by Cort Johnson | Jul 11, 2018 | Alternative Health, Homepage, Treatment
Ari Whitten is a Scottsdale, Arizona naturopath who runs the Energy Blueprint website. He’s done an amazing number of podcasts with alternative health practitioners. If you’re interested in alternative health, his website is a good resource. I find that...
by Cort Johnson | Jul 4, 2018 | Homepage, Lyme Disease (Borrelia), Research, Treatment
A series of recent articles have laid bare the Lyme disease problem in the U.S with startling clarity. Given the disease’s remarkable spread in forty years (it was identified in Connecticut in the 1970’s), many people with mysterious fatigue and pain...
by Cort Johnson | Jun 20, 2018 | Fibromyalgia, Fibromyalgia and Pain, Homepage, NIH, Opioids, Research
The HEAL Initiative (Helping End Addiction Long Term) is one of the rare NIH initiatives that presents real possibilities for a long neglected population. It took an act of Congress – which gave the NIH $500 million and specifically directed them to use it attack...
by Cort Johnson | May 21, 2018 | Herpes Simplex Virus, Homepage, Migraine, Pridgen, Treatment
We also hypothesize that migraine may be attributable to a reactivation of a latent HSV residing within the trigeminal ganglion. The authors She was a healthy 21-year-old white college student who woke up one morning to a “scintillating scotoma”, a visual...
by Cort Johnson | May 11, 2018 | Fibromyalgia and Pain, Homepage, Hormones (thyroid, testosterone, progesterone, estrogen, hydrocortisone), Sex hormones, Treatment
Hormones? Certainly the nervous system plays a major role in producing pain. The immune system with its inflammatory processes and ability to create sickness behavior is certainly in the discussion, but hormones? Many women are well aware that hormonal fluctuations...