by Cort Johnson | Oct 2, 2019 | Cortisol, Exercise, Homepage, Hormones, Klimas, Limbic System, Neuroinflammation, Sex hormones
How close are we to understanding chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) when we can accurately predict how the greatest stressor of all – exercise – affects ME/CFS patients’ physiology? Nothing, after all, whacks a person with ME/CFS like exercise.... 
by Cort Johnson | Sep 1, 2019 | Cytokines, Gulf War Illness, Herbal, Herbs and Botanicals, Homepage, Immune, Klimas, Mifepristone, Neuroinflammation, NIH
I listened miserably to the sounds of silence broken by my occasional exclamations: “really?”, “no kidding”, “fascinating!”. During my two long sessions with Dr. Klimas, the recorder app on my phone had decided to record only my... 
by Cort Johnson | Oct 10, 2018 | CDC, Definition, Diagnosis, Exercise, HPA axis, Inflammation, Klimas, Mifepristone
Roundtable The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) flew in about 40 people from over two dozen organizations for the one-day CDC Roundtable on Medical Education and ME/CFS. It was a busy 24 hours. Everyone flew in the night before to a hotel near the airport, spent the... 
by Cort Johnson | Sep 13, 2018 | Autoimmune, Fibromyalgia, Homepage, IVIG, Klimas, Levine, POTS, Treatment
“The bottom line is that we should rethink this whole area and encourage proper clinical trials.” Dr. Nancy Klimas This article is the last of a three-part series on IVIG which came out of my attending the 2018 Dysautonomia Conference in Nashville, Tennessee. An IVIG... 
by Cort Johnson | Mar 5, 2014 | Doctors, Klimas, Low Dose Naltrexone
Francesca Owens has really been through it. A fitness buff, she entered a fitness competition at age thirty-nine and won with 11.4% body fat and a fitness age of eighteen, but after becoming pregnant with her second child in 2001 something changed. By the summer of... 
by Cort Johnson | Jun 20, 2013 | Klimas, Peterson, Treatment
What happens when you get three of our most experienced physicians together in a Roundtable setting and have patients lob questions a them?….Lots of interesting discussion. Check out Part I of a series on Simmaron’s FDA Roundtable meeting as Dr. Peterson,...
