Finding Answers for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Long COVID, and Fibromyalgia
Geoff s Narration The GIST Health Update Fire Weather This was supposed to be a hot, fire-ridden summer out in the Western U.S., and it has been. My pattern of running into issues continues. This is the 6th strenuous episode since I crashed 7 weeks ago. With three [ ] The post The Fatigue in ME/CFS Comes From the Brain Or does it? appeared first on Health Rising .
Geoff s Narration The GIST Jarred Younger s face lit up in a recent YouTube video when he talked about a recent study long-COVID study: Reduced Adenosine Triphosphate-to-Phosphocreatine Ratios in Neuropsychiatric Post-COVID Condition: Evidence From 31P Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy . The study used, for the first time in long COVID (or ME/CFS), a [ ] The post Long COVID Study Finds Major Energy…
Geoff s Narration The GIST Health Update two weeks of mostly rest have been helpful 🙂 My concerning symptoms (cold sweats, nausea) are down substantially. Hopefully, a couple more weeks of rest will get me back to baseline. Note: neuroplasticity is another hot-button issue! Please respond as objectively as [ ] The post The Big Long COVID Neuroplasticity Trial: Did it Work? appeared first on…
Geoff s Narration The GIST Health Update: Push-Crash-Rebound. I was doing quite a bit better until I had to do some heavy physical work on the van about a week ago. I thought I got through it OK, but then the crash came, and I have been slowly rebounding again. [ ] The post The UK s Long COVID Triple Treatment Trial (Not Surprisingly) Bombs appeared first on Health Rising .
Geoff s Narration The GIST Health Update continued slow improvement! Hot Button Post the reason Health Rising almost never posts on political issues is that they hardly ever intrude upon medical research. In this case, the Trump administration s proposed rule changes to the conduct of medical and scientific research [ ] The post Stepping Backwards the U.S. s Attempt to Politicize Scientific…
Geoff s Narration The GIST Personal Update A Big Crash I always feel compelled to explain what happened when the blogs suddenly stop for an extended time. This time it was a self-inflicted injury which is a good thing, really. I am usually very good in hot temperatures, [ ] The post Pathogens, Blood Clots and Nasty NETS: the PolyBio Long COVID Symposium Pt 2 appeared first on Health Rising .
Geoff s Narration The GIST The 2026 PolyBio Spring Symposium Pt I One way to gauge the health of a field is by the number of conferences/symposia it supports. From the looks of things, the long COVID and ME/CFS fields are moving up: The International ME/CFS conference May 7-8 [ ] The post Visible At Last? Are Long COVID and ME/CFS Tissue Diseases? The PolyBio 2026 Symposium Pt I appeared first on…
Geoff s Narration The GIST The recent Solve M.E. webinar, The Discovery of Target Antigens for Dysfunctional T Cells in ME/CFS and Long COVID , highlights one of the more exciting themes to emerge recently in the ME/CFS and long-COVID fields a new confidence that researchers will be able to [ ] The post Hitting the Target? ME/CFS and long COVID T-Cell Researchers on Uncovering the Precise Drivers…
Geoff s Narration The GIST When it comes to medical research funding, the NIH is, and always will be, the elephant in the room the one organization that cannot be ignored, rejected, given up on, or, with regard to diseases like long COVID, ME/CFS, fibromyalgia, and postural orthostatic tachycardia [ ] The post The Elephant in the Room: the NIH, Long COVID, ME/CFS, POTS and Post-infectious…
Geoff s Narration The GIST The roles autoantibodies are playing in long COVID (and ME/CFS) is one of the great questions in these diseases. There s never been an autoantibody study like the Akiko Iwasaki-led 40-plus author, A causal link between autoantibodies and neurological symptoms in long COVID . Note the word [ ] The post Major Study Validates a Long COVID Autoimmune Subset appeared first on…