From Skeptic to Advocate: Wes Ely, Long COVID, ME/CFS and his Big Baricitinib Trial
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 how...
Putrino’s Autonomic Rehabilitation Program for Long COVID: Does it Work?
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...
Exercise Causes Muscle Damage and Energy Depletion in Long COVID
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...
To Have a Pet or Not with ME/CFS, Fibromyalgia and/or Long COVID + a Good-Bye to River
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 grew up with - I thought I...
Looking Back at 2023 in ME/CFS, Long COVID and FM- the Most, Best, Cleverest and Strangest
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 these...
Triple Antiviral Coronavirus/Herpesvirus Approach Scores in Very Early Long COVID Testing
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 core...
A Methylene Blue Boost? Could a Blue Dye Help with ME/CFS, Long COVID and Fibromyalgia?
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, and light...
The Itaconate Shunt Hypothesis – Could it Explain the Energy Problems and PEM in ME/CFS?
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 - is refreshing. At the end...
A Bad Blood Vessel – Neuroinflammation Connection Shows Up in Long COVID
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 - it takes up...
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