Planet Thrive

Chronic Fatigue / ME News (24 items)

• Fiscal Support for HUD Housing
  Help save people at risk of homelessness who are currently receiving Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers. Make a phone call before Thursday, July 1st in support of funding for this program.
• New movie: What about ME?
  There is a new feature length documentary in production with a release date of 2011 that tells the political history of myalgic encephalomyelitis. You can help get the movie completed.
• Annie Hopper meets with neuroplasticity author Norman Doidge, MD
  The creator of the Dynamic Neural Retraining System™ talks face-to-face with the author of The Brain That Changes Itself about chemical intolerance and the promise of a brain plasticity treatment approach.
• Call for submissions: Scarsongs
  Submit your writing and art for an anthology articulating the terrain of trauma and resilience - a collaboration of the Icarus Project, the Bay Area Radical Mental Health Collective, and Activist Trauma Support.
• Mayo Clinic to Study CFS/FMS Amygdala Retraining
  The Mayo Clinic is conducting a pilot study of the Gupta Amygdala Retraining™ Programme for patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and fibromyalgia (FMS).
• MCS Brain Retraining: Medical Scam or Breakthrough?
  The Canary Report's recently published op-ed "The False Promise of Miracle Cures for MCS" by Lourdes Salvador and Linda Sepp is full of disinformation.
• Dr. Oz Features ME/CFS and XMRV
  On Thursday, December 3, Dr. Oz spoke with Donnica Moore, MD, as well as a recovered patient and shared an animation video showing how the virus incorporates itself into the DNA within our cells.
• CFS/ME and XMRV on Doctor Oz Tomorrow
  Dr. Mehmet Oz will be featuring CFS/ME on his talk show this Thursday, December 3, 2009. Check local listings for times.
• Online fundraiser for severe ME/CFS and MCS sufferer
  Help Jason keep his love Nicole afloat: on "bad days" she cannot speak and can barely turn over in bed. With savings dwindling quickly, they are appealing to friends and family for help.
• Dr. Oz show to feature CFS/ME and XMRV
  Mehmet Oz, M.D. will be focusing on the XMRV discovery and its implications for CFS/ME sufferers in an upcoming show. Want to share your story?
• Missing: A life broken by Multiple Chemical Sensitivities
  Salvador López Arnal interviews Eva Caballé, Spanish author and MCS activist, about her new book "Desaparecida. Una vida rota por la sensibilidad química múltiple" ("Missing. A life broken by Multiple Chemical Sensitivities").
• Recovered CFS/ME Patient Goes to Washington, D.C.
  Recovered CFS/ME patient Mike Dessin offers his testimony to the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Advisory Committee (CFSAC) in Washington, D.C.
• Ashok Gupta Interview
  Planet Thrive founder Julie Genser interviews Ashok Gupta to get a more in-depth view into the Amygdala Retraining™ Program for CFS/ME and related disorders.
• Fly Away to XAND-ado, or Where Is Elaine DeFreitas?
  CFS/ME patient-activist Peggy Munson's latest missive urges other CFS/ME patients to Tweet, post on Facebook and use other accessible forms of activism to keep the XMRV conversation going.
• How XMRV Retrovirus Findings May Fit With The Amygdala Hyperarousal Model for ME/CFS
  Ashok Gupta has written a draft medical paper which explains how the recent XMRV findings fit with his Amygdala Hyperarousal Model for ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia.
• Rewiring the Chemically Sensitive Brain
  Annie Hopper's Dynamic Neural Retraining System offers new hope to those with severe chemical and electrical sensitivities, fibromyalgia, and related conditions
• “First, Do No Pharma”
  Peggy Munson, ME/CFS patient/activist, counters Mike Adams and other proponents of alternative medicine that have written off XMRV as Big Pharma conspiracy.
• ‘There’s no such thing as a virus that causes CFS’
  Mike "The Health Ranger" Adams of NaturalNews.com claims in a recent article that there is no such thing as a virus that causes CFS. Is he right?
• Peggy Munson: ME/CFS and the Retroviral Elephant
  In the ME/CFS community, since yesterday, there has been a swell of jubilation. This may seem odd to a lot of people considering that researchers just found something in our blood similar to HIV.
• Breaking News: retrovirus linked to CFS / ME
  In a new groundbreaking study, retrovirus XMRV has been linked to chronic fatigue syndrome / myalgic encephalomyelitis.
• The Next Step? Ashok Gupta at the IACFS/ME Conference
  Cort Johnson of the Phoenix Rising forums interviews Ashok Gupta on his Amygdala Retraining™ Program at the IACFS/ME Conference this year.
• Healing words
  Five Canadian women suffering from fibromyalgia, CFS, MCS and other related conditions started a health book club called Health Pursuits Reading/Study Group in 1996 which now has over 60 members.
• Ashok Gupta Explains the Amygdala Retraining Program for ME/CFS/FM and Associated Illnesses
  Ashok Gupta's self-recovery from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome gave him the insight needed to develop his Amygdala Retraining™ Program that helps those with CFS, ME, Fibromyalgia, MCS and related conditions.
• Unconscious Amygdalar Fear Conditioning in a Subset of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Patients
  I propose here a novel hypothesis for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS). ME/CFS may be a neurophysiological disorder focusing on the amygdala.