’s recovery story from long COVID has met with almost universal dismay and anger from the chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) community. Garner, after all, was something of a champion for long COVID and ME/CFS. An infectious diseases specialist who had...
Tracking in at somewhere around $350 million, the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP) is not a small program. It was created in 1992 to fund novel approaches to “biomedical research in response to the needs … of the American public, the...
Ivabradine appears to work quite well in POTS – but should we stop there? Ivabradine was approved for use in the European Union in 2005, but it’s pretty new to the scene in the U.S. It was FDA approved in only 2015. That means it doesn’t have much...
