A Methylene Blue Boost? Could a Blue Dye Help with ME/CFS, Long COVID and Fibromyalgia?
There's a reason that methylene blue (MB) has a kind of space-age, industrial-type sound to it - its first use was as an industrial chemical. Check out the recent citations on the compound and you'll find more discussions of nanowires, dye removal, and light...
The Itaconate Shunt Hypothesis – Could it Explain the Energy Problems and PEM in ME/CFS?
Janet Dafoe has been doing an informative series of videos on the Open Medicine Foundation's work. Her patient-centered approach - she often interrupts a researcher engaging in "research speak" to clarify in simple English what's going on - is refreshing. At the end...
A Bad Blood Vessel – Neuroinflammation Connection Shows Up in Long COVID
The brain and the blood vessels. So intimately intertwined but so rarely studied together. In retrospect, that's kind of strange as blood vessels may have more to do with brain functioning than anything else. By weight, the brain is almost a non-entity - it takes up...
Innovations in Long-COVID Treatment – the PolyBio Fall Symposium
The blog - taken from presentations at PolyBio's Fall Long COVID Symposium - is about innovation at the treatment level in long COVID. Long COVID, like chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), like fibromyalgia, etc., presents a problem - it's very complex. Neither studying...
Another “ME/CFS Moment”! ME/CFS is Much More Common than Thought, Says CDC
Whoa. Another ME/CFS moment. "ME/CFS moments" are events that appear to signal that things are changing for the better for this long-neglected disease (ME/CFS). The disease is being accepted more, and gaining traction in ways that it hadn't before. With several...
Apples and Oranges? The Common Cold, the Coronavirus, ME/CFS and Long COVID
A new phrase - "long cold" - recently entered the medical lexicon. A "long cold" is what you have if you fail to recover from an ordinary respiratory virus. That idea, of course, is not news to people with chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) - many of whom became ill...
Why are Some ME/CFS Patients so Thirsty? Have They Been Historically Misdiagnosed as ‘Psychogenic Water Drinkers’?
Thanks again to Patrick for letting Health Rising publish his blog. In it Patrick opens up new ground on a topic that hasn't received the attention it deserves - the unusual thirst that many people with ME/CFS experience. Please note this is a long (but very...
The Nicotine Patch Long COVID, ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia
Nicotine - what a strange thing! Nicotine patches are perhaps the most surprising entrant yet in the treatment sweepstakes for long COVID, chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), fibromyalgia, and related diseases. Nicotine, of course, is the substance in the tobacco in...
Dan Neuffer on Recovery From ME/CFS and FM Pt. 3: Who Can Recover?
This is the 3rd in a series of interviews with Dan Neuffer. The creator of the ANS Rewired program and the author of CFS Unravelled, Dan has been exploring the world of recovery from chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), fibromyalgia (FM) and related diseases for over...