1) Moving paper by young ME/CFS researcher Katherine Cheston. She was aware of the great disability it causes but "encountering the reality of this suffering first-hand was still shocking and deeply saddening."
She gives examples of patients who do not get appropriate care.
Hi @bryan_johnson ,
For people with severe ME - a chronic disabling neuro immune condition- this is how their daily life looks like. Bound to a bed, unable to tolerate stimuli, unable to get the body to move. It’s devastating. No approved treatments. No cure.
Imagine you have to do this for 24/7 - for months and years. Unimaginable, I know.
If you want to support research to support kids and adults - please raise awareness about this condition and maybe consider donating to @OpenMedF or @weandmecfs
Thank you 🙏
@MEAssociation Thanks for all your hard work over the years Neil. Regardless of what people may think, you have been amazing for the ME community over the years. Wishing you all the best for the future and I hope you can enjoy some downtime now 💙
Ron Davis's message of hope for 2025 and plea for help
by Ronald W, Davis, PhD.
Dear ME/CFS Community,
I think of you all every day as I work to untangle the complex molecular basis of this horrific disease. We have made a lot of progress lately, and many scientists around the world are taking the data and making much more informed hypotheses about the causes and potential paths to treatments. I am very optimistic that soon the major mechanisms that initiate the disease will be found. This will allow a concerted effort to reverse the process and find a cure.
This work requires funding and unfortunately, NIH is not very supportive and funds very little ME/CFS research. So I must ask all of you - patients, parents, family, loved ones, friends, supporters - to donate to my research so it can move forward as fast as possible. The more funding I have, the faster I can make progress and the more projects I can take on at one time. This significantly speeds up research and the hopeful discovery of a cure.
If you can, please donate to my son’s birthday fundraiser, where 100% of your donation goes directly to my research.
https://t.co/TXpDROL0IQ
Right now we have multiple projects making progress. Projects on the itaconate shunt, Manganese, BH4, neutrophils, red blood cell deformability, genetics, pathogen hunting, and oxidative damage. We constantly communicate and collaborate with the best researchers around the world. We are working with an excellent team at the University of Utah who have developed three different animal models of ME/CFS and Long Covid - bacterial, mouse and zebrafish. This is allowing us to test all known drugs and multiple supplements and natural products, some of which are demonstrating an ability to block the disease process. Taken together, this work fills me with hope that my son and all of you will have some treatment possibilities quite soon. Please hang in there. We are with you every day and I send you all my love and solidarity.
If you can, please donate to my son’s birthday fundraiser, where 100% of your donation goes directly to my research.
https://t.co/TXpDROL0IQ
Thank you all so much for whatever you can contribute and may all ME/CFS patients be cured as soon as humanly possible.
- Ronald W, Davis, PhD.
(picture taken by Whitney Dafoe of Whitney and Ron)
Thinking of all the very severe #pwme who are spending Christmas completely alone, in a silent room, in darkness, too unwell to even acknowledge Christmas. I see you. ♥️
Delighted to have joined the APPG ME and been appointed an officer. Too many people live with ME, with too little understanding, and inadequate care. It’s time to engage - I’m #ThereForME.
"ME is a very dangerous and debilitating condition."
Heather Gordon, whose daughter Karen has severe ME, speaks to @skysarahjane. It comes as there have been calls for specialist care on the NHS.
https://t.co/PAiZ4D1jU3
📺 Sky 501
An awful condition that rarely dominates headlines, but impacts the lives of hundreds of thousands.
Ministers may have changed, but the urgency to act remains @TimesONeill
https://t.co/wX8MekZH7J
Lee Colligan finishing his marathon walk around Ireland remembering his brother and raising money for ME
Donation pages:
https://t.co/m0wJOmgGUb
https://t.co/tKMuapyePf
#SevereME#MEcfs#CFS#PwME
ME Research UK is pleased to an announce an open call for applications from researchers wishing to investigate the causes, consequences and treatment of ME/CFS. Funding is available to support biomedical studies at appropriate host institutions worldwide. https://t.co/Hee1BIcoJI
Huge thanks to @MattNisbet6 for running the Brighton Marathon to fundraise for @MEResearchUK
“This is such an important area of health which sadly has been neglected for many years"
"GP to run Brighton Marathon to raise funds for #ME#MEcfs research" https://t.co/adXeBaXfpB