Planet Thrive

chronic fatigue syndrome

• Brain retrainers: Stop with the “Stop, stop, stop!”
  A creative group of committed brain retrainers share their list of alternatives to the "Stop, stop, stop!" phrase used in some of the NLP-based brain retraining programs for chemical sensitivity and other limbic system impairment syndromes.
• What to eat when you can’t cook anything: Strategies for the chronically fatigued
  by Candice | The room is spinning, your legs feel like jello, you've got an ice-pick headache and it feels like someone whacked you in the stomach with a ping pong paddle... And it's time to make breakfast.
• What to eat when you can’t eat anything: Little Miss Sunbuttershine
  by Candice | Sunbutter is an alternative to nut butter, made entirely of ground sunflower seeds. The first time I tasted it, I declared that it was sunshine in a jar.
• What to eat when you can’t eat anything: Replacing forbidden favorites
  by Candice | Sometimes, just occasionally...for a few moments...I really just want a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
• Art show detailing environmental illness gets great press
  Performance artist Monet Clark's most recent show, "California Girl" at the Krowswork Gallery in Oakland, California is getting great reviews.
• My notes on the Byron White lyme disease interview
  Late stage lyme patient Candice shares her notes from the very informative September 4 Blog Talk Radio interview with Byron White Formulas founder, Byron White.
• Annie Hopper’s DNRS™ DVD kit now available
  Annie Hopper has just announced the release of her 14-hour Dynamic Neural Retraining System™ (DNRS™) DVD series to her newsletter subscribers.
• New blog focused on brain retraining for MCS, CFS, FMS
  LimbicRetraining.com is a new satellite blog created by Planet Thrive that will focus exclusively on neural reconditioning for MCS, CFS, FMS, and related conditions.
• Vote today for CFS research – only a few days left
  by Cort Johnson | Chase Community Giving has given CFS research a kind of life line; a chance to win some big money in a time of dearth and to put that money directly into the hands of excellent researchers.
• Prescription for pain
  by Nadine Saubers, R.N. | Ever since I started the hydrocortisone and human growth hormone and have been much, much more active, I've also gotten hammered with terrible joint and muscle pain.
• Continuing the work of Share, Care and Prayer
  Although Janet Dauble, the founder of Share, Care and Prayer, passed away recently, her work will continue on.
• Second hand scent worse than second hand smoke
  by Nadine Saubers, R.N. | I predict that in the future, and I hope it's the near future, there will be no-scent zones for people who don't want to be exposed to toxic chemicals.
• Phases of CFS/ME recovery
  by Nadine Saubers, R.N., B.S.N. | Nothing is harder than being in the midst of extreme suffering and believing that you will heal.
• CFS recovery in a perfect world
  by Nadine Saubers, R.N., B.S.N. | Imagine if you got diagnosed with CFS and were given the option to go to a beautiful center where everyone understood your illness and the treatment actually made you better?
• Manage your illness – or recover from it
  by Nadine Saubers, R.N., B.S.N. | ... if you want to recover fully you have to look at your thinking patterns that fully integrate belief patterns and patterns of behavior.
• Decreasing brain inflammation in chronic fatigue syndrome
  by Nadine Saubers, R.N., B.S.N. | Steps to take to combat inflammation, decrease cell damage, heal your cells and increase your glutathione levels.
• You are invincible – until you’re not
  by Nadine Saubers. R.N., B.S.N. | When you're young you feel untouchable and most of us unscathed by health problems typically have behaviors and lifestyles that end up trashing our health.
• Peggy Munson’s new campaign to eradicate XMRV
  Just launched: The EXIT Project (Eradicate XMRV Infection Today), is a broad-based group of individuals who do ACT-UP style actions to raise awareness about ME/CFS/XMRV.
• Even “green” products can contain toxic ingredients
  by Nadine Saubers, R.N., B.S.N. | Dr. Anne C. Steinemann's latest research shows that even "green" fragranced products can contain harmful chemical ingredients.
