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...
It’s not all about the research or even finding good treatments. It’s also about getting through these diseases in as good shape as possible, and for me – my dogs, River and Skye – have been a big help. After Tug – a Border Collie mix I...
Twenty-twenty-three turned out to be quite a year. No, we didn’t solve long COVID or ME/CFS, but good trends emerged for both diseases. A strong focus on new treatments, two post-infectious/neuroimmune centers opening up, a new tool developed specifically for...
The Inevitable Combination Treatment Approach? Chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), fibromyalgia (FM), and long COVID are complex diseases that affect many systems and can cause a remarkable number of symptoms. It’s certainly possible that someone will get to the...
There’s a reason that methylene blue (MB) has a kind of space-age, industrial-type sound to it – its first use was as an industrial chemical. Check out the recent citations on the compound and you’ll find more discussions of nanowires, dye removal,...