The Edge: Could Monitoring Blood Lactate Help to Manage Post-Exertional Malaise in ME/CFS, Fibromyalgia and Long COVID?
Geoff’s narration The GIST The Blog (The written GIST is at the end of the blog) Wearables abound (Fitbit, Oura ring, Apple Watch, STAT earpiece) and who knows what’s lurking on the horizon in the wearable world but a recent paper, suggested something that...
The Nath Intramural ME/CFS Study Pt. II: Missed Opportunities, Misreadings and… Success (?)
The second part of a 3-part series of blogs on the “Deep phenotyping of post-infectious myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome” study looks at who was in the study and how they were selected, how severely the study was truncated by the pandemic (quite...
The Nath ME/CFS Intramural Study Pt. I: “It’s a Brain Disease…”
“One takeaway is It’s a disease that comes from the brain” Nancy Klimas It was one of the most expensive ME/CFS studies ever done. The brainchild of former NIH Director Francis Collins, the unusual study was designed to give the NIH solid footing to...
Putrino’s Autonomic Rehabilitation Program for Long COVID: Does it Work?
Our last blog covered a study showing that intense exercise messes with the mitochondria, inhibits energy production, and can even produce muscle damage in some people with long COVID. Is all exercise necessarily bad, though? ME/CFS experts, and now David Putrino in...
Exercise Causes Muscle Damage and Energy Depletion in Long COVID
One of the dangers facing the long-COVID research field was an over-emphasis on immune functioning and an under-emphasis on metabolism and energy production. While exercise studies showed up pretty early in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), it took the field a while...Lives Interrupted Latest Story
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