The Muscle ME/CFS Connection – Could it Tell the Tale?
The muscles. Is there any tissue more likely to be affected in such an exertionally challenged disease? We just saw NIH researchers undercover a possible mitochondrial abnormality in the muscles of people with chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). With rather impeccable...
Exercise Triggers Major Immune System Letdown in ME/CFS
The great question for chronic fatigue syndrome and long COVID is: what causes post-exertional malaise (PEM)? The latest study to come out of Nancy Klimas’s Institute for Neuroimmune Medicine – led by Lubov Nathanson (senior author) and directed by Derek...
Inflammation, Epstein-Barr Virus and Exercise Intolerance in Long COVID
“MAJOR ARTICLE” It was good to see a study from a major medical university exploring exercise capacity in long COVID and appearing in a prominent medical journal. The Journal of Infectious Diseases gave it the headline “MAJOR ARTICLE”. It came...The ME/CFS and Long-COVID PEM Studies: Exercise, Recovery and Symptoms
Three studies on post-exertional malaise in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and one on ME/CFS and long COVID have recently popped up. In this blog, we cover them all. The Distinctive Symptom – PEM (Not Fatigue) That “fatigue” in “chronic...
The Gut-Muscle Connection – Could It Be Broken in ME/CFS, FM and Long COVID?
We’ve all heard about the gut-brain axis. That’s where problems in the gut can translate to inflammation in the brain and vice versa but a gut-muscle connection? That’s entirely new. One wonders much further can the gut after all reach? It turns out...Lives Interrupted Latest Story
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