It’s always hard to lose a loved one, but the deaths in ME/CFS seem particularly hard. They tend to be quite painful, they often take place in the midst of a non-supportive medical system, and they’re a complete mystery. With no seeming way out it’s...
Our guts are teeming, just teeming, with bacteria that provide many useful functions. They break down food, knock down pathogens, regulate the immune system and hormone release, and even affect brain functioning. Several serious diseases including cancer, diabetes,...
A recent European paper proposes that chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) starts with your genes and your leaky gut but not the leaky gut you necessarily associate with the disease; the leaky gut you had before, perhaps long before, you got sick.. The authors also...
For the first time ever in ME/CFS Ian Lipkin merged a gut microbiome and a metabolomics study together and came up with some surprising results. For one the differences in the gut microbiome were more profound than in the metabolome. For another the study suggested...
Using cutting-edge technologies new to ME/CFS, Ian Lipkin and Mady Hornig took the deepest dive yet into the gut flora of ME/CFS patients and uncovered another potential subset – their third in a row. Find out more in a Simmaron Research Foundation sponsored...
Thanks to Simon and MEAction for allowing Health Rising to post Simon’s exposition of the truly remarkable chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) study about to take place at the NIH. This blog first appeared on MEAction. Most images and captions were added by me...
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