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  1. Midnattsol

    CBT combined with music therapy for chronic fatigue following Epstein-Barr virus infection in adolescents: a feasibility study, 2020, Wyller et al

    If there's more follow up posts on this, they have published results separately on the music therapy part, where it is stated that the music therapy was part of a randomized controlled trial (my bold). http://mmd.iammonline.com/index.php/musmed/article/view/679
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    BPS attempts at psychologizing Long Covid

    The more people he asks if they are saying they don't believe in psychological illness, the more I hope it become clear that BPS defenders are one trick ponies. Ok two tricks, the BPS approach itself and the "opponents are afraid of the stigma of mental illness" deflection.
  3. Midnattsol

    Signs of Intracranial Hypertension, Hypermobility and Craniocervical Obstructions in patients with ME/CFS (Pre-print 2019/published 2020) Bragée et al

    I'm not sure I see the discrepancy, I have had symptoms for 10 years soon, but was only diagnosed three years ago.
  4. Midnattsol

    The Low Glutamate Diet Effectively Improves Pain and Other Symptoms of Gulf War Illness, 2020, Baraniuk

    Welcome to the world of nutritional science :( Re fluctuating symptoms - you can have fluctuating levels of the metabolites that are causing problems I guess.
  5. Midnattsol

    The Low Glutamate Diet Effectively Improves Pain and Other Symptoms of Gulf War Illness, 2020, Baraniuk

    But the question is - do you have to remove food that naturally contains glutamate? Some of the foods listed in this thread are associated with inflammation for other reasons than their glutamate content (I get symptoms if I eat nightshades). Other dietary approaches that change your metabolism...
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    The Low Glutamate Diet Effectively Improves Pain and Other Symptoms of Gulf War Illness, 2020, Baraniuk

    Hasn't this been discussed in another thread? Or was that a low glutamate diet for fibromyalgia? Anyhow, if their "low glutamate diet" is like the other low glutamate diet and actually a "low preprocessed food with added MSG diet" it's misleading. Glutamate levels can be affected by other...
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    Open Medicine Foundation (OMF)

    Exciting :) I feel better after several days of sunny (not too hot!) weather and have been thinking about NO metabolism, blood vessels, mitochondria etc.
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    Vitamin D receptor is overexpressed in the duodenum of patients with irritable bowel syndrome, 2020, Miura et al

    They state that the relationship between VDR and Claudin-2 is controversal because it is decreased in the intestine of VDR knockouts but increased in the intestine of VDR knockouts exposed to dextran sodium sulfate? That's two very different states, one with an irritant to the epithelium and one...
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    Investigating subjective experiences of cognitive difficulties and objective measures of cognitive functioning in adolescents who had EBV, 2020, Rødø

    Since it's part of CEBA I'm not surprised they went with the sustained arousal model. :/ I do wonder when they (CEBA project, not this particular thesis) decided to look at both CF and CFS. In the music study they include patients with CF who "if having additional symptoms" could also be...
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    A SWATH-MS analysis of ME/CFS peripheral blood mononuclear cell proteomes reveals mitochondrial dysfunction: Sweetman,Vallings,Tate et al Aug 2020

    PCA is an unsupervised method so does not try to separate between samples and controls, that's why getting separation at all is considered good/useful. The variance is frustrating to me as I've gotten as many different explanations for how much I should care about it as I've had teachers. I've...
  11. Midnattsol

    A SWATH-MS analysis of ME/CFS peripheral blood mononuclear cell proteomes reveals mitochondrial dysfunction: Sweetman,Vallings,Tate et al Aug 2020

    The "goal" of PCA is not to get separation on the x or y axis, you just want separation. And they do get separation here, even if the patients are not in a nice cluster (Although to me P1 and P7 could have been left with the controls). However, if they only have very few samples/participants and...
  12. Midnattsol

    Discriminatory cytokine profiles predict muscle function, fatigue and cognitive function in patients with ME/CFS. McArdle et al. 2020

    It was mean corpusclar volume I was thinking of and I'm pretty sure I would have picked that up if it was "common" :P I misread as you assumed :)
  13. Midnattsol

    Discriminatory cytokine profiles predict muscle function, fatigue and cognitive function in patients with ME/CFS. McArdle et al. 2020

    I did not know that MCV was different between pwME and healthy controls. Anyone know more about this?
  14. Midnattsol

    Validation of the Severity of ME/CFS by Other Measures than History: Activity Bracelet, CPET, SF-36. van Campen et al, 2020

    I also average 8000 a day, with min-max being ~800 and ~14000 last three months if I remember correctly. 8000 is the mean in my follicle phase (right after menses), and ~5000 in my luteal phase (after ovulation). My min step count the previous three months has been ~2000 in the follicle phase...
  15. Midnattsol

    The Norwegian ME Association's report on severe ME

    I spoke ahead of myself, I forgot how long it was so even if he wants to help he thinks it might be too big a job. After we get all information from university about covid19 and how it will affect courses/workload we'll see what's doable. It would also be nice to know if something has already...
  16. Midnattsol

    A Low Glutamate Diet Improves Cognitive Functioning in Veterans with Gulf War Illness, 2020, Kirkland et al.

    Many react to fermented foods due to histamine, it's not straightforward in the least to figure out *what* in the food one is reacting to. There are the obvious candidates, but could also be something else. Gets even worse if it's a group of similar compounds you can find in many foods. Or many...
  17. Midnattsol

    A Low Glutamate Diet Improves Cognitive Functioning in Veterans with Gulf War Illness, 2020, Kirkland et al.

    Now I feel a few things are mumbled together. Glutamine can be turned into glutamate, but also the other way around. If a "high glutamate diet" equals a high processed diet, more things are changed when reducing glutamate than "just" reducing glutamate. You could potentially have high...
  18. Midnattsol

    A Low Glutamate Diet Improves Cognitive Functioning in Veterans with Gulf War Illness, 2020, Kirkland et al.

    If the diet used in this study is the same as here: https://www.clinexprheumatol.org/abstract.asp?a=5359 I'd say they changed a lot more in their diets than glutamate.. Participants were asked to limit consumption of items high in glutamate, and the list of "high glutamate" food is mostly low...
  19. Midnattsol

    A Low Glutamate Diet Improves Cognitive Functioning in Veterans with Gulf War Illness, 2020, Kirkland et al.

    I have access through my university to the paper without using scihub, and I'm still only getting the abstract. It's the same as the pdf abstract available on pubmed. Ingestion of glutamine or glutamate? Glutamate/glutamine metabolism is closely linked as one can be turned into the other. Low...
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