Courtney Craig

Doctor Courtney Craig is a Nutritionist and Chiropractor who has a special interest in treating patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and fibromyalgia (FM). She became ill with ME/CFS in 1998, at the age of 16, but greatly improved in 2010 utilizing both conventional and integrative medicine. She is featured in the 2016 documentary film, Unrest, which is about myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome.

Dr. Craig hosted a podcast called Spoonie Radio for two years in which she interviewed doctors, researchers, and patients within the ME/CFS community.

Education

 * Undergraduate study in exercise science at the College of William and Mary, Virginia
 * Graduated with honors from the University of Bridgeport’s Human Nutrition Institute Master's program.
 * Clinical training at Palmer College of Chiropractic, Florida
 * Visiting Scientist at Cornell’s Center for Enervating Neuroimmune Disease
 * Master Student in Nutrition and Biomedicine at Technical University Munich in Germany.
 * Member of the American Nutrition Association, the American College of Nutrition, and the Institute for Functional Medicine.

Notable studies

 * 2015, Mitoprotective dietary approaches for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Caloric restriction, fasting, and ketogenic diets - a paper hypothesising that ME/CFS could be treated by improving mitochondrial function using fasting, caloric restriction and a ketogenic diet. - (Abstract)

Clinic location
She has relocated to Germany and consults with patients via phone or Skype.

Talks and interviews

 * 2015, Personal interview on the Intelligent Medicine Podcast: Part I and Part II


 * 2019, Second personal interview on the Intelligent Medicine Podcast: Part I and Part II

Books

 * Oct 23, 2014, ebook/digital: All My Test Results are Normal: A Smart Guide to Testing for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Online presence

 * PubMed - Courtney Craig
 * Twitter
 * Facebook
 * Website
 * YouTube
 * Spoonie Radio website