By Lisa Petrison, Ph.D. More than 1,000 peer-reviewed articles have been published demonstrating a wide variety of physiological abnormalities in patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis, chronic fatigue…
A new Netflix series called “Afflicted” has prompted a good deal of discussion and considerable outrage in the chronic illness community, due to its suggestion that seven featured illness…
A panel of research and medical specialists in the disease of ME/CFS shared their thoughts about ways in which the role that mycotoxins may be playing in…
Jennifer Brea was a Ph.D. student at Harvard University in 2012 when she was struck down with a flu that left her bedridden and experiencing a…
Erik Johnson became aware of the negative effects of toxic mold on his health in the early 1970’s as a student at Truckee High School in…
ME/CFS patient and mold avoider Lissa Nilsson discusses the challenges that she and her husband faced after finding that their home had a major toxic mold…
Julie Rehmeyer is a math and science journalist and ME/CFS sufferer who turned to the mold avoidance approach described in the book A Beginner’s Guide to Mold…
Paradigm Change has launched a new website designed to provide credible and factual information about ME and CFS to researchers, physicians, journalists, government officials and others…
The popular ME/CFS blog Health Rising shared the mold story of Chris Graber, who previously was a participant in the grueling Lake Tahoe Death Ride before becoming sick…
Journalist Julie Rehmeyer discussed her experiences moving toward wellness through mold avoidance in an interview in the May/June edition of American Scientist. In the interview, she described…
A case study of a man with severe chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) having his symptoms significantly reversed as a result of mold avoidance and other treatments…
British musical star Michael Crawford attributes his recovery from myalgic encephalomyelitis (M.E.) to moving to a pristine coastal town in New Zealand. After falling ill with…
Mold remediation professional Sanjay Gupta has written a collection of 36 short articles on various topics related to toxic mold illness. The articles provide a credible introduction to…
Many years before any articles about the dangers of mold toxins in buildings appeared in the medical journal literature, Erik Johnson already had developed a concerted strategy…
By Lisa Petrison, Ph.D. Part 1 of this blog series provided some basic information on the findings of a recent community survey looking at opinions related…
By Lisa Petrison, Ph.D. A recent survey presented to the community by Paradigm Change and ME Advocacy asked a total of 1,147 people about their opinions…
By Lisa Petrison Following is some background information about some of the names that recently have been proposed as possible replacements for the name ME/CFS (myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue…
By Lisa Petrison, Ph.D. The preliminary version of the IOM report focusing on the disease that the government is now calling “ME/CFS” was released yesterday (February…
By Rebecca Bailey, Laurel B., Ricky Buchanan, Linda Crowhurst, Peggy Munson, Roger Peacey, Jim S., Katrina Tangen and Daniel Zee Editor’s Note: One of the…
By Lisa Petrison, Ph.D. Like many in the ME community, I continue to believe that the NIH P2P initiative is likely to result in an entirely…