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Start with some personal problems and perhaps mental illness. Government remedy: Add "remote", "computer" and "algorithm". When the results become "problematic", the wonderful caring government will respond with more surveillance, because Big Brother loves you. Do not object; how could you not...

Anecdata from myself: Absolutely not. I find the worst, longest lasting PEM has come from ‘harmless’ activities continued past the point where I began to feel exhaustion, and when I could not immediately lay down or at least recline at the beginning of it. Aerobic exercise does cause a crash...

Chuckle. Yes they are that for the most part. OTOH, some of the things I’ve found somewhat helpful are classified as supplements. They’d cost quite a bit more if they were Rx, and perhaps wouldn’t be available as Rx. Who’s going to fund full clinical trials for stuff you can’t patent?

Whoops, thanks. I didn’t check the name, just pulled it from memory. Such things tend to run together in casual thoughts. Hayden seems to have been a state assembly rep not a US Congressman.

Only 35 years late. If you follow a politician’s statements for three decades, sooner or later they will make a favorable statement about a topic you care about. Successful politicians normally get that adjective by exercising an ability to persuade a plurality of people that they are solving...

3/4 cup from the top of the box, or from the bottom after the Oat-y-Flaykz have gotten crushed? How do I measure 1 cup of Crimini mushrooms? It fits 3, no 5, well maybe 9, hey you could get 12 in. Volume works for liquids and grains, not so well for random food. Here is the US, serving size is...

Something in the blood could be a result not a cause. Medicine knows how to ‘look’ into blood and can easily get a sample. Variation of finding things under a lamppost.* *This is not meant to denigrate the research in any way, just to point out that research usually looks in places where they...

I think it was Dr Cheney who said that ME is a common endpoint reached from multiple paths. Makes sense to me.

So is the illness we (or most here) have the same as what Ramsey found, something which overlaps it, or something different but related? I didn’t include ‘entirely different and unrelated’ because of the similarity of several unusual symptoms, specifically worsening for sometimes a long period...

Abstract: Prevalence of research having positive outcomes is closely linked to being of the species Mus Musculus, sometimes called "lab mouse". Such positive outcomes pretty much 90% frequently do not equate to results in other subjects. Conclusion: Discovery of methods to convert species...

Who or what is moving towards this ephemeral Institute?

Well, my bad actually, on re-reading I see is misunderstood Gillam as the name of a publication, not as an author.

Who/what is Gillam?

Interesting. maybe OT, maybe not: I definitely have PEM, but not the first two and depending on one's definition, not the third. I do get exhausted, KO'd after any form of activity outside my capacity, which is variable. Often I'm out cold about 4 hours later, exhausted (more than baseline)...

In all seriousness, I consider this state to be non-functional. If I cannot form a complete thought nor undertake some useful physical activity then I'm incapacitated. One can't deal with life while having less planning and executing (lost the word I need here) capacity than an adult poodle.

Does propping oneself up in a chair, too exhausted to hold a complete thought but unable to sleep if laying down count as upright?

I thought this was old news? David Gorski has covered measles erasing immune system memory in has excellent blog. Wasn't it discovered long ago?

I thought mitochondrial malfunction was a part of our disease? What else can explain delayed PEM?

"Even for the short term, opioids are not effective compared with a placebo." WHAT? Has this scam artist ever had a wisdom tooth hammered out? Has s/he/it ever heard of surgery? Are adults actually expected to believe this, or is this another case of O'Brien requiring us Smiths to swallow...

There seems to be a phenomena which has emerged in many places. You might call it The Arrogance of the Institutions, or perhaps the Arrogance Of The Idiocracy. In the US we've spent, on average, a few hundred K$/year on our disease since it several outbreaks happened in the 80s and 90s. Until...