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This is the fifth in our series covering two experts as they explore different facets of complex chronic illnesses such as chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), fibromyalgia (FM), postural orthos...

https://www.healthrising.org/blog/2024/04/22/connective-tissue-chronic-fatigue-long-covid-fibromyalgia/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=connective-tissue-chronic-fatigue-long-covid-fibromyalgia

Check out Geoff’s narration The Long COVID Moonshot proposal recently introduced by Senator Bernie Sanders is something that everyone with a post-infectious disease – and that includes peo...

https://www.healthrising.org/blog/2024/04/18/the-long-covid-moonshot-blasts-off-without-me-cfs-fm-lyme-pots-etc/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-long-covid-moonshot-blasts-off-without-me-cfs-fm-lyme-pots-etc

Health Rising’s Sleep Series  Pt. I – Dr. Bruck Interview – Bronc kicked the series off with an interview of Dr. Bruck – a retired sleep researcher whose son has ME/CFS. Pt. II – R...

https://www.healthrising.org/blog/2024/04/15/tonix-tomnya-fibromyalgia-sleep-pain/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tonix-tomnya-fibromyalgia-sleep-pain

Thanks to Geoff for providing a narration of this blog   The “complement” system doesn’t at first glance sound like much. Its name reflects the fact that, in part, it “complements” ...

https://www.healthrising.org/blog/2024/04/11/complement-long-covid-monocytes-clotting/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=complement-long-covid-monocytes-clotting

Listen to Geoff’s narration of this blog   This is a wrenching, disturbing blog. It’s putatively about the war on cancer, but it’s really about medicine and all the weirdnesses that goe...

https://www.healthrising.org/blog/2024/04/07/death-cancer-devita-chronic-fatigue-fibromyalgia-long-covid/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=death-cancer-devita-chronic-fatigue-fibromyalgia-long-covid

Want to listen to the blog? Thanks to Geoff for providing a narration of it. 🙂   The multiple sclerosis drug Copaxone (glatiramer acetate) is back in the chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) ...

https://www.healthrising.org/blog/2024/04/03/copaxone-multiple-sclerosis-chronic-fatigue-syndrome/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=copaxone-multiple-sclerosis-chronic-fatigue-syndrome

Courtney Craig is something of a rarity. For one, it took her years, and a lot of study and trial and error, but she was able to become, in her words, a very “high-functioning” person with...

https://www.healthrising.org/blog/2024/03/31/courtney-craig-depression-ketamine-diet-chronic-fatigue-fibromyaliga/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=courtney-craig-depression-ketamine-diet-chronic-fatigue-fibromyaliga

Something new! Thanks so much to Geoff for doing a voice narration of the blog :). If you have any problems please let us know.  This is the first of two blogs on atypical thyroid issues in d...

https://www.healthrising.org/blog/2024/03/27/hypothyroidism-muscle-thyroid-chronic-fatigue-syndrome/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hypothyroidism-muscle-thyroid-chronic-fatigue-syndrome

The second post on the NIH’s ME/CFS and long COVID Conference focuses on a timely issue – the brain. The Nath study proposed that ME/CFS was an immune-driven brain disorder. This part of t...

https://www.healthrising.org/blog/2024/03/24/voracious-brains-inflammation-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-conference/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=voracious-brains-inflammation-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-conference

The NIH’s RECOVER Initiative is in a strange place. It’s gone through most of its $1.15 billion nest egg without producing anything of note and its critics abound. It does have its support...

https://www.healthrising.org/blog/2024/03/20/recover-long-covid-mccorkell-interview/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=recover-long-covid-mccorkell-interview