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These two websites : https://saveourbones.com/ https://www.betterbones.com/ are both geared towards helping people improve their bone health if they are diagnosed with osteopenia or osteoporosis. They have some interesting blog posts (ignore the ones about exercise) which might be of interest...

It's ironic that, in the UK, DHEA has been classed as an anabolic steroid and is a category C controlled drug and is thus illegal to buy. You can find it on the government's controlled drugs list as Prasterone (Dehydroepiandrosterone DHEA). DHEA is an over-the-counter supplement in the USA...

I suspect that a major cause of memory problems in people over 65 is polypharmacy. And I would also suspect that diets are likely to be poor in hospitals, nursing homes, and retirement homes. Older people still living at home and caring for themselves may lack the energy or motivation or the...

Just picking one thing almost at random... Anaemia is a well-known biomedical cause of fatigue. I'm not sure what point you are trying to make. Edit : I'm not disputing that the bits you've quoted are junk, by the way. :)

I notice that one assumption they don't mention is that only females suffer from the pointless crap they are "investigating".

If you want to know your vitamin D level you can get it tested in the UK with a finger-prick test. The sample has to be sent back to the lab through the post. https://www.vitamindtest.org.uk/ I struggle to swallow huge pills as well, and have found that small gel capsules containing oil and...

I had an extremely severe hip pain a few weeks ago that seemed to come out of nowhere. I do sometimes get pain in my left hip and have done for nearly 50 years and I think I know what caused it. The pain is unpleasant but fairly minor in the scheme of things. But this time that I got the pain...

Title : Still ill six months later: 'I have no idea how to get better' Link : https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-53948028

Dealing with people face to face is something I struggle with, and the effects on me depend on lots of things. I can talk to my husband with less PEM than I could talk to a doctor or a policeman or a dentist or a shop assistant trying to sell me something. I must admit that I'm not sure whether...

I like that terminology - official voodoo and unofficial voodoo. If I can remember it for longer than five minutes I might use it again. :)

I've never heard of "B Class women" before. Who decides what class a person is? And who gave them that power?

I didn't see this on Facebook I saw it on Twitter :

This outcome is to be expected. Fewer and fewer people go to see doctors about a health problem and leave the consultation with treatment that will actually cure them. Curing people isn't economically viable. Instead, pharma companies want people to be just well enough to stay alive (and work to...

From the Introduction (my emphasis) : I have recently wondered how often using the word "subjective" to describe anything in medicine is ever accurate. If I break my leg and the injury shows up on x-ray then the pain I get from the injury would be considered by doctors to be "objective" and...

From the quote in post #1... mentalization deficits Can anyone tell me what "mentalization deficits" are? doctor hopping If I took my car to a garage for repair and the mechanic was a poor diagnostician of car troubles, which meant I had to go back over and over again and still ended up with...

I wonder how many of the participants in this trial were tested for vitamin B6 deficiency. It causes neuropathy, several other symptoms, and can even cause seizures. It's also simple to fix. Vitamin B6 Deficiency and Dependency

I am seeing comments on Twitter where people with Long Covid seem absolutely desperate to reject and avoid a diagnosis of CFS or ME or any other similar diagnosis. I think the issue is that propaganda has been telling people for many years that people with ME aren't seriously ill, they are just...

The proliferation of names for disorders assumed to be "functional" will continue as long as doctors want to keep their true beliefs about a patient a secret (from the patient), and don't want to spend any money finding out the truth.

Jake Suett I would agree with you, I think ME sounds to me as though it needs to be researched more as well, but I think you know the findings that we’re finding on cardiac MRI for example don’t fit in with that, but I think that all of this post-viral phenomena need to be studied because we’re...