{"id":10619,"date":"2016-11-17T07:22:39","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T07:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/?p=10619"},"modified":"2016-11-17T07:22:39","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T07:22:39","slug":"the-starvation-disease-metabolomics-meets-cfs-down-under","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/the-starvation-disease-metabolomics-meets-cfs-down-under\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u201cStarvation\u201d Disease? metabolomics meets CFS down under"},"content":{"rendered":"

Health rising blog post<\/strong>: The \u201cStarvation\u201d Disease? Metabolomics Meets Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Down Under,<\/a>\u00a0by Cort Johnson,\u00a010 November 2016<\/p>\n

\u201cThe pathological nature of the fatigue experienced by ME\/CFS sufferers is its inexplicable persistence, severity and its inability to be sufficiently relieved by rest.\u201d Armstrong et. al.<\/p>\n

The Naviaux metabolomics study with its findings suggesting that a hypometabolic state is present in chronic fatigue syndrome was thrilling, but it wasn\u2019t the first or even nearly the first ME\/CFS metabolomics study. The Aussies (McGregor, Gooley, Butt, and more recently Armstrong) have been plugging away at metabolism and metabolic work for years, and their 2015 study \u2013 ignored by most \u2013 was as exciting as the Naviaux paper. Ron Davis glommed onto it early and \u00a0praised it. Looked at in light of Bob Naviaux\u2019s work, the paper, with its similar core findings and somewhat different interpretations, is exciting indeed.<\/p>\n

The Core Problem in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Identified? Naviaux\u2019s Metabolomics Study Breaks Fresh Ground<\/a><\/p>\n

\"metabolomics-armstrong-smci-webinar\"From the Amstrong SMCI webinar<\/em><\/p>\n

Christopher Armstrong, the lead author, is an example of the kind of young researcher this field needs so much. An Australian researcher working with Neil McGregor \u2013 a metabolomics pioneer in the ME\/CFS field \u00a0\u2013 Armstrong represents hope for the future.<\/p>\n

Armstrong was not at IACFS\/ME conference but Dr. McGregor was. McGregor\u2019s mostly been working in the shadows for years but he\u2019s out of the shadows now\u00a0and appears to be in considerable demand. He was not being totally ignored before; a year or so ago the Australian group\u2019s work caught the eye of an ME\/CFS researcher \u2013 Dr. Fluge \u2013 who doesn\u2019t miss much.\u00a0 Dr. Fluge\u2019s subsequent metabolomics work was one of the\u00a0highlights of the IACFS\/ME Conference.<\/p>\n

When I asked Armstrong how he got involved in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME\/CFS), he noted that Dr. McGregor and Dr. Henry Butt have studied ME\/CFS since the early 1990s. After Butt and Gooley published a paper on gut microbes in ME\/CFS. Armstrong\u2019s Ph.D. study examined D-lactate in blood, fecal and urine samples. He then got funded for the larger study that was published in 2015.<\/p>\n

Continue reading this article<\/strong> for more about Dr Armstrong’s work<\/a><\/p>\n

Solve ME\/CFS webinar with Christopher Armstrong<\/a>, 20 October 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Health rising blog post: The \u201cStarvation\u201d Disease? Metabolomics Meets Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Down Under,\u00a0by Cort Johnson,\u00a010 November 2016 \u201cThe pathological nature of the fatigue experienced by ME\/CFS sufferers is its inexplicable persistence, severity and its inability to be sufficiently relieved … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3297,618,1912,1262,1007,32],"class_list":["post-10619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-chris-armstrong","tag-cort-johnson","tag-health-rising","tag-metabolomics","tag-solve-mecfs-initiative","tag-webinar"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5qkYK-2Lh","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10619"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10655,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10619\/revisions\/10655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}