The Long COVID Clinical Trials: Big Drugs, Big Studies…and More
The bottom line is always treatments. Long COVID has brought a ton of interest to post-infectious illnesses. Researchers are asking whether they are actually autoimmune diseases, how big of a role coagulation or gut microbiome problems play, if viral reactivation is...
Mitochondria, Muscles, Microclots and New Treatment Possibilities for ME/CFS and Long COVID: the Ramsay Awards 2022
The Ramsay Awards provide pilot grants that give researchers the ability to gather the data they need to apply for much larger NIH grants. As it has over the past couple of years, the Solve ME Initiative places a heavy focus on funding clinical trials that could...
Enhancing Butyrate and Gut Health in ME/CFS, Fibromyalgia, Long COVID and Allied Disorders
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...
Fecal Transplants – Do They Work? An IBS / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) Perspective
This is the second in a series of blogs exploring potential gut treatments for chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), fibromyalgia (FM), and allied disorders. Fermenting Health? The Stanford Fermented Foods / High Fiber Gut Study The first fecal transplant study in ME/CFS...
The Sheffield Talk on Fibromyalgia
(My apologies for those who got two email blasts. I’m not sure how that happened.) In this hour plus Q&A with Sheffield ME and Fibromyalgia Group I got to blab about hot topics in fibromyalgia research, hope for future treatments, how chronic fatigue...StudyME
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