Dr. Stein's Blog
for ME/CFS, FM, ES, Long COVID and Chronic Pain
Many of my email correspondents asked me questions such as what vitamins are good for myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) and what supplements are good for chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). In this blog post...
Using magnesium to feel better is nothing new. Since the 1700s, people have used magnesium sulphate (Epsom salts) to relax muscles, lessen pain, and manage constipation. Apparently, Epsom salts don’t ...
 This is a story written by Mellissa, a person managing the symptoms of ME/CFS and comorbidities and how her life was transformed by Dr. Stein’s educational programs. Introducing self-management and n...
From the IACFS/ME Virtual Conference 2021
Attending the IACFS/ME Second Virtual Scientific Conference, I was left with hope for the future. The number of serious biomedical researchers in the field i...
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August 22, 2021: Updated COVID information: The effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines on the delta variant.
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How are people with ME/CFS, FM and ES responding to the...
There is now an OMF Canada! https://www.omfcanada.ngo/
The Open Medicine Foundation is a non-profit group in the US founded in 2012. Under the leadership of Linda Tannenbaum, the OMF has fundraise...
Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) are documents which take into account all of the published, peer reviewed medical literature and make recommendations based on that evidence.
Evidence based guid...
Many of you will have heard of the PACE study, a large multicentre study of Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) and Graded Exercise Therapy (GET) for ME/CFS conducted in the UK. The first paper from this...
We are entering flu season. I anticipate getting many questions as to my recommendations regarding whether people with ME/CFS should get the flu vaccine or not. Health Canada recommends that everyone ...
I was fortunate to have the chance to work with Dr. Karin Olson, a professor of Nursing at U of Alberta and long time CFS researcher and her graduate student Oksana Zimka testing her hypothesis of the...
Recorded May 19, 2015, as part of the Calgary International Awareness Day Educational Event for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, & Multiple Chemical Sensitivity.
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“Distinct plasma immune signatures in ME/CFS are present early in the course of illness.”
Hornig et al Sci. Adv. 2015;1:e1400121 Feb 27, 2015
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/1/e1400121
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