Although I'm not the adrenal fatigue believer (to be honest...although I do think adrenal glands can exhaust, but not in the way it's talked about...
I just know it from dogs and horses: There are dogs/horses that restrict their eating by themselves if food supply is abundant, and there are...
Actually, what are real and perceived symptoms? Is there a difference? And how can outstanders (i.e. someone without those symptoms) differentiate...
I totally agree with you (as I posted earlier). When I wrote about these issues somewhere else, I tried to show that 1) sick people, and thus...
Yes. They have an interest and they "fight" for it. And what do we do? What can we do? It's nice to know we have a perception problem (wasn't that...
I think she used that as an example to show that changing the perception is needed. For learning and improving, the past is suited. I think...
@chrisb, as a lawyer, Valerie Elliot Smith also knows how important confidentiality and secrecy is. The safety of a client's information comes...
She retold what she was told by someone who once was a member of the Press Complaints Commission, where they compared ME activists with animal...
Another thought that occurred to me: For the perception of the "ME community" or any other group - take stars - facts often are irrelevant. What...
She writes - and this was the message I took with me: We don't often get feedback about the "ME community" from the outside. Often, feedback...
Maybe what she means is how the ME community is perceived. I agree that a typical political behavior is ignoring and keeping secret - until it...
Anger, wrath and rage aren't necessarily negative; there's lot of energy in them. In history, some huge changes were due to an angry "mob" (others...
Up till now, I like the blog posts. Thank you @Valerie Eliot Smith! I think she has a good skill in observation, and I think she raises good...
Here is something about Chlamydia that use the calcium pathway, too: https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1006911
Yes, viruses like EBV, HIV, and some HHV (I forgot which one) produce proteins that can open endoplasmic reticulum (ER) receptors that release...
I think apoptosis and autophagy play a role in fighting "invaders" (esp. viruses, don't know about bacteria), and the mitochondria play a role there.
My feeling is that approaches like these are far too simple to understand what's going on in ME. They seem to build on the belief ME is simple. I...
Thank you @Snow Leopard! I'll read it. I don't remember the discussion because I wasn't sick in 2013, but maybe I'll return to have a look. Edit:...
If THAT is true... :eek:
Do you mean that O2 uptake via the lungs and blood is normal, but the oxygen doesn't reach the cell where it is needed? (By the way, here...
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