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Apparently HV checks if criticism of studies are valid by calling the authors of said study, not engaging with the material. I wonder if this is true for others as well.

Henrik Vogt was recently interviewed on a podcast by a known sceptic in Norway, and it lasted for about two hours. The sceptic has now been called an ME activist by HV's supporters for asking critical questions. I haven't listened to the interview episode myself as I am not a fan of how Vogt...

No, regular glucose. Since it doesn't say HbA1c in the plot or table of clinical values I assume that's what's been measured. The patients can have normal HbA1c values, but that's not clear from the paper. I'm also making the assumption that the blood was sampled when patients were fasted, as...

While none of the patients had a diagnosis of prediabetes, some of them (eight from Figure 3C) have glucose readings above 6.0mmol/L which is the criteria for prediabetes in Norway. The criteria for diabetes is above 7mmol/L, and two patients are above 8mmol/L while another might be above...

By looking at xenobiotic compounds (written in supplementary material), many of the other metabolites are also influenced by diet.

Oh wow, a lot to dig into here! But no time/energy this week :( It looks very exciting, although I'm sceptical of how they "controlled" for the diet of the participants. Looking forward to have a more thorough look at the metabolites included in these analyses!

I have been wondering if this will happen in Norway as well, since a licence fee was not mentioned in the recent LP study that was cancelled. @Parsnip the "Bergen 4 day treatment" was originally a treatment developed for OCD and anxiety, but like CBT it has branched out... The work has won the...

What dave30 said. My thesis (and others who like me have worked with data to be published) are not available in the public domain.

That criticism was supposed to be taken into account during the last delay, though. And it seems it wasn't, making certain persons throw a tantrum.

No, it's a new thing on Twitter that stops those of us not logged in to move around freely. I don't get it all the time (for example until yesterday it had never showed up when I used my mobile), but more and more.

When all the patient charities (well, almost at least?) are in agreement with the new guidelines, and there have been numerous testimonies and even papers written on the harm of these treatments, how is it possible to say it has served the patients "well"? Change this with a drug where serious...

Posts on Clare Gerada and her twitter feed/opnions have been moved to the thread Clare Gerada: influence on UK medical practice and ME/CFS management.

Some posts have been moved here from NICE ME/CFS guideline - draft published for consultation - 10th November 2020.

Yeah, for us lazy malingerers it's not uncommon. You won't hear "they only want medication" if it relates to patients with cardiovascular disease or type II diabetes. The norwegian word "mestring" for those not familiar with the language, could be translated to "coping". I must admit to...

Why do you think so? When it comes to typically lifestyle related disease, where in theory first line treatment in Norway is supposed to be lifestyle advice unless it is so serious drugs are seen as necessary, few GP's even know about our "green receipt" for help with diet and inclusion in...

After reading the study, it seems to me they are looking at the energy requirement of pregnant women without taking the energy requirements of the growing fetus into account. Ie, they wanted to see if being pregnant changed the base metabolic rate of the woman. Generally, the extra food we...

I don't recall seeing this in my mother's old books for when she became a nurse either, but that could simply be because they didn't contain much information about energy requirements at all (it may differ between countries). I do recall my grandmother's old books from the 1940s explaining how...

How does this give surprising new insights when it's what's already being taught? Am I missing something? Except the pregnancy thing, depending on how far along the pregnancy has come we typically add 50-500kcal/day to a woman's energy needs.

I'm glad they included this. Exactly.

My "cardio fitness" on my Fitbit, which also relies on vo2 and heart rate, usually increased when I crash and am less active... It also increases in the follicular phase of my period, and a metabolomics analysis of women in different parts of their period showed a change in arginin concentration...