From the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, people in the ME and CFS communities, including some researchers, predicted the development of a post-infectious syndrome (Komaroff & Bateman, 2021).

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Low dose naltrexone (LDN) has been used since the 1980s in alternative and environmental medical circles. In the past 15 years, LDN has been used more widely in autoimmune disorders like Crohn’s disea...

My Story of Recovery from Inflammation Using Diet

When I tell my story of recovery, naturally, people want to know what I did to feel so much better. For me, diet is key, and I learned this through c...

What Causes Autoimmune Disorders?

Autoimmunity occurs when the immune cells of the body, whose job it is to attack invaders such as viruses and bacteria, damage the body’s own tissues instead. Multip...

The microbiome is the total of all of the microbes (bacteria, viruses and fungi) living in and on us. The area we know the most about and the one I'm referring to in this blog is the "gut microbiome"....

This question—can you recover from orthostatic intolerance—has been partially inspired by a presentation by Dr. Peter Rowe, Prof. of Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University. I was excited to learn from...

What if I told you there was one single cause for almost every chronic disease you could think of and even for aging? Buckle up because this blog will introduce the Cell Danger Response (CDR) theory, ...

Canada has several outstanding advocacy groups for people with chronic, complex diseases. Without them, we would not be where we are. These groups have lobbied tirelessly to get the ear of the gove...

What Is Neuroplasticity and How Does it Work?

Ever since “brain training” became popular, there has been a lot of confusion about what the intervention is and how it works. Many people believe that b...

Imagine there was a drug, an approved, inexpensive, and extensively tested medication that could:

• extend your life by more than 3 years,
• decrease the risk of heart attack or stroke by 50%
• decreas
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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...

The underlying premise of Healing Through Neuroplasticity is that persistent pain is a biomedical condition caused by measurable changes in the structure and function of the central nervous system. Th...