Geoff’s Narration The GIST Mestinon has done it again. Another study has shown that in the short term, at least, Mestinon can move the needle on two factors, energy production and strength, that are in short supply in ME/CFS. This study assessed handgrip strength. What, you might ask, could […] The post Exertion Enhancer? Mestinon (Again) Moves the Needle on a Key Marker in ME/CFS appeared first on Health Rising.| Health Rising
I owned a specialty food shop when my life was upended by ME/CFS, forcing me to completely reinvent myself and my relationship with food. My debut cookbook, In Good Health (out now in the US, out November 13th in the UK and Europe), was written—literally—from bed, after discovering I could […] The post In Good Health: How Chronic Illness Redefined My Relationship with Food appeared first on Health Rising.| Health Rising
If I could wish for anything, it might be something (besides caffeine) that leaves me more alert and functioning better cognitively during the daytime. Stimulants are one possibility. They can be very helpful in these diseases (blog is coming up), but they have their drawbacks. But how about a stimulating […] The post A Wake-Up Call for ME/CFS? The Solriamfetol / Sunosi Trial Improves Daytime Fatigue and Cognition appeared first on Health Rising.| Health Rising
Geoff’s Translation The GIST This is part one of a series of blogs on the Mast Cell Masterminds Conference, which took place in September 2024 in Fort Hood, Oregon. Thanks to Dr. Kaufman and the conference organizers for making it possible for me to view the presentations. One thing […] The post Mast Cell Masterminds #1: The Pelvic Venous Syndromes and ME/CFS, POTS, and long COVID appeared first on Health Rising.| Health Rising
Geoff’s Narration The GIST From viral persistence to complex immune studies, to tissue sampling, to assessing heavy-duty immune treatment trials and large treatment trials, long-COVID researchers are doing things the ME/CFS community has wanted to happen for decades. On the flip side, long-COVID researchers have acknowledged that early on, […] The post Is the Long COVID Field Missing a Major Opportunity? appeared first on Health Rising.| Health Rising
Geoff’s Narration The GIST It has a kind of futuristic aura about it. Clip a little device to your ear for 30 minutes or so a day and get better! It sounds too good to be true, but non-invasive vagus nerve stimulators are affecting the largest nerve in the […] The post The Promise of Vagus Nerve Stimulation – and the No Brainer Long COVID Trial Underway appeared first on Health Rising.| Health Rising
Geoff’s Translation GIST Health Rising recently covered two big complex studies – one from the Lipkin group and the DecodeME genetic studies – and now here’s the BioMapAI study “AI-driven multi-omics modeling of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome” which uses a very different approach. The authors are very high on this […] The post Gut Reactions: BioMapAI Points to Multiple Dysregulated Systems in ME/CFS appeared first on Health Rising.| Health Rising
Geoff’s Narrations The GIST When Health Rising is off the air for a while, I feel compelled to explain why. Sometimes when it rains, it pours, and it’s been pouring lately. It started off with a catastrophic engine failure of the van (it needs a new engine), a 2 […] The post “Screaming Immune Activation”: Major Lipkin Study Finds ME/CFS Systems Folding Under the Stress appeared first on Health Rising.| Health Rising
Geoff’s Narration The GIST Whoa! This was a bit of unexpected good news. I had to read the sentence from Solve M.E. below twice to make sure I got it right. “This year’s Senate Appropriations bills include some of the strongest support for ME/CFS we’ve seen in over a […] The post Surprise! The Senate Bill Includes “Some of the Strongest Support for ME/CFS in Years”: Plus, Taking it to the House appeared first on Health Rising.| Health Rising
Geoff’s Narration The GIST Three years ago, I had several discussions with a retired ME/CFS/FM doctor (who also had ME/CFS/FM) named Frank Perrino. Perrino was full of interesting ideas about these diseases, but at one point, our conversations abruptly stopped. I tried but failed to get back in touch […] The post Could ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia Be Narcoleptic Spectrum Disorders? appeared first on Health Rising.| Health Rising