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  1. Sasha

    UK Action for ME - policies, actions and publications - discussion thread

    Is there scope for patients here helping to revise the problematic documents? At a time when a huge wave of new Long Covid patients might be looking to AfME for guidance, now is not the time to have a load of misleading and dangerous rubbish up on the site about CBT and GET.
  2. Sasha

    The biology of coronavirus COVID-19 - including research and treatments

    Just heard a UK government guy (didn't catch his name) essentially seeming to say that the government's policy was to move from Covid being pandemic to endemic. Did I get that wrong, or was it as depressing as I thought? No consideration of suppression. I don't feel safe even...
  3. Sasha

    Article and Documentary BBC: Long Covid: Early findings bring hope for diagnostic tests

    I wonder whether we should have less hope for ourselves about this, given that I thought that autoimmunity had been already quite thoroughly explored and ruled out for us (or maybe I'm wrong about that).
  4. Sasha

    News about Long Covid including its relationship to ME/CFS 2020 to 2021

    I heard a BBC news interview yesterday with professor warning about Long Covid and the interviewer saying something along the lines of, 'But the data on that aren't in' and the professor quoting the huge ONS stats on Long Covid back at her. Very weird blindness to Long Covid, as though hospital...
  5. Sasha

    DecodeME - UK ME/CFS DNA study underway

    I don't understand what we should do if we want to watch/hear that.
  6. Sasha

    "Exercise in a pill" - potential for ME/CFS?

    But these do exist, don't they? Vibration plates? The evidence doesn't seem very good, though. I also think there should be external equipment that gives some of the benefits of exercise to people who can't do it.
  7. Sasha

    "Exercise in a pill" - potential for ME/CFS?

    I think walking is considered too low-impact to be much use (as opposed to running, jumping and hopping).
  8. Sasha

    "Exercise in a pill" - potential for ME/CFS?

    I've read it's actually both.
  9. Sasha

    "Exercise in a pill" - potential for ME/CFS?

    I know there are some drugs that stop your body breaking down old bone cells (as you'll know, there's normally a turnover) but it's unclear whether that leaves you with bone of better quality and IIRC the research indicates that there's generally not much effect on reducing fractures - plus...
  10. Sasha

    "Exercise in a pill" - potential for ME/CFS?

    Maybe, but that's why I'm interested in people's views. I was wondering if it was worth putting it forward for that research prioritising thing.
  11. Sasha

    "Exercise in a pill" - potential for ME/CFS?

    The mention GW1516, irisin, Compound 14, and cathepsin b, but I can't see Sestrin.
  12. Sasha

    "Exercise in a pill" - potential for ME/CFS?

    I'm looking at the print edition and it doesn't provide references.
  13. Sasha

    "Exercise in a pill" - potential for ME/CFS?

    It's in the 24 April edition, pp. 46-49. Tagging @Simon M, in case you're interested!
  14. Sasha

    "Exercise in a pill" - potential for ME/CFS?

    The article talks about a variety of drugs (I shouldn't have posted this when I'm so tired and can't summarise - so sorry!). I think it's a massive concern for PwME because so many of us can barely move and are going into old age having had zero exercise, for decades. There's lots of research...
  15. Sasha

    "Exercise in a pill" - potential for ME/CFS?

    In the longer article, there was rather more to it than that (apologies again, I'm too tired to summarise, which must be very frustrating for everybody!).
  16. Sasha

    "Exercise in a pill" - potential for ME/CFS?

    The pill doesn't enable you to exercise more - it enables you to have the physiological benefits of exercise without moving. Hence my interest! :)
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