Epic ME/CFS Hypothesis Series Not many people have taken their shot at completely explaining chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), but of those that have, Wirth and Scheibenbogen’s epic three-part hypothesis series takes the cake. If the goal of a hypothesis is to...
I tried to lay as still as possible. It felt like I’d swallowed a stick of dynamite that was slowly detonating. Any movement at all would send what seemed like waves of molten lava cascading inside me. As the burning sensations slowly eased, though, I felt an...
“Millions of people continue to suffer from exhaustion, cognitive problems and other long-lasting symptoms after a coronavirus infection. The exact causes of the illness, known as long Covid, are not known. But new research offers clues, describing the toll the...
This was a surprising study – not because of what was done – but because it hasn’t been done before. Since the two branches of the ANS (the sympathetic/parasympathetic) control the heart rate, heart rate variability (HRV) is a good way to assess at a...
What an intriguing study this Chilean, Portuguese, Austrian and Canadian study is. The study takes two fascinating factors in ME/CFS – the plasma and the endothelial cells – and ties them together. (The plasma is the liquid portion of our blood through...
As Carmen Scheibenbogen’s group was tracking down autoantibodies that affect the blood vessel functioning in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), a small German group called Berlin Cures was using a different assay to assess the same autoantibodies in heart...
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