Cleaning Crisis? Defective Mitochondrial Cleanup In ME/CFS May Be Impairing Energy Production
The mitochondria are a big mystery in ME/CFS and fibromyalgia. Plenty of evidence – most of it from small studies, admittedly – suggests the mitochondria are involved. Nailing down exactly what’s gone wrong has not been easy given the variety of...
Ischemia-Reperfusion Hypothesis Opens New Treatment Options for Long COVID, Fibromyalgia and ME/CFS
Ischemia–reperfusion injury, hypoxia–reperfusion injury, or reoxygenation injury – whatever name you wish to call it – occurs when a low oxygen state in the tissues is followed by a resumption of normal oxygen flows. Oddly enough, it’s during the...
Post-Exertional Malaise Busters for ME/CFS, FM and now Long COVID – Take II
This blog asks if it’s possible to reduce the PEM period by doing things other than resting. It’s a long blog – you may want to print it out using the print button on the bottom left of the blog. About 5 years ago, Health Rising did a post on...
The Long-COVID Treatment Trials Thus Far: Winners, Losers and the In-Betweeners
“Consider that larger clinical trials are often meant to confirm something important to change our practice. The small trials are the ones making conceptual breakthroughs that change our thinking.” Aaron Cypess, M.D., Ph.D., M.M.Sc., National Institute of...
Four Experts On How To Get a Good Night’s Sleep: An ME/CFS & Fibromyalgia Inquiry
“If you don’t get a good night’s sleep, you’re not going to get well. It really is that simple”. Dr. Rodger Murphee This is part IV in an ongoing sleep series from Health Rising that attempts to understand why the notoriously bad sleep in chronic fatigue...Lives Interrupted Latest Story
Allyn Archer
Atlanta, United States
Former occupation: Architect, Professor of Architecture
$2,768,291
StudyME
Enroll in the OMF’s StudyME project and help bring about a cure for ME/CFS, fibromyalgia, POTS and long COVID.
