by Dominic Stanculescu | Sep 6, 2019 | Alternative Health, Homepage, Hormones (thyroid, testosterone, progesterone, estrogen, hydrocortisone), Treatment
In the second part of Dominic’s series on the neuroendocrine dysfunctions found in prolonged critical illness states and ME/CFS/FM he explores treatment options, and asks if returning the neuroendocrine system normality will require new treatment combinations. ... 
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 | Aug 29, 2019 | Cortene
In February of last year, Health Rising announced an unusual event was going to take place: a small drug company named Cortene was going to trial a new drug for chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). Cortene’s trial was unique in a number of ways. For one, it... 
by Cort Johnson | Aug 26, 2019 | Chheda, Craniocervical Instability, Homepage, IVIG, Kaufman, Low Dose Naltrexone, Mast cell activation syndrome, Small Intestine Bowel - Overgrowth, Treatment, Xifaxin
Dr. Chheda’s Road to ME/CFS I met Dr. Chheda of the Center for Complex Diseases at Ron Davis’s Working Group Meetings funded by the Open Medicine Foundation. She graciously agreed to talk more about how she approaches treating ME/CFS in her practice. I was... 
by Remy | Jun 12, 2019 | Brain, Fibromyalgia and Pain, Goldstein, Homepage, Nimodipine
Remy provides the second in a series of blogs on using nimidopine – a calcium channel blocking drug – in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and fibromyalgia (FM). As described in Dr. Katherine Downing-Orr’s 2010 book, “Beating Chronic Fatigue Your... 
by Cort Johnson | Jun 10, 2019 | Alternative Health, Homepage, Mindfulness, Nimodipine, Supplements
“The Fusion model aims to…replenish and strengthen the body so that it can” heal itself. Dr. Downing-Orr I glommed onto this rather old book (2010) and treatment protocol with interest because it was so different. For one thing, its medical approach is...
