The idea that the brain is plastic in the sense of changeable, adaptable, malleable is, I’ve come to believe, the single most important change to our understanding of the human brain in 400 years. Norman Doidge The Bay Area Medical Associates in Sausalito,...
It took Tony Komaroff over thirty years to get this done but it may have been worth it. Komaroff, Harvard doctor, researcher and ME/CFS advocate, has been studying, writing about and advocating for ME/CFS research since at least 1987 when he was the senior author on...
Forty years ago, the Epstein-Barr virus was the hot topic in ME/CFS. Nobody was talking about neuroinflammation back then. Now, though, the idea that neuroninflammation may be causing everything from increased pain sensitivity to fatigue to possibly even the movement...
Remy provides the second in a series of blogs on using nimidopine – a calcium channel blocking drug – in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and fibromyalgia (FM). As described in Dr. Katherine Downing-Orr’s 2010 book, “Beating Chronic Fatigue Your...
I can hardly believe it myself. My ME is in remission. Jen Brea She ditched her wheelchair seven weeks ago. Her POTS disappeared in March. The sensitivities to sound, light, vibration and touch are gone. So is the muscle twitching, the air hunger, the restless legs,...
Studies suggest it’s possible that every aspect of muscle activity – from oxygen uptake by the muscles, to mitochondrial functioning, to lactate build up, to the ability of the muscles to relax, to problems with the microcirculation – are present to some degree in...
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