“One takeaway is It’s a disease that comes from the brain” Nancy Klimas It was one of the most expensive ME/CFS studies ever done. The brainchild of former NIH Director Francis Collins, the unusual study was designed to give the NIH solid footing to...
The Metabolism webinar is part of the ME/CFS Research Roadmap effort. The effort was put together by Dr. Koroshetz and Vicky Whittemore as a way to advance chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) research at the NIH. The Roadmap effort was conceived pre-COVID, then was...
One of the dangers facing the long-COVID research field was an over-emphasis on immune functioning and an under-emphasis on metabolism and energy production. While exercise studies showed up pretty early in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), it took the field a while...
The muscles. Is there any tissue more likely to be affected in such an exertionally challenged disease? We just saw NIH researchers undercover a possible mitochondrial abnormality in the muscles of people with chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). With rather impeccable...
The “WASF3 disrupts mitochondrial respiration and may mediate exercise intolerance in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome” study is fraught with possibility. For one, it was published in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...
ME/CFS and FM Moments? I think of “moments” as unusual events that suggest the tide may be turning for these common but sorely neglected diseases. Health Rising has documented several possible ME/CFS “moments” over the past two years and now we...
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