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Connections, Connections – Fibromyalgia, ME/CFS, Photophobia and MIGRAINE!

by Cort Johnson | Aug 28, 2023 | Anti-CGRP Antagonists, Brain, Brainstem, Fibromyalgia and Pain, Gender, Gut, Homepage, Hypoxia, Limbic System, Metabolism, Migraine

It’s amazing sometimes what you see if you look. A blog on the causes and possible treatments for the very troubling photophobia, or light sensitivity, that some experience turned into a deep dive into migraine and its similarities to diseases like chronic...

WASF3 – NIH Researchers Find New Mitochondrial Abnormality in ME/CFS

by Cort Johnson | Aug 16, 2023 | Endoplasmic Reticulum, Energy Production, Homepage, ME/CFS, Metabolism, Muscles, Oxidative Stress, Pathogens, Research

NIH researchers dig deep to find a new mitochondrial abnormality called WASF3 in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). A clinical trial is expected.

Systrom at the CDC: The ME/CFS Mitochondrial Drug Trial Fails Plus More

by Cort Johnson | Dec 7, 2022 | Autonomic Nervous System, Energy Production, Exercise, Homepage, Inflammation, long COVID, Metabolism, Muscles, Research

David Systrom reports that the mitochondrial drug trial in chronic fatigue syndrome failed.

ME/CFS, Fibromyalgia, and Long COVID – the “Metabolic Derangement” Diseases?

by Cort Johnson | Dec 2, 2022 | Homepage, long COVID, Metabolism

This University of Colorado/ National Jewish Health Center study, “Signatures of Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Impaired Fatty Acid Metabolism in Plasma of Patients with Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC)”, follows on the heels of another study...