Thanks to everyone who supported Health Rising during its fundraising drive! We will report the results in about a week 🙂 What a heartening story Wes Ely MD, MPH is. He’s precisely the kind of researcher we want studying long COVID (and ultimately, ME/CFS. Given...
Our last blog covered a study showing that intense exercise messes with the mitochondria, inhibits energy production, and can even produce muscle damage in some people with long COVID. Is all exercise necessarily bad, though? ME/CFS experts, and now David Putrino in...
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 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,...
Janet Dafoe has been doing an informative series of videos on the Open Medicine Foundation’s work. Her patient-centered approach – she often interrupts a researcher engaging in “research speak” to clarify in simple English what’s going on...