Explaining ME/CFS? Prusty / Naviaux Study Ties Infections to Energy Breakdowns
Bhupesh Prusty and Bob Naviaux team up to show that a simmering herpesvirus infection could produce the key features of the "cell danger response" where a mitochoncrial breakdown and immune activation combine to sap chronic fatigue syndrome patients' energy.
ME/CFS, Naviaux’s Cell Danger Response and a Nervous System Under Threat
Thanks again to Veronique for providing her intriguing take on chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). This is one of a series of articles from Health Rising which feature hypotheses created by health care professionals with ME/CFS or who are associated with ME/CFS. (It is...
Keeping Up With Bob! Bob Naviaux’s Predicting Autism Risk Study
Many people know of Bob Naviaux’s work on chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), but long before Naviaux came to ME/CFS, he was working on autism. As you read about Naviaux’s exciting new work on autism, ask yourself whether it might be applied to ME/CFS as...
Could Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) Be a Chronic Form of Sepsis?
The next in an ongoing series of blogs on hypotheses by professionals associated with ME/CFS focuses on Dr. David Bell’s 2007 intriguing idea that ME/CFS patients could be stuck in a mild form of chronic septic shock. In the ten years since Bell put forth his...Lives Interrupted Latest Story
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