Award-winning science journalist Julie Rehmeyer spent years battling chronic fatigue syndrome. Her quest to heal her body led her to remove mold from her environment, leave the Bay Area, and a take a solo expedition to Death Valley.
She writes about her experience in Through the Shadowlands: A Science Writer's Odyssey into an Illness Science Doesn't Understand.
Guest:
Julie Rehmeyer, award-winning mathematics and science writer, and author of Through the Shadowlands: A Science Writer’s Odyssey into an Illness Science Doesn’t Understand
Web Resources:
New Yorker: A Memoir of Chronic Fatigue Illustrates the Failures of Medical Research
The NY Times: Getting It Wrong on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome