Gut Pain Connection Emerges in Fibromyalgia
Few studies ten years ago considered the gut and its flora in the context of chronic disease. Now microbiome studies are popping up in just about every disease. The “gut-brain” axis is a real thing. The bacteria in the gut appear to be able to affect brain...
Emerging Insights #1: McGregor’s Grand Conception of ME/CFS
This is the first in a series of blogs that report on the recent EMERGE conference in Australia. The different conference format – which allowed for long presentations – allowed the presenters to dig more deeply into their topics than usual. Longtime...
New Immune Cell Findings Unite Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and U.K. ME/CFS Researchers
In decades of immune research, nobody has ever called attention to the specialized T-cells called MAIT cells in ME/CFS. Recently, though, two research efforts, working independently, have highlighted these unique cells – which form a bridge between the gut and...
The NIH ME/CFS Conference II: Lipkin’s Possibilities, Prusty’s Big Idea, Oh’s Search and Ron Davis on ALWAYS Moving Forward
Day two of the Conference – not all of which is covered here, started off with a physicians’ panel, then NIH Director Francis Collins showed up (covered later) just before the Intramural study presented some results, then it was onto Ian Lipkin, Dr. Oh,...
Could the Gut Cure Neuroinflammation? An M.S. and ME/CFS/FM Inquiry
Multiple sclerosis is a brain disease, right? Wrong. A recent study suggested that M.S. is actually a gut-brain disease and that drug makers trying to cure M.S. may be barking up the wrong tree. They should be looking to the gut – not the brain. It’s not...Lives Interrupted Latest Story
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