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Cort Johnson @CortJohnson

Founder of Health Rising /Phoenix Rising - Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)/Fibromyalgia/Long COVID journalist/blogger - ME/CFS/FM patient for 40 plus years

Joined February 2009
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Hitting the Target? ME/CFS and long COVID T-Cell Researchers on Uncovering the Precise Drivers of the Illnesses healthrising.org/blog/2026/0… #MECFS #longCOVID

Hitting the Target? ME/CFS and long COVID T-Cell Researchers on Uncovering the Precise Drivers of...

Dr. Selin and company believe they can solve one of the key mysteries of ME/CFS and long COVID: exactly why the T-cells are getting pummeled.

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Major Study Validates a Long COVID Autoimmune Subset (and an ME/CFS one) healthrising.org/blog/2026/0… #longCOVID #MECFS

Major Study Validates a Long COVID Autoimmune Subset - Health Rising

A major study determines that autoimmunity is causing major symptoms in long COVID ultimately laying the groundwork for precision-guided treatments

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Sticky Nets and Damaged Blood Vessels: A Long COVID Subset is Born? #longCOVID healthrising.org/blog/2026/0…

Sticky Nets and Damaged Blood Vessels: A Long COVID Subset is Born? - Health Rising

A long COVID study uncovers a subset of patients with microclots and signs of blood vessel damage who, if the findings are validated, might benefit from rarely used treatments.

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A Novel Immunomodulatory Strategy for ME/CFS A Paradox Resolved? #MECFS healthrising.org/blog/2026/0…

A Novel Immunomodulatory Strategy for ME/CFS A Paradox Resolved? - Health Rising

A novel immunomodulatory treatment approach to ME/CFS appears and a paradox could be resolved....

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Takeaways From the Big Long COVID Clinical Trials healthrising.org/blog/2026/0… #longCOVID

Takeaways From the Big Long COVID Clinical Trials - Health Rising

Only 10 major long COVID clinical trials have been published thus far but that's enough to come away with some interesting takeaways. They include treatments that prevent long COVID don't necessarily...

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Are All Roads Leading to the Immune System and the Blood in ME/CFS? healthrising.org/blog/2026/0…

Are All Roads Leading to the Immune System and the Blood in ME/CFS? - Health Rising

What happens when you throw ten or so very different ME/CFS studies together? You get some core themes popping out. Check out the blog and see what they are.

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This is absolutely infuriating and completely idiotic. An estimated 95,000 scientists and researchers have left federal agencies since Trump returned to the White House. These are the people tracking hurricanes, studying pediatric cancer, and modeling the climate tipping points that determine whether we can still prevent catastrophe. We lost them because this administration defunded their work, shuttered their offices, and made clear that finding out the truth is no longer a government priority. NASA’s own administrator just said studying climate change isn’t part of NASA’s mission. The agency that first warned Congress about global warming in 1988 now treats that work as a distraction. Meanwhile, China and Europe are recruiting our scientists, funding their labs, and making long-term bets on the industries of the future while we gut the research infrastructure that took generations to build. We are surrendering global scientific leadership voluntarily, deliberately, and one resignation letter at a time. nytimes.com/2026/03/25/clima…

Prominent Climate Scientist Resigns From NASA, Citing Trump’s Attack on Science (Gift Article)

Kate Marvel, a well-known author, joins an estimated 95,000 people who have left federal science agencies since President Trump returned to the White House.

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“Invisible No More”: Exploring Dr. Ruhoy’s New Treatment Guide for ME/CFS, Long COVID, etc. healthrising.org/blog/2026/0… #MECFS #LongCOVID

"Invisible No More": Exploring Dr. Ruhoy's New Treatment Guide for ME/CFS, Long COVID, etc. -...

An in-depth exploration of Dr. Ruhoy's treatment guide "Invisible No More" for ME/CFS, long COVID and similar diseases

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The Massive Sequence ME/CFS and Long COVID Project Aims to Find the Precise Drivers of These Illnesses #MECFS #longCOVID healthrising.org/blog/2026/0…

The Massive Sequence ME and Long COVID Project Aims to Find Precise Drivers of These Illnesses -...

