Suzanne Vernon’s interest in pathogens and post-infectious diseases goes back to when, as a 20-year-old, she landed a work-study job at the CDC’s Division of Vector-Borne Diseases while an undergraduate at Colorado State University. Ten years later with...
Several studies suggest that butyrate-producing bacteria are reduced in people with chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and possibly fibromyalgia (FM) and long COVID. The fact that three different techniques have found reduced levels of butyrate-reducing bacteria in...
Led by Cheng Guo (lead author) and Brent L. Williams (senior author) this big NIH-funded study from Ian Lipkin’s Columbia team at the “Center for Solutions for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CfS for ME/CFS)” set out to fix some...
More studies need to be done, but it appears that something has gone awry in the gut flora of people that’s impacting the symptoms found in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), fibromyalgia (FM), Gulf War Illness (GWI), and now, it appears, long COVID....
Although fatigue has traditionally been scorned in medical research. studies show that ME/CFS – the “chronic fatigue syndrome” – is significantly more functionally disabling than multiple sclerosis, heart failure, diabetes, depression, and...
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