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Dr Bansal checks for this : i think it is mentioned on his liME Stockholm video.

Those couple of documentaries on the flip sides of SSRIs and David Healy prolifically blogging perhaps denting market share? For some these drugs are lifelines, for others a living hell.

Yep we could project selective quotes onto buildings for Millions Missing.....

Cochrane is still a problem

Look at how diet has changed . Correlation is not causation but past 40 years have seen wholesale change in food- proportion of macronutrients, processed food, portion size. Even the nutrition in food ( winter wheat's nutritional composition is different to the standard wheat that came before...

Insulin resistance is increasingly being linked to many other conditions - it is linked to inflammation. All calories are not equal hence the daft calorie in calorie out paradigm. Tellingly you can be obese, and if the leptin / grehlin feedback is broken, no matter how little you eat , a...

Does this sound like SMILE - usual care v usual care plus intervention? Where is the control group? ( or have i not had enough coffee?)

For those with no family to advocate for them this will be another kafkaesque nightmare. The vulnerable as a profit vehicle. If CBT does not cut it then what? Just look at tonight's dispatches programme - undercover in a Priory mental health unit and weep.

My daughter has this. I suspect it may relate to liver function in her case ( it is a symptom in Gilberts Syndrome and she does have particular issues with some e numbers - salicylate based which also are in Gilberts ; don' t have high bilirubin though) I have heard it is may also be due to...

GPs don' t really interpret blood tests at all if everything is in " normal" range. They also are not at all interested at how things change if everything is in normal range. We have had huge changes in phosphate, borderline ferritin, blood glucose rising, low vit D ( tested after hassling and...

St Esther keeps good company

Yes, a bit of a rant in retrospect. Unfortunately verbosity is encouraged in my profession.

The heart is essentially a huge muscle with a huge energy demand. If energy production is compromised, for example with low intracellular magnesium then the pump will still work, but not as strongly as muscle strength is low. I wondered if BNP levels have a relationship with magnesium and found...

I' ve forwarded your letter to my relatives,. Hopefully a few more takers. Mine was a bit wider ranging- for what it was worth Dear Philippa Whitford, I would urge you to attend the above debate on Tuesday 20th February 11-11.30am to represent many of your constituents who have M.E. My...

a nicely balanced letter. I' m afraid mine was not as eloquent!

A very eloquent and touching piece. I hope that it gets the wider coverage it deserves.

From Carol Monaghan' s twitter feed it looks as if it should be an interesting debate. Retweets show a breadth of issues

Surely you forget St Esther? All that dedication and money and no clearer as to how to diagnose ME

Perhaps responsible parenting ( typhoon swimming) may also be a factor?

Yes, but just watch it change. The paradigm is already shifting- but the treatment remains the same. Biomedical and stress are proving a bit like " sustainable"in the green context- sufficiently vague that it means all things to all people.