• Neural therapy, CFS, and you
  by Nadine Saubers, R.N. | People contact me all the time and so many of them tell me that they've literally tried everything to recover from CFS but nothing seems to work.
• The best offense is a good offense: what we need to learn from AIDS
  by Peggy Munson | ...ME/CFS patients have tended to get sucked into what domestic violence activists call the “cycle of violence,” believing the bullies’ lies that they will change...
• Antidepressants, CFS, and you
  by Nadine Saubers, R.N. | When I became profoundly ill and I couldn't get answers from doctors, their solution was to give me extremely injurious, health-killing medications.
• Study on Gupta Amygdala Retraining™ published
  Ashok Gupta has announced the publication of the Clinical Audit Study this month on Gupta Amygdala Retraining™ treatments for ME/CFS, Fibromyalgia and MCS.
• Life as art: healing from CFS, FMS, and MCS
  How does one go from twelve years in a wheelchair and mostly bedridden to walking, world traveling, working, and riding a bike?
• Fatigue, weight loss, and you!
  by Nadine Saubers, R.N. | You canot heal without giving your cells what they need, nutrients.
• CFS/FMS with lyme
  Dear Stephen, I have chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia. My lyme test was negative but I have enough symptoms along with high virus counts, etc. that your lyme herbs seemed worth a try.
• CFS, monolaurin, and the herpes virus
  by Nadine Saubers, R.N. | There’s a huge link between CFS and viral illnesses like herpes. Monolaurin is a supplement that can help manage this virus.
• Please stop killing my mitochondria
  by Nadine Saubers, R.N. | Anyone with CFS can tell you that there is a problem generating energy even if they know nothing about the mitochondria.
• Healing with probiotics
  by Nadine Saubers, R.N. | Our natural healthy probiotic levels are easily damaged by factors such as poor diet, stress, alcohol, hormonal fluctuations, cigarettes, surgery and drugs.
• How I healed my “burning mouth syndrome”
  by Nadine Saubers, R.N. | Burning Mouth Syndrome (BMS) is an idiopathic (unknown cause) condition characterized by a continuous burning and intense pain of the mucosa of the mouth, tongue, lips and oral mucosa.
• Hypoglycemia and CFS: Deal with it and live better
  by Nadine Saubers, R.N. | The very best way I’ve found to deal with hypoglycemia is to eat every three hours. This has to be planned and isn’t something that I can just suck up until it’s more convenient to eat.
• Change your focus to recover from chronic fatigue syndrome
  by Nadine Saubers, R.N. | I spent so many years spending countless hours thinking, “What is wrong with me?” Instead I should have been thinking, “What can I do to heal myself and recover?"
• Anger in the CFS community: its wasted energy
  by Nadine Saubers, R.N. | I don’t EVER go to CFS forums because if I do and I mention recovery, the hostility directed at me is so over the top and completely out of context with the reality I suffered for over 20 years.
• Energy Revitalization contraindicated with antidepressants?
  If someone is using an anti-depressant medication like Celexa or Prozac do you feel that taking the Energy Revitalization supplement can cause a harmful serotonin overload?
• Got post exertional malaise? Start by alkalizing your body!
  by Nadine Saubers, R.N., B.S.N. | If you have CFS then you are well acquainted with the dreaded Post Exertional Malaise, the hallmark and diagnostic feature that so distinguishes CFS.
• Herbal remedies for mycoplasma and chlamydia
  I am taking an antibacterial/anti fungal herbal mix (goldenseal, cat’s claw, pau d’arco, plus a few others) and would like to know if they would have an effect on mycoplasma or chlamydia.
• 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.
• It’s never too late to get healthy or change your life
  by Nadine Saubers, R.N., B.S.N. | I went to high school in Japan and when I returned to the states via ocean liner with my family I was told by my step-dad, "I guess you're on your own now," as our ship was pulling into the harbor in San Francisco.
• 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).
• We, Tuskegee?
  Severe ME/CFS/MCS patient Peggy Munson was hospitalized, near death, after the Ice Storm of December 11, 2008 and ensuing 3-day power outage. She remembers today, one year later.