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08-15-2007

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ProHealth's ME/CFS HealthWatch Highlights: · Name Change Needs You · Patient Q & A with Dr. Lenny Jason · Gene on-off switch key to CFS?

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FOUNDER'S CORNER August 15, 2007 "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome" Challenged - Time for Patients to Get Involved Just about everybody knows that the name 'Chronic Fatigue Syndrome' trivializes the seriousness of the disease. It is a bad name that has lasted too long and robbed us of our dignity one day at a time. CFS patients did not have the opportunity to have our feelings heard when this disease was named 19 years ago. But we do now. ARTICLES, EVENTS, SOLUTIONS See 2 more new articles Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Policy: The Hot Issues & What's Being Done - CFS Influential Leonard Jason, PhD, Explains Dr. Lenny Jason is one of the world's most prolific CFS researchers - and a prime mover in key scientific and policy organizations. In a Q & A on ImmuneSupport.com, he explained what's being done to punch up research funding, acceptable diagnostic criteria, and a respectable name. D-cycloserine - future treatment for chronic pain by erasing its memory? "You can think of chronic pain as the inability to turn off the memory of the pain" in the brain's prefrontal cortex, says Vania Apkarian, PhD, a pain researcher at Northwestern University. A treatment he's studying - now set for human trials - may help fix the problem. RESEARCH ABSTRACTS See 10 more new abstracts Immune TNF-a disrupts sleep cycle genes, may explain chronic fatigue Swiss researchers discover that immune system cytokine Tumor Necrosis Factor alpha (TNF-a) - which signals cells to switch particular genes on and off in response to infection - can have a profound effect on the biochemical sleep cycle genes, and may explain chronic fatigue. Chronic insomnia linked to significant alterations in brain structure International brain imaging study compared the hippocampal volumes of chronic insomnia patients compared with good sleepers. MONTHLY FAVORITES Visit our store FibroSleep - Introductory Pricing: Save 20% The all-in-one natural sleep support formula developed by ProHealth Founder Rich Carson. Provides digestive, herbal sleep, muscle, nerve, and amino acid support. Dr. Pall's Nutritional Support Products Purchase individually, or save 10% with the Value Pack. CoQGamma E, FlaviNOx, NAC Enhanced Antioxidant Formula, MVM-A, Ultra EPA. LETTERS FROM OUR READERS Comments & Suggestions · A profound quote · Naturopath found Lyme disease · More info on Lyme diagnosis · High-priority CFS patient needs Q & A Session · Looking for Functional Medicine doctors · Shingles vaccine for CFS patients? · Does Bikram Yoga help? · Changing my e-mail address? Please share your thoughts with us! Send us a letter WEEKLY INSPIRATION "When I was born I was so surprised, I didn't talk for a year and a half." - Gracie Allen Plant Another's Garden In the words of the Harvard psychiatrist George Vaillant..."Winter comes to every one of us sooner or later. And every spring, just like clockwork, the garden is reborn. By the time we die the real question is, 'What have we done to leave our garden better prepared for spring - someone else's spring?'... It can be as simple as listening and giving support to others - renewing their sense of self and hope. It can be as demanding as raising a child well, or mentoring a student... From Why Good Things Happen to Good People by Steven Post, PhD, and Jill Neimark, Broadway Books, New York, 2007.

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