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Your Call: Julie Rehmeyer's long road to recovery from chronic fatigue syndrome

  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:

Julie Rehmeyer

New Yorker: A Memoir of Chronic Fatigue Illustrates the Failures of Medical Research

The NY Times: Getting It Wrong on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Rose Aguilar has been the host of Your Call since 2006. She became a regular media roundtable guest in 2001. In 2019, the San Francisco Press Club named Your Call the best public affairs program. In 2017, The Nation named it the most valuable local radio show.