The massive Sequence ME and long COVID whole genome sequencing project aims to find the precision drivers of these illnesses

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Psilocybin Passes First Tests: Improves Symptoms in Fibromyalgia and Post Treatment Lyme Disease #FM #PTLD healthrising.org/blog/2026/0…

Psilocybin Passes First Tests: Improves Symptoms in Fibromyalgia and Post Treatment Lyme Disease -...

Geoff’s Narration The GIST   “These substances represent a potentially revolutionary approach to pharmacological pain management,” Crozpek et. Al. 2025 History has shown that our notions of what...

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I have to admit, seeing 3 Tesla cyber trucks parked side-by-side is pretty cool
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Blood, Sex and Inflammation: Did the IMPACC Study Uncover Core Issues in Long COVID and ME/CFS? (Is the blood just not getting through?)#MECFS #longCOVID healthrising.org/blog/2026/0…

Blood, Sex and Inflammation: Did the IMPACC Study Uncover Core Issues in Long COVID and ME/CFS? -...

The big IMPACC long COVID study findings suggest that inflammation and reduced male sex hormone levels may be playing havoc with the small blood vessels in long COVID -= and ME/CFS

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Is the OMF’s ME/CFS BioQuest Study the Study We’ve All Been Waiting For? #MECFS healthrising.org/blog/2026/0…

Is the OMF's ME/CFS BioQuest Study the Study We've All Been Waiting For? - Health Rising

The Open Medicine Foundation's huge Bioquest project has the potential to transform ME/CFS patients experience with doctors, dramatically enhance research and get drug companies finally interested in...

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Precision Medicine Required For ME/CFS? A Deep Genome Dive Uncovers Many Possible Causes #MECFS healthrising.org/blog/2026/0…

Precision Medicine Required For ME/CFS? A Deep Genome Dive Uncovers Many Possible Causes - Health...

A deep dive into the genome of ME/CFS patients points to many genetic causes of ME/CFS most of which impact energy production, the metabolism, and blood flows.

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Tackling the World’s Most Complex Diseases: Amatica’s ME/CFS and Long COVID Project #MECFS #LongCOVID healthrising.org/blog/2026/0…

Tackling the World's Most Complex Diseases: Amatica's ME/CFS and Long COVID Project - Health Rising

Amatica's huge gene expression database attempts to identify which subsets a person belongs in and which treatments that may work for them.

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“Something in the Blood” Again! ME/CFS and Long COVID Serum Locks the Muscles Down healthrising.org/blog/2025/1… #MECFS #longCOVID

"Something in the Blood" Again! ME/CFS and Long COVID Serum Locks the Muscles Down - Health Rising

Geoff’s Narration The GIST Muscles on a Chip Whoa, another muscle study. We recently reported on a proteomic study suggesting that muscle repair problems contribute to post-exertional malaise in...

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ME/CFS Autopsy Study Finds a Wrecked HPA Axis: The 2025 IACFS/ME Conference Report #3 healthrising.org/blog/2025/1… #MECFS

ME/CFS Autopsy Study Finds a Wrecked HPA Axis: The 2025 IACFS/ME Conference Report #3 - Health...

A Dutch ME/CFS autopsy report findings multiple severe problems in the HPA axis of ME/CFS patients.

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A Fibromyalgia Autoimmune Subset Rears Its Head healthrising.org/blog/2025/1… #FM

A Fibromyalgia Autoimmune Subset Rears Its Head - Health Rising

More evidence is presented that the most severely ill fibromyalgia patients have an autoimmune disease.

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A Long COVID Autoimmune Subset Coming into View? (and Why ME/CFS May be Next) #longcovid #MECFS healthrising.org/blog/2025/1…

A Long COVID Autoimmune Subset Coming into View? (and Why ME/CFS May be Next) - Health Rising

Solve ME Catalyst Award winner Dr. Iwasaki explains a subset of long COVID patients may have an autoimmune disease. Now she moves onto ME/CFS.

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Role Reversal: Could a WEAKENED Fight/Flight Response Be Causing ME/CFS and Long COVID? The 2025 IACFS/ME Conference Pt. I #MECFS #FM healthrising.org/blog/2025/1…

Role Reversal: Could a WEAKENED Fight/Flight Response Be Causing ME/CFS and Long COVID? The 2025...

Low brain norepinephrine levels could explain many of the symptoms present in ME/CFS, long COVID and similar diseases.

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