Lessons Learned from Tracking Sleep for 9 Months
I wanted to look more closely at my sleep habits to see if I could pinpoint clues that could then be influenced to achieve better sleep. I began to track aspects of my sleep using an app called Sleep Cycle. The results may surprise you…
3 Supplements to Jumpstart Ketosis
Not sure if you’re in nutritional ketosis? You might need an edge to switch over your metabolism. Here are 3 supplemental tricks to help you transition into a ketone burning machine.
A Keto Diet for ME/CFS & Fibro
Have you heard about a ketogenic diet? This is a diet those in the ME/CFS and Fibro community might want to get to know...mitochondrial, immune cell, and brain effects explained
Moldy? How to Treat Mold Illness
Unresponsive to traditional treatments? Mold toxin exposure may be holding you back.
Moldy? 4 Ways to Test for Mold Illness & Mycotoxins
With a weakened immune system, the uphill battle to improve ME/CFS can be insurmountable if your everyday environment is against you. One such obstacle may be mold. Find out how to determine if mold is a problem for you…
Arthroben: A medical food for chronic pain & Fibromyalgia
Traditional pain relievers for fibromyalgia carry heavy side effects and are often ineffective. A novel medical food called Arthroben may offer a safer solution to peripheral pain in fibromyalgia and arthritic conditions.
Leveraging Leptin
A new ME/CFS study has put the hormone leptin in the spotlight. With it comes new insights and questions. Find out what it is, how it contributes to symptoms, and how it can be modulated.
A Primer on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
A CFS primer originally written for the readers at GreenMedInfo, I give a thorough synopsis of recent research…
TdCS for Fibromyalgia
Transcranial direct current stimulation (TdCS) studies have shown improvements in pain for fibromyalgia patients. The weak electrical currents may also safely improve sleep, cognition, anxiety, and more…
Medication-Induced Mitochondrial Damage
An oft forgotten cause of mitochondrial dysfunction is medication usage. Mitochondrial toxicity testing is NOT required by the FDA. What's in your medicine cabinet?
Beyond the Mitochondria: Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress
Why do some experience no relief with mitochondrial nutrients? Could it be because mitochondrial damage is NOT the prime driver, but a consequence of something else? Enter the Endoplasmic Reticulum…
5 Natural Antiviral Strategies
Immunovir? Cyclovir? Valcyte got you down? Instead of giving up when the anti-viral drugs stop working, there are several strategies patients can use to intervene in blocking viral penetration and replication.
3 Tools to Biohack Your Chronic Illness
Move over FitBit! There are many new applications for your electronic devices that help keep track of your symptoms, sleep, supplements, autonomic function, and more! Here are 3 of my favorites…
Have you been told all your test results are normal?
Excessive lab testing is one of the leading expenses in healthcare for CFS despite the lack of a definitive diagnostic marker. When assessing a complex illness like CFS, laboratory evaluations may be informative but are seldom definitive. Find a better way in my new guide book.
Which Form of Vitamin B12 for Chronic Fatigue?
Recent interest has emerged as to which form of this crucial vitamin to supplement. Here are your 4 choices…
What Type of Dysbiosis is in Your Gut?
Did you think there was one kind of dysbiosis? There is more to dysbiosis than a simple imbalance of species. Here I present 4 subtypes of dysbiosis that have direct, indirect, and complex effects on the host—us!
The Folic Acid Story
New research helps up make sense of folic acid metabolism. A review of MTHFR and what it may mean for CFS patients. Are you supplementing with the right form of folate?
The Best Diet for Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia: Part II
In Part I, we saw how a high carbohydrate diet can be detrimental to many aspects of health important to CFS and fibromyalgia patients—including the gut, hormones, mitochondria, and brain health. So what should those with CFS or fibromyalgia eat?
The Best Diet for Chronic Fatigue & Fibromyalgia
In Part I, we focus on the very basics of a diet that is ideal for those with CFS or fibromyalgia. I give you 5 reasons to reconsider your current dietary approach.
A Modifiable Piece of the ME/CFS Puzzle: BDNF
A novel study showing reduced Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome patients. This study provides another biomarker that validates the illness as real and organic. But, most importantly, it presents another modifiable piece of the complex puzzle of CFS.