Could a Rare Autoimmune Disease Help Explain the Autonomic Issues in ME/CFS, POTS and Fibromyalgia?
Autoimmune autonomic ganglionopathy is a very rare disease. So why feature it in a blog on chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), fibromyalgia (FM), and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS)? Because it could provide a preview of the future. All these diseases...
The Great Split? Are Post-Infectious ME/CFS Patients Fundamentally Different?
The findings are tentative and need to be validated, but if they hold up they could signal a fundamental split between people who’s chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) was triggered by an infection and those who came down with ME/CFS some other way. If your...
A Never-Ending Immune Battle in ME/CFS? The Regulatory T-cell/Herpesvirus Hypothesis
All it took for Nuno Sepulveda, PhD to get hooked was to read a paper on autoimmunity and ME/CFS. Once this theoretical immunologist did that he was amazed that no one had really checked out the role that the regulatory T-cells – big players in autoimmunity...
Explaining ME/CFS? Prusty / Naviaux Study Ties Infections to Energy Breakdowns
Unexpected synchronies are always a good sign. Many, of course, are familiar with Bob Naviaux, MD, PhD from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Naviaux’s metabolomic work and his Cell Danger Response (CDR) hypothesis have opened up new possible ways of...
Bridging the Gap? Fibromyalgia, Women and Autoimmunity
There’s a big elephant in the room in both fibromyalgia (FM) and chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and it’s women. The fact that a lot more women than men have these diseases must mean something, yet except for Dr. Klimas’s and Gordon...Lives Interrupted Latest Story
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