
Episode 49: Dr Benjamin Natelson - Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
TLC Sessions - Living with Long Covid
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The Theory of Vagal Nerve Stimulation in Fibromyalgia
The first set of experiments was done in fibromyalgia. The idea here is that by stimulating the Vegas, you're going to alter the way the body processes pain. That's the idea. And so the little study that you've seen allowed us to stimulate for 35 minutes a day - not as much as we had in that implanted VNS study,. But still a lot. And that little pilot study suggested that this treatment's going to work to reduce the symptoms of long COVID.
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