They were the “original gangster” (OG) in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). At one point in time, enteroviruses were pretty much “it” in ME/CFS. Indeed, the ME/CFS outbreaks from the 1930s to 1960s resembled nothing so much as atypical...
After attempting to explain the cardiovascular issues in ME/CFS, Klaus Wirth and Carmen Scheibenbogen take on the energy and muscle issues. Warning – this is complex! Klaus Wirth and Carmen Scheibenbogen brought the chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) world...
Whitney Dafoe’s painstaking and illuminating characterization of his descent into a severe illness, “Extremely Severe ME/CFS—A Personal Account”, was recently published in an edition of the Healthcare Journal that was devoted to severely ME/CFS...
Dr. Bateman’s private practice was swamped. Her waiting list was a mile long – and she’d had it! With visions of all the patients she couldn’t help dancing in her head, Dr. Lucinda Bateman threw her hat over the wall, closed her practice, and...
The rubber meets the road for mindfulness practices with biology. Can altering one’s thought patterns actually change one’s biology? That’s one of the questions that Spanish researchers asked in the recent study, “Mindfulness-Based Program Plus...
In the April 2021 blog “Could High-Dose Thiamine (B-1) Help with ME/CFS, Fibromyalgia, and the Neurological Complications of Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome?” I reported on the findings of a randomized controlled trial of high-dose thiamine (for people with...
