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 | 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... 
by Darden Burns | Dec 14, 2018 | Homepage, Supplements
(Thanks to Darden for allowing Health Rising to republish her blog – which was first published on her Fibrofriends website In September of 2017 I embarked on a healing program using Nutritional Balancing under the supervision of a licensed acupuncturist named... 
by Cort Johnson | Oct 24, 2018 | Herbs and Botanicals, Homepage, Low Dose Naltrexone, Opioid drugs
This is the last of three blogs emanating from interviews with Jarred Younger at his Neuroinflammation, Fatigue and Pain lab at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and at the 2018 Stanford Symposium Younger wanted to know one thing from his post-doc group studying... 
by Cort Johnson | Oct 13, 2018 | Cannabis, Cymbalta, Dextromethorphan, Fibromyalgia, Homepage, Low Dose Naltrexone, Lyrica, Neuroinflammation, Supplements
“Finding an objective neurochemical change in the brains of people who are used to being told that their problems are imaginary is pretty important…” Marco Loggia Jarred Younger has believed for quite some time that the glial cells in fibromyalgia... 
by Cort Johnson | Sep 30, 2018 | Brain, Herbs and Botanicals, Immune, Mast cell activation syndrome
Theoharis Theoharides believes that metabolic problems are present in ME/CFS but he has a new idea why they’re occurring. In a hypothesis where mast cells meet the brain, Theoharides proposes that mast cells in the hypothalamus are pouring out neuro-inflammatory...
