Sleep Series This is the 2nd in a series of (at least) 4 blogs on sleep. Pt. I – Bronc kicked the series off with an interview of Dr. Bruck – a retired sleep researcher whose son has ME/CFS. Pt. II – is an overview of a fascinating talk by two...
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...
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...
The brain and the blood vessels. So intimately intertwined but so rarely studied together. In retrospect, that’s kind of strange as blood vessels may have more to do with brain functioning than anything else. By weight, the brain is almost a non-entity –...
A new phrase – “long cold” – recently entered the medical lexicon. A “long cold” is what you have if you fail to recover from an ordinary respiratory virus. That idea, of course, is not news to people with chronic fatigue syndrome ...