Understanding ME/CFS & Strategies for Healing

by Patrick Ussher, Prof Klaus Wirth

Overview

Has the mystery of ME/CFS finally been solved?

For decades, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) has remained a medical enigma-misunderstood, misdiagnosed, and often dismissed. But breakthrough research might finally be changing that.

In this accessible and hopeful guide, ME/CFS patient Patrick Ussher distills the groundbreaking work of Professors Klaus Wirth and Carmen Scheibenbogen, who have proposed a compelling unifying model of ME/CFS. This new understanding brings together multiple dysfunctions-low blood volume, microclots, mitochondrial damage, autoimmunity, and more-into one interconnected cycle. It may, at last, explain why so many suffer from post-exertional malaise, brain fog, and relentless fatigue.

More than just theory, this book offers practical healing strategies:

• Breathing techniques like the Buteyko Method
• Ancestral nutrition and gut repair
• Microclot treatment options
• The Perrin technique
• Promising future medications-especially the new 'Mitodicure' pill, which could become the first drug specifically for ME/CFS

Patrick also shares his own story of living with ME/CFS and what has helped him most-physically and emotionally. His goal is simple: to empower fellow patients with knowledge, practical tools, and renewed hope.

Whether you have ME/CFS or Long Covid, this book will help you understand your illness-and imagine a life beyond it.

Includes a foreword by Prof. Klaus Wirth who is developing the 'Mitodicure' pill.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9782959831003
Publisher:	Patrick Ussher
Publication date:	01/31/2025
Pages:	442
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Patrick Ussher has had ME/CFS for seven years. He has a YouTube channel, 'Understanding ME-CFS', in which he talks about the research into ME/CFS and Long Covid in an accessible way and in which he shares treatment strategies that he has tried. He has also written a medical hypothesis on the potential causes of excessive thirst in ME/CFS and Long Covid and why this symptom has likely been historically misdiagnosed as 'psychogenic water drinking' (available as a free download from: www.themythofprimarypolydipsia.com). He also gives regular talks to patient groups such as The Irish ME Trust and has written for the ME/CFS blog, Health Rising, on various topics. Patrick has also written a book which compares Stoicism and Buddhism (Stoicism and Western Buddhism: A Reflection on Two Philosophical Ways of Life) and edited several books on modern-day applications of Stoic philosophy (Stoicism Today: Selected Writings, Volumes One & Two). In 2018, he worked with Columba Press to publish a new version of his late mother's book on coping with breast cancer, titled: 'Following the Pink Ribbon Path'. He has a BA and MA in Classics (Ancient Greek and Latin) from The University of Exeter. He is also the composer of music in a contemporary classical style and is part of the online Artlist catalogue. His music can be listened to on Spotify. Patrick is from Ireland and has lived in both Ireland and France over the course of his illness.

Prof. Dr. Klaus Wirth, Medical Doctor, PhD, has served as Chief Scientific Officer and Managing Director of Mitodicure since 2022. He was previously Senior Researcher at Sanofi in Germany which he joined in 1984. Klaus worked as a pharmacologist in the fields of cardiovascular, bradykinin antagonism, cerebral blood flow, stroke, heart failure, arrhythmias, sodium-calcium exchanger NCX blockers, endocrinology, diabetes, obstructive sleep apnea, dysphagia, and immunology. Approximately 70 patents are attributable to his work, as well as five clinical developmental projects, one of which Firazyr(TM), a drug for the treatment of acute attacks of hereditary angioedema, has reached the market. Klaus was co-founder of KOSA Pharma GmbH. He is adjunct professor at the Institute of Pharmacology at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany.