This blog asks if it’s possible to reduce the PEM period by doing things other than resting. It’s a long blog – you may want to print it out using the print button on the bottom left of the blog. About 5 years ago, Health Rising did a post on...
“Consider that larger clinical trials are often meant to confirm something important to change our practice. The small trials are the ones making conceptual breakthroughs that change our thinking.” Aaron Cypess, M.D., Ph.D., M.M.Sc., National Institute of...
It took a muscle biopsy to uncover it but there it was – strong evidence, apparently, of a bona fide mitochondrial deficiency in some people with fibromyalgia (FM). Julian Ambrus, the senior author of this paper has published widely in and developed an animal...
Several studies suggest that butyrate-producing bacteria are reduced in people with chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and possibly fibromyalgia (FM) and long COVID. The fact that three different techniques have found reduced levels of butyrate-reducing bacteria in...
Hydrogen-enriched water … it conjures up conflicting images of a nuclear reaction, or perhaps the latest, weird health fad to appear (which will soon disappear – leaving a few people rich and everyone else disappointed.) The fact that it’s another...
Last March, I trudged out to the van to install a solar panel. I’d been fighting a cold but this was something thing I dearly wanted to get done. In general, I felt a little activity had been helpful with colds. This time, it was different. The work took longer...
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