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Fatigue and Post-Exertional Malaise Part 3 Jul 01, 2025

What Causes Post-Exertional Malaise?

In Part 1 of this four-part blog series, I described what it feels like to have disabling fatigue and post-exertional malaise (PEM). In part 2, I summarized some ...

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Fatigue and Post-Exertional Malaise Part 2 Jun 22, 2025

Validating Research on Fatigue and PEM by Professor Robert Wüst and Colleagues

In March 2024, I created a short informational video summarizing a paper published by Dutch researchers from Professor R...

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The Lived Experience of Fatigue and Post-Exertional Malaise: Part 1 Jun 14, 2025

How are they similar, and how are they different?

Welcome to a four-part blog series on one of the most important topics in our community: fatigue and post-exertional malaise. I frequently receive em...

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How to Cope With Chronic Health Conditions May 15, 2025

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How we think about and cope with chronic disease makes a huge difference to our experience and quality of life. Our mindset and beliefs can shift us from surviving in anger and grief to moving forw...

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Could the Mitodicure Pill be the Long-Awaited Answer for ME/CFS and Long COVID? May 07, 2025

Imagine if there were a medication that could make it very hard, even physiologically impossible, to crash. How much better might your quality of life be? Or might such a pill even facilitate recovery...

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8 Steps to Radical Acceptance Apr 10, 2025

This is a special bonus blog on radical acceptance. I am writing this blog as much for myself as for you. After more than a month on crutches, I notice minimal improvement in my disabling foot pain an...

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What Really Causes Chronic Depression? Apr 07, 2025

What Is the Science Behind Chronic Depression?

In this blogpost, I introduce a compelling new model of depression, a model with neuroplasticity at the center. The neuroplasticity model explains much ...

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Tips to Keep Your Brain Healthy Mar 07, 2025

Is Cognitive Decline With Age Inevitable?

This blog post is a special feature about how to improve and maintain your mental acuity. You may have been told that as you age, you can expect your cogniti...

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Could Virtual Reality Benefit People With Fibromyalgia? Feb 15, 2025

In this blogpost, I will introduce you to the emerging field of virtual reality-assisted rehabilitation and explore whether this approach may be helpful for people with fibromyalgia and other types of...

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Can People with Complex Chronic Diseases Recover? Jan 11, 2025

The question of whether it is possible to recover from complex chronic diseases like myalgic encephalomyelitis and long COVID is both important and controversial. It affects how our community responds...

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Debunking Myths About Chronic Conditions Dec 09, 2024

Myth 1: Exercise Benefits Myalgic Encephalomyelitis
When I learned I had ME in 1997 (it took from 1989 when I became ill until 1997 to get a firmĀ diagnosis), my first reaction was to buy a pair of new ...

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Does Earthing Actually Help? Nov 18, 2024

There Is an Explosion of Chronic Disease

Despite trillions of dollars spent on health care every year and billions spent on medical research, chronic diseases are running rampant. For the past 10 yea...

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